in DEAD SPACE no one can hear you soil yourself

she's working for the GOVERNMENT (of Earth or whatever). it explained that the military ship actually came to destroy the Ishimura for taking the artifact off the planet and disrupting their EVIL experiment (presumably using TAX PAYERS DOLLARS!). SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE!!!1

Stayed up late to finish it. Liked it a lot, particularly the fast necromorphs - next to the wallhuggers, the monsters I had the most trouble killing. Kept forgetting to use kinesis on exploding cannisters, for the wallhuggers.

Dumb question, I'm sure, but now that I've played through and have a cleared game file, if I want to ramp up to Hard, do I start a new game and save OVER the Cleared Game spot? Or do I load that game?

I'd like to use the bonuses you get (10 power nodes, $50K in credit) for the next run at it.

cannisters seemed a little underpowered (and melee was REALLY underpowered)

Finished this yesterday. I stopped paying attention to the story a while back, but the final battles were pretty satisying, esp. the zero-g tunnel.

ok so dead space is on Targets "Black Friday" lineup for $30. People who dug it initially still digging it?

i thought it was quality from start to finish. top 3 for the year for sure.

good enough for me!

Started playing this tonight. I finished the first two chapters and then decided I needed a break. This is very intense, and I love the interface. It really raises the level of the stress when you can't jump out of the game to check your inventory. I hate using the store, or a mod machine, and wondering whether something is creeping behind my back. (Especially because something often is.)

I do feel like it suffers as the most recent big game I played was Fallout 3. Obviously they are doing different things, but it still pales by comparison.

I made the mistake of starting Fallout 3 before completing mission 11 in dead space. I hope I get around to finishing it someday.

target raincheck for this burning hole in pocket GET TO WORK STOCKBOYS AND RESTOCK ME MY GDDM GAME

Ok. So I'm walking a well lit hallway and my shadow is thrown on a door at the end of the hall. And at the end of the hall, suddenly, another, larger shadow, is superimposed on my shadow. So I swing around -- and there's nothing there. And I'm all like: FUCK YOU ALIEN FUCKER FUCK FUCKER MAKING ME SCARED

The demo didn't really grab me at all.

the demo was a shit representation of the game tho to be fair

def. picking this up when it gets sub-£20

tonight i try to give money to the target corporation to obtain this product once again. maybe i'll get lucky this time.

This game beat me. :(

i have unlocked the achievement of getting target to finally sell me this game :))))))))

ok this is intense. going to have to cut myself off at the end of chapter 2 and return to the warm cheerful embrace of fallout 3

how good is this game?!

pretty!!

really impressed with this. you always hear people talking about "elegant interfaces" and so on, but this actually is a notable feature with this, and as a result the immersion level is pretty impressive. also, legitimately creepy at points, which is more of an achievement than the jump out of your skin scares (which are also there, no question). thinking there will be more replay value than expected, because when i have had to replay a scene (which happens more than i'm used to - this game is hard at points), i wasn't able to use the same strategy AT ALL. using the vents to let things change position on you is a great idea, and executed really really well.

oh yeah and i think the shitty shitty demo probably did more to keep people from buying this than it did to enhance sales. totally unrepresentative of what makes this game great.

very impressed. very slick.

v. tense too, haven't been this tense crossing an empty room since MGS1

very solid game... not sure the whole "store" concept was needed, and rerunning the same maps was meh. also I totally lost track of the story about 3/4 through. but overall, pretty badass, sets a high bar for RE5.

on WII no one can hear you waggle

hmmmm

so this is not a port per se, but a wii developed game? or am i reading that wrong?

I think it's pretty much going to be a port with wii controls? Maybe some stuff will have to be changed a bit (obviously at least the graphics will be toned down a lot). Still, it's a good idea. They probably should have got it out on all platforms to begin with, like I'm sure Bioshock ps3 woulda sold a lot better if it came out at the same time as the 360 version. I'm curious to see how it turns out, but when I finally get around to playing Dead Space (soon maybe), I'm definitely going with the 360 version - need that HD atmosphere.

I don't know how much they'll have to be toned down: There's been a Wii release of Resident Evil 4, not exactly a gore-free game.

