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Dead Space: Where's The Scare?

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Aimforthehead.co.uk writes: "Where's the scare? Well, I'm not quite sure. Dead Space isn't quite horror, and it isn't quite survival, either. In an obvious attempt to revive the genre, it hits a bizarre middle ground; too many clichés and too much ammo make it difficult to be truly terrified. Yet with that said, EA's third-person shooter has its occasional scares, it's occasional "oh shit!" and its occasional "what the fuck!?" -- it's just too bad that you'll probably find these in your usual daily soap opera, too."
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farhsa2008 - 213 days ago
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give me RE5 anyday
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Flipgeneral - 212 days 23 hours ago
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1.1 - RE5 is great
But it's definitely not in the horror genre at all. RE5 has turned the iconic RE-scare-you-to-your-bones franchise into an action one.

I have to disagree with the author. Dead Space was great, it was suspenseful to me, and a very polished and well thought out game.
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GameOn - 212 days 22 hours ago
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Dead Space is much more up my street than Resi. I'm into space stuff. I aint a Treky tho.
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be_wrong - 212 days 21 hours ago
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re5's great but it wasn't scary let alone that it was just guns blazing left to right, even re1-4 wasn't that scary. i think dead space hit the mark and it's really a under appriciated game.
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gaffyh - 212 days 6 hours ago
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Dead Space = More survival horror than RE5, RE5 was not scary in the least.
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Red Pill - 213 days ago
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REmake on gamecube, 'nuff said.
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Arsenic13 - 213 days ago
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That gave me 6 months of nightmares when i was young.
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Red Pill - 212 days 23 hours ago
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Yeah re5's really good. Not scary though.
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reddybrek - 212 days 23 hours ago
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Dead Space is fun, but not scary.
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kalistyles - 212 days 22 hours ago
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I just finished Dead Space. Although it wasn't super scary, it did have its moments. Its one of the better games in its genre to come out in a while. I liked it a lot. The best think about the game though is its controls. They were really good. I gave the game a 9 out of 10.
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the4time2doctor0 - 212 days 17 hours ago
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i agree
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UziSuicide - 212 days 21 hours ago
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Hmmm, I actually thought Deep Space did the trick with the atmosphere, you could feel the chill of space almost at times. Bits I didn't like were the arcade sequences that were no doubt chucked in to mix things up, but these were pretty scarce.

Each to their own I guess. I thought it worked really well, great control system, health level affecting movement & animations, sound, lighting. Not the best game ever but still one of the best ones in it's genre.
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reddybrek - 212 days 21 hours ago
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7 - Deep Space?
Did you mean dead space?
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Red Pill - 212 days 6 hours ago
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Silent Hill too, I can barely play those games
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