Messages smeared in blood from survivors, or breathless diary entries recorded in someone’s last moments, warning an unlucky protagonist about critical plot or gameplay elements? Dead Space has those aplenty. It was a survival horror game at a time when the genre wasn’t in vogue.ĭead Space was more than happy to borrow a page from previous titles in the same genre. Dead Space came from a studio that hadn’t made an original IP yet, EA Redwood Studios.
A massive space opera RPG with romance and danger like Mass Effect or a musical party game for the gang like Rock Band was easy to sum up and easier to market. These were new titles and games that took interesting balls and ran with them in wonderful directions. A Dead Space surpriseĭead Space came out of Electronic Arts at an unexpected time, alongside titles like Mirror’s Edge and Mass Effect. The setting’s horror worked best on the USG Ishimura, with a silent protagonist and a small supporting cast. It wasn’t the Necromorphs or the Unitologists that doomed the world of Dead Space it was the inexorable scope creep that marched forward. or maybe with the expectation that there be a franchise at all. While Dead Space 3 famously fell apart, the franchise’s problems started with Dead Space 2.
A light flickers, you pause, and just when you finally feel close to safe, there’s a noise - the rattle of a vent, the sound of bone and flesh scraping against floor - and you remember you’re not safe, and you never were.Įven as you graduate to deadlier weapons and larger, more horrific enemies, the best settings in Dead Space are intimate, quiet and carefully balanced to provide the right amount of detail while still allowing the player to project themselves into that heavy, slow-moving engineer suit. His spinal indicator shows your health, which is often as comforting a light as you can get, and you can hear his breath rasping inside his helmet. The tensest moments of the Dead Space trilogy are usually centered around a very simple image: Isaac Clarke, in his bulky engineer suit, stands in a narrow, dark corridor of an abandoned spaceship.
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