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Why Dead Space is the Scariest Game Ever

October 22, 2008 in Reviews comments 11

We have seen many reviews for Dead Space, and most hail it as one of, if not THE scariest game ever. But why?

Popular Mechanics goes through 4 of the main reasons. Ranging from the Lighting and Shadows, Enemy Paths and AI, Real-Time actions, to the general chilling fearful atmosphere - Dead Space has all of the makings of a good typical survival-horror game, but it goes far beyond that.

Read the full review after the jump!

If invoking terror in the player is the primary goal of any survival horror game—such as the long-running Resident Evil and Silent Hill franchises—then Dead Space is a rousing success. It's also an impressive contribution to the sci-fi horror genre in general, better than most Hollywood attempts, with a surprisingly decent storyline and art direction that's as painstaking as it is disturbing. The setting is only part of what makes Dead SpaceEvent Horizon and Supernova have shown, dumping monsters into a spaceship isn't an automatic recipe for effective horror.
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  • 1
    Darknet Oct 22, 08
    ...and yet I find myself not all that scared. The first couple of parts were really terrifying but, when I got use to it, I wasn't really scared. The game has all the elements but, to me and my friend, it fails to build up anything. Not that it doesn't try to build up any suspense but it fails for me.

    Still a great game though.
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      Final Blade Oct 22, 08
      I 100% agree. Like most horror games, im not scared. But nevertheless its still a very good game though.
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    Deathsythe Oct 22, 08
    I haven't encountered any "piss your pants scary" moments yet, but that doesn't take away from the overall scariness of the game.

    There's creepy, there's scary, there's suspenseful, and there is downright gore.

    Dead Space has great attributes in all of those aspects.
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    Seeker X Oct 22, 08
    Playing it in the pitch black dark helps the game creep the shit out of me. I still get chills whenever I hear those little critters...it's worse when they actually grab me. Whether it's a constant scare, you start to get used to it...since you still are a one man army (hell of a soldier for an engineer too), your guns will always take care of the problem.

    This would be speaking from experience, only game that ever really had me on my toes every single waking moment when I played the game was for Siren on the PS2. I'm waiting till another game comes around to do the same thing.
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      Final Blade Oct 22, 08
      Most of the time I play games with the light off and it doesn't help much for me. Maybe people are different and more scared.
      • 0
        Deathsythe Oct 23, 08
        I try to play with the lights off, but generally speaking my roommate is playing Halo not 4 feet away from me.

        He's great, he never makes fun of me for jumping like a little girl, though he laughs at the constant swearing.

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        Seeker X Oct 23, 08
        Maybe, that or the TV set/ Speaker set may not be big enough.
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          Final Blade Oct 24, 08
          What does that have to do with anything? Im just not scared, i've seen far to many supposed "Scary" movies in theatre's with the sounds huge and still doesn't scary me. Sorry Im just not scared by any games or movies.
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          Seeker X Oct 24, 08
          There's a fine difference between playing and watching. That being said, there's also ANOTHER difference between a standard TV with just the TV speakers and Big screen TV with Surround sound.

          And if you play Dead Space with that and high volume and you tell me you don't even flinch ONCE, you're *bleep*ing bullshitting through your teeth...not like you need those sets to actually flinch anyways.

          Though maybe you mean the type of "I'm sleeping with the light on" scare...it's obviously hard for any game OR movie to do that. We're not talking about that, we're obviously talking about any chills or jumps or the creeping out in a game, which is unavoidable when you're in the right setting.
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    Blackfalcon Oct 22, 08
    Wow, sounds very innovative, and very well put together. They clearly did a great job, but it's not my knd of game.
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    HisServant77 Oct 24, 08
    I think my scarer is broken because I just don't get scared of games like this, or any other . . .

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