![]() ![]() I watched one of the livestreams with the new developers and they don’t seem to be precious about the game at all. Sure, there are indie games and some earlier titles that are worse but in terms of a game with a lot of money and a big publisher behind it Dead Space should have been a lot better than it is.Īnd yet strangely I’m still interested in the remake. Games Inbox: Will Starfield be the biggest Xbox game ever?ĭead Space is nowhere near the worst game I’ve ever played but is definitely one of the worst survival horrors, at least one with any kind of budget. Compare this to the endless invention of Resident Evil 4 and I’m surprised they weren’t too ashamed to make the comparison themselves. It certainly doesn’t distinguish itself when it comes to the missions, which are painfully repetitive and dull, as you slowly wander from one end of the ship to the other fixing seemingly every bit of machinery there’s ever been you can almost hear the developer’s desperation at not being able to think of anything else to do. That maybe was a technical limitation, I’m not sure, but it ruined the one chance the game had of being its own thing. ![]() The one moment that could’ve been good is the zero-G sections but they don’t work at all how you expect them to and are no fun at all. Playing the game it’s all painfully competent, with nothing being terrible, nothing being great, and absolutely nothing being original. There’s some body horror elements that are kind of neat but compared to something like the xenomorph, the predator, or the monsters of Silent Hill they just look like background characters from a heavy metal album cover. They scream and jump scare effectively but they’re just animated corpses, so they have nothing to say and visually they’re very generic. I also found the necromorphs an extremely uninteresting enemy. You see it a lot in Rockstar games from the time, where there’s barely any pretence that it has anything to with the rest of the game, they just wanted to recreate that scene from Scarface or Goodfellas or, in this case, Alien. ![]() ![]() It is, in fact, one of the worst examples of a style of game, prevalent in the Xbox 360 era, where the only ambition is to mimic a particular movie scene. ![]()
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