By toned down I wasn't speaking of gore, but of HD assets. Unfortunately the wii can't render a game with that nice HD artwork :(

super mario dead space

Wow, looks, sounds and plays great, pity about the difficulty. Started on medium, easily passed the first chapter and restarted on hard, only to completely run out of ammo and die often half way through the level. Restarted again on medium and it's just way too easy. It's possible to beat single monsters to death by punching them. Would appreciate a happy medium (or medium hard).

Perhaps I just can't handle zombies. Blazed through Half-Life 2 and Return to Castle Wolfenstein except for the zombie levels which gave me grief... Res. Evil 4 on the gamecube defeated me also. hmm.

Also the chick character sounds exactly like the girl from That 70's Show.

its actually set in that that 70s show universe - probably she is meant to be her great great great granddaughter

I still haven't played this game but it seems to have inspired one of the most disgraceful examples of video game writing in history

weird - not what I was expecting... apparently the wii Dead Space is "a ground-up Wii prequel with first-person on-rails gameplay."

http://wii.ign.com/articles/954/954895p1.html

restarted on hard, only to completely run out of ammo and die often half way through the level.

i found that too, took me over a dozen goes to get past the spaceship explosion bit in ch. 1, but I only had 8 ammo (and even had to track back halfway through the (thankfully empty) level to recharge my stasis). But I'm getting better at stocking up on ammo and being more conservative - stasis + clinical shots rather than wild firing. Being attacked from front and behind at once is still a complete bitch though.

The 'use a power node to unlock this door y/n' is a bit mean considering they're so expensive and you need so many to power up.

WHAT, YOU CAN STOMP ON THOSE GREEN BOXES AND GET GOODIES?!

shit.

funny you mention that, i loaded this up to show a friend the other day and had completely forgotten the controls. so i kept blasting the green boxes saying 'i'm sure there's another way of opening those but hey..'

melee should be more powerful in this

WHAT, YOU CAN STOMP ON THOSE GREEN BOXES AND GET GOODIES?!

lol. i had the same experience. i was thinking--do i need to start the entire game over now?

stompin on xboxes

i might skip back to my last but one save, end of ch 2, and take a stroll back through the hopefully empty level.

I picked this up for £12 2nd-hand.

playing it on hard and only at night makes you forget the obvious amalgam of Ressie 4 & other games and appreciate the atmosphere.

I picked it up as it kept getting kudos for the sound and I have to agree, they get a deserted haunted spacecraft to sound exactly like you think a deserted haunted spacecraft would sound like.

they are making a sequel, which needs multi-player like I need wings on my anus.

I think multiplayer would be pretty good actually. A bit like the AVP games, where your team has to be well organised to survive, ie you just can't all be blasting the shite out of everything.

played through this, and yeah, from a technical standpoint, the sound design is great. but imo, the sounds they employed are fairly generic and sometimes really cheesy. the kid whispering "twinkle, twinkle, little star..." is just UGGHHHHH.

and that plays on the TITLE SCREEN if you leave it idle long enough! (which I often did.)

Maybe one mans generic is another mans classic. I kinda like how it rips from all the great sci-fi films. the "twinkle, twinkle" bit is the wrong side of obvious, but its an EA game.

I feel that multiplayer will need to open up all the corridors and stop it getting claustrophobic. and will just end up as

Haven't played this in a while, loved the atmos but the gameplay became gratingly repetitive.

Got this for cheap today (£8.85 delivered from shopto.net) - just played through the first mission and I'm pretty hooked. Such a bad shot early on though that I'm going to be crying for ammo later on. Not sure about all the stomping. Great atmosphere though. Nice touch having the menu screen not pause the game.

Need to go back to Arkham Asylum now for some relative peace and transquility...

i gave up on this very quickly so long ago. i got as far as fighting the huge greenhouse boss (big round thing)
if i loaded this up now i wouldn't have a clue what was going on

i remember the 'shooting limbs off' quite satisfying though.

i don't remember a big greenhouse so i guess i didn't even get that far. lovely atmosphere (even tho it's yer standard grey dark metallic corridors), great weapons (shooting limbs, yes!), great HUD and look and feel in general, but gameplay just became far too repetitive.