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| From: Electronic Arts
Category: Video Games
List Price: $49.99
Buy New: $39.00
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Rating:  71 reviews
Sales Rank: 994
Format: Dvd-rom
Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows Xp
Genre: shooter_action_games
ESRB: Mature
Media: DVD-ROM
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 17 - 20 years
Operating System: Windows Vista
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: 19043
Model: 19043
UPC: 014633190434
EAN: 0014633190434
ASIN: B0019C4MU2
Release Date: October 20, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| • | Dead Space for PC is sure to please any action, adventure gamer looking for a bloody battle against deadly aliens | | • | Gameplay takes place on the USG Ishimura where the crew has been infected by an alien scourge | | • | Neutralize the attacking enemies by shearing off limbs with powerful weapons | | • | Telekinetic powers allow you to pick up objects (even the aliens own severed arms and legs) and hurl them at your advancing enemies | | • | Battling enemies and solving puzzles takes on new challenges and present ingenious opportunities with the Zero-G gameplay |
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Amazon.com Product Description
Dead Space from EA is sure to please any action-adventure gamer looking for a bloody battle against deadly aliens. Dead Space for PC begins when a massive mining ship, the USG Ishimura, comes in contact with a mysterious alien artifact and suddenly loses its communications with Earth. Engineer Isaac Clarke is sent to repair 
Deep Space pits Isaac Clarke against deadly aliens. View larger. | 
Zero-G game play allows you to walk on walls and the ceiling. View larger. | 
EA delivers an incredibly frightening experience with state-of-the-art graphics and effects. View larger. | 
Neutralize the attacking enemies with weapons and telekinetic powers. View larger. | the Ishimura's communications, but arrives to find a floating vessel that has become a complete bloodbath. The crew is mutilated and infected with an ancient alien scourge. Clarke's repair mission is transformed to one of survival as he fights to save himself and return the artifact to the planet at any cost. Fight with Weapons and Telekinesis
The alien hordes are incredibly resilient. You'll have to find creative ways to neutralize the attacking enemies by shearing off limbs with powerful weapons. And when the ammo runs out you'll be thankful that you can use your telekinetic powers to pick up objects (even the aliens' own severed arms and legs) and hurl them at your advancing enemies. Graphics, Effects, and Sound Increase the Horror
EA delivers an incredibly frightening experience with state-of-the-art graphics and effects, an audio system that will have you jumping out of your seat, and a truly horrific atmosphere that is permeated with death, mutilation, and despair. You'll have to be resilient to slash through the alien onslaught and stop this virulent scourge. As you explore the ship, the tragic story of the USG Ishimura will unfold in gory detail as you discover frantic logs from the hideously transformed crew in their final days. True Zero-G Effects
You'll be able to take full advantage of zero gravity in Deep Space. Battling enemies and solving puzzles takes on new challenges and present ingenious opportunities with the Zero-G game play. You can use zero gravity to create your own path around obstacles by walking on walls and the ceiling. Leap across vast distances or change your perspective to gain a strategic advantage over your enemies.
| Minimum System Requirements | | Operating System | Microsoft Windows XP / Vista (with latest Service Packs) | | CPU | 2.8 GHz processor or faster | | Memory | 1 GB for Windows XP; 2 GB for Vista | | Hard Drive Space | 7 GB of free space | | Graphics Hardware | DirectX 9.0c compatible video card. Shader 3.0 required. Video card must have 256 MB or more memory and contain of these chipsets: NVIDIA GeForce 6800, ATI X1600 pro, or better | | Sound | DirectX 9.0c compatible sound card |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 66 more reviews...
 Let's keep our focus on the game, yeah? December 5, 2008
superjerry (Upland, CA)
If you can get around the DRM, Dead Space is a real winner.
I love science fiction movies. Dead Space just REEKS of sci-fi horror--images of Alien, Event Horizon, even Sunshine come to mind--and I for one don't mind the stench. Sure, you're in an empty ship full of baddies. You hear things. You shoot things. It's scary. Blah blah, it's all been done before, right?
Who cares? You're saying you're sick of eating filet mignon because you've had it before? WHY WOULD YOU. There are some formulas that happen to work all the time.
