I like gore, but do you have to use that over-the-shoulder-view all the time? hate that.

Okie, a very quick first look. Only played for an 45min or so.

I definitely like it, well, maybe a better way is to say I dont dislike it as I've too little to actually make my mind about it. The graphics are pretty nice, obviously, lot has been put into the lighting and shadows. Runs very well, can have everything on high and no stuttering at all. The HUD is pretty innovative. There's no traditional HUD at all, you see your health from your characters back, where there are 4 lights; lose one health, one light goes out. The inventory, map, briefing etc. etc. screens are all projected as holograms right in-front of you, I like this one alot as you can keep on doing what you do while you listen to someone speaking to you or you are watching video logs as as soon as you need to use your weapon, the hologram goes away, BUT the audio still plays.

The horror element is the usual, atleast for the 45min I tried it. You walk around in the corridors of the spaceship and see & hear things that make you jump once in awhile. And of course, there's the mandatory "loud sound in another direction, monster coming from the other"-moments. But it's ok, I couldnt imagine it done any other way, tho who knows what the story brings. :hmm:

For EA game, this one has TONS of gore. Mutilated corpses everywhere, lots of blood and you can shoot/punch/kick limbs off the monsters/corpses. It is even encouraged to shoot off the limbs of your enemies as it gives extra damage and naturally it's much easier to kill the baddie by shooting it's legs off and running next to it to introduce Mr.Boot to it's neck, decapitating the poor thingy. :lol:

More when I get change to play it more.

I played Dead Space to approximately half-way thorugh in two sittings (then I got stuck and had to check from a walkthorugh). By then, I'd gotten bored, then annoyed, then like I'd been ripped-off. Then I uninstalled it and threw it it the bin,heh. A bit extreme reaction perhaps since it isn't all that bad game as such. Graphics are nice and especially the sounds are good, for instance on level three in the engine compartment. The overhead camera and controls are yet another clumsy and clunky console ports but nothing you can't live with. It's the whole package that fails-a cheap rip-off of System Shock 2 and Bioshock for fanboys, very short with practically zero replay value. Nothing about 'horror' or 'survival', just 'Boo, lights out, emergency lights kick in and here comes the freaks',I mean 'monsters'. In the end (or midway) I couldn't care less for the ship's crew, my buddies or even myself enough to see how the game ends. Waste of time and money.

You started with a 10mm pistol in the original Fallout. I think in Fallout 2 you started with a spear...I remember jumping for glee when I found a pipe rifle.

hmmm that doesn't sound too bad. Any idea if Red Alert 3 will work this way?

Just did a quick read on the FarCry 2 thing. So you can 'revoke' an activation if you uninstall it properly. OK but I'm curious about how one would handle a situation like a hard drive failure or something that would otherwise prevent a 'proper' uninstall. That's when you have to call right? At least this isn't too bad. Apparently you can have it installed on up to 3 different pc's. I wonder if lan play is possible with the same copy. That would be convenient. Roll out some coop games, EA, for god's sake. So many games out that are begging to be played cooperatively.


AH HAH! I knew I couldn't be the only one who hates that view.

Pretty good so far then.:hmm:

When you're further into the game, can you let us know if they are 'cheap' scares or actually decent effects that really make you sh*t yerself.:)

There already was few nice effects with lights & shadows. It's not the usual, when you are 1m from a corner, you see a shadow move just behind the corner. But at times you wont even notice these things, but they are there. For example, I was walking down a long corridor with multiple ways to go, I turned right and moved onwards. Suddenly in the faaaaaaaaaaaaar end of the corridor I saw a shape move behind the corner just for a brief second. But yeh, I hope there will be some decent scare tactics too, tho like I said, I cant really think of anything. The mood is pretty good, feels abit like Aliens. :hmm:

Yeah, many say it's Event Horizon meets Aliens. If so, winner.

Dead space should have been doom 3. I hate the DRMs from EA but if you can crack it then I say Dead space is the best. But MEPC has alot of bugs especially with X-fi cards so maybe Dead Space will have similar bugs. They gear these games for Console and then translate it for PC. PC version a full of bugs. So its a gamble.

I say wait abit a few months. Till they iron out all the issues.

At least by then you will have a crack to use so you don't have to worry about the DRMs screwing up your computer.

Good hunting.:up:




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