I remember a time when people were talking about how amazing Dead el espacio 2 was, and while it’s not a bad game por any means… I’m sorry, I just don’t get why people call it the best in the series. Well, if it was this o Dead el espacio 3, I could understand. But honestly, my favorito! in the series is and will always be the original Dead Space.
Dead el espacio follows Isaac Clarke, a shy little boy who travels with a rescue team to the Ishimura, a massive el espacio mining ship that went radio silent some time ago. Isaac came because his wife, Nicole, is on the ship, and could still be alive. But once they land on the ship, it is eventually clear that the ship is a lost cause, as it is running with violent alien creatures formed from the corpses of the humans onboard, and Isaac now has to find a way off the ship using only the mining equipment onboard the ship. Unlike Dead el espacio 2, Dead el espacio 1 is quite, with each small sound freaking tu out. Just hearing a pipe fall in a distant location can cause tu to piss yourself. Dead el espacio uses silence real well. It won’t take long before Necromorphs are running at you, ready to tear tu apart. The game gives tu a ton of great weapons, like the Ripper, the Plasma Cutter, The Line Gun, The Flamethrower sucks, so throw it away, and so much more. But tu aren’t just limited to your weapons. tu also have Telekinesis powers. There are only two, but work well for puzzle solving and dealing with enemies. There’s the normal Telekinesis which allows tu to mover things around, as well as fuego them forward. The other one allows tu to slow down things, from closing doors to enemies, which will make fighting them off much easier. Using the telekinesis when fighting enemies also works well, as tu can send pipes at them and impale them, which is a ton of fun to do. And the game is just all kinds of creepy with it’s enemy designs. Something about seeing the body contort and deform just to fit the monster that is controlling the human body always disturbed and fascinated me. I think it was because I watched The Thing when I was a young kid, which probably was not a good idea. Just looking at the Necromorphs disgusts but interests me. It’s like looking at a really, really bad car accident. And I mean that in a good way… kinda.
Dead el espacio was a true classic among the horror genre, tu know, before Dead el espacio 3 fucking killed it. It was creepy, atmospheric, and just an en general, general fun experience for me. And it’s a shame that the franchise died, but, that’s what happens when tu got EA breathing down your neck, am I right?