- Publisher: Electronic Arts
- Release Date: Oct 20, 2008
- Also On: PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
User Score
Generally favorable reviews- based on 1937 Ratings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 1,578 out of 1937
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Mixed: 243 out of 1937
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Negative: 116 out of 1937
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Mar 18, 2014There's some promise to this but on PC the controls are too annoying to be playable. It's also not scary at all, not sure who really found this scary. The challenge is turning your big, clumsy protagonist in the right direction in time, nothing more. The game is way too linear and the encounters are too predictable. It could probably have been good but it ends up being a much worse copy of Doom3.
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Dec 10, 2013The game is broken. Few hours into the game you will encouter a gamebreaker that is still not fixed so save your money for something else. That is if you manage at all to get that far cause the game glitches like crazy. Cant believe this kind of ***t can be even released at all but there you go. Stay. Away.
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Feb 9, 2014
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Mar 13, 2011POS Port. I found the controls unplayable on the PC, which prevented me from going any further than 10 minutes into the story line, which didn't seem to have much depth. Waste of 10 bucks.
Consoles are killing the PC gaming industry with flub like this... -
Oct 14, 2013
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Dec 28, 2013Unplayable due to bad controls. I can't even begin to explain how f*cked up the mouse movement is. It's either so slow that you can hardly shoot at enemies before they kill you, or so fast that you spin around three times. I tried several fixes and then just gave up.
The moral here is not to pay money for E.A. games, even if it's only 3$. -
Jul 11, 2013
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Jan 31, 2013
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May 24, 2013Unplayable on PC in my opinion. The camera is really akward, it makes the game very unpleasant to play. It's very difficult to aim properly, frustrating.
I can't believe it's a 2008 game, looks like a 1999 game, terrible graphics. I have a i7, 8GB RAM, Nvidia 560GTx, etc, no it's not performance issues, the game really sucks. -
Nov 8, 2013
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Jan 16, 2014**** impossible i walk into a room and all the sudden 6 **** alieans spawn and i have no ammo so i cant get past a certain mission this game is incredibly overrated and overhyped it is terrible. terrible gameplay terrible srry ass story seriously **** this game
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Jan 6, 2011
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Dec 14, 2012
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Jul 9, 2011I consider this game to be unplayable. You basically can't see anything because of the ridiculous FOV setting and the fact that the camera is so uselessly placed that the character obstructs half the screen. Also the view controls are sluggish and unintuitive. Maybe this game is better on a console and it's just a bad port. In any case on the PC it's horrible. Avoid it.
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May 7, 2011
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Jul 21, 2011
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Oct 9, 2011
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Mar 12, 2012Scary as hell when you cant see anything because character fills half of the screen. Turning and moving around is slow and controls suck big time. I know its wrong to give points without playing the game through but for me game was unplayable and that gives me reason to say what I think in here.
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LukeWJan 27, 2009
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gwarbobOct 27, 2008Literally Unplayable. The PC controlls are hideous. The mouse control in the menus is so bad I gave up trying to rebind the keys in frustration. After half an hour of trying to play this i finally uninstalled the game. The controlls would be barable for turn based combat, for an fps/tps this is a joke. Unplayable. Worse than Scarface.
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EarthtoEANov 15, 2009
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Sep 15, 2013
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May 12, 2011
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NormanH.Dec 10, 2008
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May 25, 2012
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IkimonoFeb 27, 2009
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nickpMay 22, 2009
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BryanT.Dec 4, 2008
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MarcCJun 13, 2009This is a waste of time and money. Its bad enough that metascore give it a 86. If you like that you should try to play other games druken, its the same feelin. The smooth and soft mouse-control sucks the last bit of fun out of this... Game... and the 3.-Person view is nothing i need for a shooter. Again a EA-Fail.
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Jul 29, 2013An unplayable game on PC because of the awkward camera controls. It's clumsy and frustrating to move around, and very hard to aim at enemies. A bad port to PC from consoles, stay away.
Awards & Rankings
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This is a highly recommended game for science fiction and survival horror fans, with its claustrophobic atmosphere and horrible creatures.
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Overall, Dead Space is an extraordinary game with tons of shock value and action to whet any fan's appetite for some time, and with a campaign that lasts a steady 10-12 hours, that’s plenty of time to get lost aboard the Ishimura.
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PC Zone UKDead Space is a potentially great game that's hamstrung by an attempt to completely ape a console controller with a mouse and keyboard. [Dec 2008, p.58]