Dead Space is minimalist when it needs to:
- no HUD
- clumsy mechanics
- no jumping.. you're wearing magnetic boots after all
and maximalist every time else:
- excellent sound
- beautiful--playable--graphics, even at maximum settings on my modest computer
- attention to detail: What do you mean I have to walk slowly through hundreds of square feet of sprawling, alien flesh? What do you mean I can't hear things when I'm in a vacuum? What do you mean I can't instantly turn 180 degrees? This is madness!
Being scared shatless as you clumsily lumber through a derelict spaceship--engineers aren't athletes, you know--makes for a fun game indeed.
It also helps that I played Resident Evil 4 and was very used to the controls / perspective. The controls are only messy when there's a bunch of adrenaline rushing through your veins and you can't seem to aim your gun at the right spot to sever a flailing, missile-firing tentacle. But again, if it were easy, it wouldn't be as scary.
Anyway, find a way to get around the DRM. The programmers who put the time into this game deserve the support. Sadly, the anti-piracy bigshots get their profit as a side-effect.
Sucks you in, keeps you playing December 2, 2008
M. Daneker (Spinnerstown, Pa USA)
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
First, I should address that my notebook plays everything but EA games. Something about them. I can run Fallout 3, Oblivion, The Witcher all fine, but Crysis, Dead Space will not run.
I had to put it on my tower. I've got an AMD 4X2.6ghz Black Edition with 4g of ram and a Samphire HD card with 512 DDR3.
The game loads fast, plays clean with all video settings on high. The only thing is I lower the resolution to 1280X800 because teh 1440X900 native res of my monitor makes the mouse feel sluggish. But that's not the graphics, that the mouse tracking. The lower your resolution the faster your mouse will track.
The game unfolds like a movie, but in good way. The story leaves you separated from your shipmates on a space station where something horrible has happened. You need to power up the station, get parts and fix the ship -- but that's just not going to happen.
The main thing you'll see is no HUD. The screen is always just the game, your "life" is the blue fluid on your back, when it goes down you are dying.
The only issue I have is the limitation of powering up. The set-up is very much like Bioshock, you collect credits and use vending machines to buy things you need, then you collect parts and upgrade your weapons at work-benches. But either I'm not good at it or there's few parts.
Basically the game lets you be as strong as it wants you to be, but you have some control over which weapons is strongest and if you invest in weapons or armor. You Also have some say in the level up -- like more oxygen or stronger defense? But, there's a set number of enemies to fight so you can't build your levels like an RPG.
The limited control the game gives you to level up is the most frustrating thing. Otherwise the game feels like a cross between FEAR and Bioshock -- that's not a bad thing.
But this is a story as much as a game, you watch and participate, but you never really take control.
 What??????????? November 28, 2008
J. Byrns (Indiana)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Will not play for me and now I have a $50 game that I can not return. This extra copy protection is crashing my system! Why not make these games with out all the garbage????
 Immersive play makes this captivating November 26, 2008
D. Sheppard (San Francisco, CA USA)
1 out of 6 found this review helpful
First, for all the whining about DRM and SecureBlahBlahBlah, I have not had a single problem with install or running it. Of course, I haven't tried un-installing it yet, so who knows? :)
But the game is AWESOME, it pulls you in like watching a movie, and the details as you explore the ship are well thought out. All the Decks have extensive unique details, and the holographic overlay when you review your inventory or get video messages is brilliant!
If there is any complaint, the controls seemed to be sluggish, but I suspect that is by design since as your character gets weak, his aim degrades, he moves slower, and he starts gasping and bitching more.
For the BEST experience, put on a pair of headphones when you play. The ambient sounds are excellent and there are some soft voices that you won't really understand without a headset.
Amazing atmosphere and a lot of fun November 22, 2008
Pingmeister (Santa Cruz, CA)
A well-designed horror-sci-fi shooter with some remarkable Hitchcock-esque tension on a regular basis. It has been quite a while since a game has made me jump the way this one has. Even some of my favorites (System Shock 2, Bioshock) didn't do as good a job with the startling moments the way Dead Space does.
Despite its very non-PC control scheme the game controls well once you get used to it. In fact it is probably the first time since Tomb Raider that I have felt like I could control a 3rd person character as well as a first-person.
An exceptional game.
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