![]() ![]() Light is so scarce and jump scares are a certainty, I chose to turn off the oxygen. The threat of them induce some interesting choices.Īt one point, there was a choice to transfer power from either life support or the lights to power a switch. Those spider-like limbs are just as creepy. Those necromorph monsters in the game remind me a lot the ones in the Thing, actually. The overall vibe of the game is a mix of movies like Aliens, Event Horizon and the Thing. The visuals clued me in that lights will periodically go and bad things will happen. Right from the start, scenes are dimly lit with the only light coming from console screens and the future equivalent of yellowing florescent lighting. ![]() Speaking of the dark, moody and maybe brooding style of the game, the future doesn’t seem so bright. Glad I’m playing without the blotches of brown and gray my old monitor would pump out for this game. With light so scarce in most scenes, the monitor shows so much detail in the low light. The true blacks, HDR color and insane contrast ratio are key for a moody game like this. Going Dark in Dead Space Another Ominous HallwayĪs dark as the game is, I really benefit from playing it in front of my Alienware OLED gaming monitor. Game is short enough (16 hour estimate and I completed in 17), so I settled to play it all on my gaming PC. Problem is actually playing the game has horrible pauses when turning. I was able to setup the EA App and install Dead Space just fine on my Deck. There was even a Steam Deck fix for shader pre-caching, but that won’t help my EA Play Pro version of the game. The remake just came out this year, but long enough ago that all the prerequisite patches are in place. ![]() I try to rotate between the various game subscription services I have, so it was time for an EA Play Pro game. Choosing Dead Space on my Backlog Zero G Puzzle Solving Loved all the world building Sci Fi when not scared by the creatures jumping out at me from vents and the ceiling. I never played the original, so I’m glad there’s a remake now as part of my EA Play Pro subscription. After my long journey in Hogwarts Legacy, I went darker and finally played Dead Space. ![]()
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