EA is on fire. They ripped the "survival horror" genre right outta Capcom. Where Resident Evil 5 was slow and repetitive, Dead Space felt fast and exciting. The best way to describe Dead Space to the uneducated, it's the feature films "Alien" and "Event Horizon" slammed into a blender, resulting in a fresh take on the aging video game genre.
I finally played a good chunk of the original Dead Space. It's presentation is stellar. Controls and gameplay are polished. It feels so cool to wonder around the bowels of a tin can space ship, jumpin' around in zero gravity and blasting away monsters. You could probably hunt down a copy of this original treasure for 20 bucks.
Today, Dead Space 2 arrives on store shelves. I have a PlayStation 3 and luck be told, for the same price of either the X-Box 360 or PS3 editions, Sony's gathered all the riches. The Nintendo Wii "exclusive" Dead Space: Extraction comes bundled with the PS3 edition, complete with new goodies such as Move support, HD visuals and trophies. Hell, the game is literally the first real killer app for Sony's motion controller. I haven't played Dead Space 2 yet, I'm waiting until I finish the original. However, I have played Extraction, which serves as a prequel to the series. What can I say? Yeah, It's worth picking up the Move bundle to play this on-rails, space shooter. It's fun, fun stuff!
All this space horror is getting me all nostalgic for one title. EA's first venture into space survival horror. Heck, it literally was the original survival horror game, long before Resident Evil.
"IGN has called it the first "fully formed vision of survival horror as we know it today," citing its balance of action and adventure, limited ammunition, weak weaponry, vulnerable main character, feeling of isolation, storytelling through journals, graphic violence, and use of dynamically triggered music—all of which were characteristic elements of later games in the survival horror genre." - Wikipedia Entry
EA released Dynamix's Project Firestart, an explosive Commodore 64 exclusive title which is amazing. I played the hell out of it as a kid and it scarred the crap outta me! It's wonderful stuff and worth taking a look at through the wonder of emulation.
Happy hunting!
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