PLAY review: Dead Space
Weaving together elements from BioShock, Half-Life 2, and some of the best examples of sci-fi cinema, EA’s Dead Space is a real patchwork quilt of a game as well as one of the most engrossing – and blood-spattered – survival-horror titles of recent times.
It all kicks off with protagonist Isaac Clarke, a space-engineer heeding an ominous distress call from the intergalactic mining ship USG Ishimura. Once onboard, Isaac and his two compatriots discover the ship’s gothic innards have been infested with a plague of murderous life forms straight out of the body-shock nightmares of David Cronenberg. As Isaac searches for a way to escape the Ishimura alive, he begins to unravel the grisly fate of its crew and the origins of its hideous intruders.
