Publisher: Electronic Arts.
Developer: Visceral Games
Platform(s): Xbox 360, Playstation 3, PC
Genre: Survival Horror
Rating: Mature
ESRB Content Descriptors: Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, Strong Language
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The Scoop: Resident Evil is dead; I think we can all agree with that. No matter how good Resident Evil 4 and 5 were, and they were good, no one can say that the series hasn’t severely detracted from its horror roots since Code Veronica was released a decade ago. It seems that there is a tradeoff when it comes to horror games, you can’t keep the horror and the gameplay at the same time (let’s be honest, The original Resident Evil and Silent Hill games had subpar gameplay to say the least).
It wasn’t until 2008 that bloodbath and virtual baby slaughtering experts Visceral Games challenged that idea with the original Dead Space; a game that took the rather excellent gameplay style of Resident Evil 4 and 5 and combined it with one of the scariest gaming atmospheres since Silent Hill 2. Now just over two years later Visceral returns to bring our favorite limb-chopping space engineer, Isaac Clark, out of retirement to again save the galaxy once again from the Necromorph contagion.
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