Tell them, my song.

Dead Space takes off exactly where the prequel movie Dead Space – Downfall ended. So when you’ve seen the movie, you already know what awaits you onboard the Ishimura. Since the graphics of the game are actually better and of higher quality than the ones used in the movie, the game draws you even faster into its nightmarish world than the movie could ever hope: I’ve just finished the first chapter and I’m still shitting my pants.

Dead Space is a nicely done and extremely gory survival horror game with a very dense atmosphere. To finish my x meets y comments for today, the game so far feels a lot like Doom 3 meets System Shock, which in this case is a good thing and the mixed concepts of those two classics work very well together.

I am not a big fan of the third person perspective, though. I don’t think that any game actually gains anything by using a third person perspective, and in my not so humble opinion first person perspective are much more immersive and tense than anything else. However, Dead Space still fares very well despite of this and I have heard rumors that some people for incomprehensible reasons actually like the third person mode. Must have something to do with Lara Croft’s physical appearance, I presume.

Anyway, that much is certain: You want to have Dead Space in your collection of games.

German buyers: I’m sure you do not want to buy this one in Germany; I bet the German version will be censored like crazy. Do yourself a favor and buy an imported copy.

I’ve just watched this prequel movie to the game Dead Space. I will write something about the game when I’ve played it a bit – it arrived together with Far Cry 2 yesterday, but firstly Far Cry 2 was so good that I didn’t want to look at anything else and secondly I wanted to watch this movie first.

Dead Space – Downfall is a manga movie, and it basically is a comic version of Ghosts of Mars meets Event Horizon.

On a deep space mining planet, an ancient alien artifact is found. Disturbed by the human colonists, it comes back to live and whatever it is that had been dormant inside of it, is now taking over the bodies of the colonists and transforms them into something else. While the mining colony is being slaughtered by the alien force, the artifact itself is transported to the space ship Ishimura that has set a course for Earth. Of course, the alien forces have not been left behind on the planet, but have found a way onboard the Ishimura. A hopeless and very bloody and gory fight for survival begins.

Sure, there’s nothing new in that story line, but it doesn’t have to be. Dead Space – Downfall is great sci-fi-horror flic with a dense atmosphere and everything in it that a genre fan wants to see. If you’re the target audience, this movie won’t disappoint you. I hope this little jewel will catch the attention of one of the better movie directors and producers – provided that it ends up in the right hands, I’m sure that it would make a great feature film.