Thread: Dead Space
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Old 24-07-2010, 02:27 PM   #4 (permalink)
Sir Chewbury Gubbins
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Toby Newman the Monkey was never naughty:
> On 2010-04-21, Sir Chewbury Gubbins <chewbury.gubbins@nelefa.org.invalid> wrote:
>> Toby Newman the Monkey was never naughty:
>>> I've just finished the Dead Space: Extraction campaign and loved it.
>>> Is Dead Space up to the same high standard?
>>>
>>> I'm a bit worried that it's going to be too scary for me - At least
>>> with DS:E you don't have to force yourself forward, that part's
>>> automatic. Is Dead Space full of foreboding dark rooms that you have
>>> to force yourself into before getting shocked by something jumping out
>>> of a closet? I'm hopeless with that stuff. I'm hoping it's more
>>> action/horror (think Aliens) rather than suspense/horror (think
>>> Alien).

>>
>> I think you'll be alright - I started playing and did the first couple
>> of hours before deciding it was a game I needed hi-def for. Now that I
>> have a new telly I'll be starting again. There are a few shock moments
>> early on, but nothing to compare with the likes of Eternal Darkness or
>> Project Zero/Fatal Frame.

>
> I played the demo last night and actually found it quite hard
> targetting individual moving limbs using a thumbstick and 3rd-person
> view. I only had two goes but wasn't able to get past the first fight
> in either of them.


I think there's an auto-targetty thingy, but I could be wrong

Choobs

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