Even considering the initial Necromorph attack, the creature pursues you without skipping a beat and once you finally escape it, you’re left alone in a foreign place without your crew.
Even from the moment you enter the Ishimura there’s an air of dread from the damaged rooms and smeared blood trails, there’s so much to take in (and with zero understanding of the situation). That said, Dead Space is a unique experience that uses its atmosphere to amplify tension throughout its formalist structure. In a formalistic sense, Dead Space is a “run and gun” game Issac is able to use a variety of weapons to take on the Necromorphs as he moves from objective to objective. It is then up to Issac to make every effort he can to reconnect with his crew and get out alive. Shortly after docking the Ishimura all goes to hell Isaac and crew are attacked and split up by a Necromorph, the alien lifeforms responsible for the station’s devastation. Said signal is coming from the USG Ishimura, where Isaac’s girlfriend also happens to be. While its sequels would become those action-horror games with a greater emphasis on the former rather than the latter, the first Dead Space is a horrifying masterpiece.ĭeveloped by the late Visceral Studios, Dead Space puts you in the shoes of Isaac Clarke, an engineer sent with a team to answer a distress signal. The first entry of the Dead Space trilogy celebrates its 10 year anniversary today. One of those games is none other than Dead Space.
There are plenty of titles in gaming that one can find this and wave their finger at, but there are also those titles that obtain a superb balance within action-horror. The Ishimura-style atmosphere is terrific yet, again, merely dabbled in.We tend to talk a lot about horror nowadays having too many jumpscares or how so many works throughout the genre are too “in-your-face” with violence, taking away from the suspense and dread of stories. One seemingly invincible zealot that stalks the player à la Pyramid Head has a lot of potential, but again barely does anything of note and is dispatched in a most underwhelming fashion. The self-maiming Unitologist splinter group is a great concept, but never gets much screen time, while its mysterious leader is barely present in the plot. It’s not just that it’s a short adventure - nobody expects a DLC add-on to last another ten hours - it’s that not a single idea presented in the game is fully formed, existing instead as merely a surface level showcase of what a good idea might possibly look like. General briefness is by far Awakened‘s biggest problem.
As one of the creepiest enemy types across the entire series, the Pack’s reappearance is welcome, even if it is generally brief. As well as the new cultists, we get a variant of the Stalker Necromorph, and the Pack return from Dead Space 2 to give Isaac yet more dead children to slaughter.
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