Dead Space Comments by Rob Fahey

And let's not forget "Lewis and Clarke" name is probably some sort of a "nod" to explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, who led a first American overland expedition to the Pacific coast and back, so the chances of Isaac Clarke being a nod to EH rescue ship's name are even slimmer. C-c-c, Rob:)

Nylkran - there y'are; I told you I read it somewhere ;)

Event Horizon up there with The Thing! Jesus Christ... If ever there was a statement that immediately called into question the validity of an individual's thinking, that was it.. The Thing is up there with American Werewolf, Dawn of the Dead, The Wicker Man... Event Horizon is up there with such work as Blade II, Underworld and Pitch Black. It is middle-of-the-road at best. At very best...

Lewis and Clarke? Surely a reference to superman!

/hides

Dante...he was talking about the game...not the movie.

Scripted events usually are non-interactive as well, especially if you look at HLČ.

Anyway, doesn't sound too shabby after all.

I'm intrigued. Brings to mind System Shock 2 and Martian Gothic.
It's been a while since anyone touted dismemberment as a feature. Not since Alien vs Predator and AvP2 have we had a "The enemies can still crawl towards you without legs!" thingy.
What was that old space-horror game? Run Like Hell or somesuch. Was that any good? I recall Lance Henriksen did voice work in it or something.

It looks just a little too much like Cold Fear.

which was pretty dire, although playable.

Event Horizon was a great horror film. Not quite a classic, but probably in the catergory just below that status. Glad to hear the game takes it's cue from that film as well as JC's The Thing, as the trailer definitely showing huge potenial with regards to the atmosphere.

If they manage to pull off the basic game mechanics right and don't make any stupid design decisions, as well as live up to what's been promised as regards to atmosphere and tension, then it should be a quality game. Although I said that about Turning Point as well.....

@Grim

A bullet will only fire in space if the cartridge contains an oxidiser as part of the fuel. So yes gunpowder would be sucessful but, presumably in the future, they aren't using that and instead use something else, which may simply not contain it's own oxidiser component.

Things like bolt guns, which use compressed air would need their own gas supply and so would be very limited in a vacuum. There is also the very real danger of the old recoil meaning you're just as likely to injure yourself as the person you are shooting at unless you are anchored to the floor in some way.

As for hearing the sound...er how? I'm curious about this one because I can understand how someone in a space suit would hear the sound (surrounded by oxygen) but, someone without a suit surely has no air present around them to carry the sound vibrate and a vibration through a floor wouldn't reach your ears due to muscle tissue. I suppose un suited you could feel the vibration but, surely not hear it!

Science 101 this is a genuine question for Grim.

Event Horizon was a good film, by the look of the ending of it there should of been a sequel.

"Where we're going, we dont need eyes to see."

I love Event Horizon for two reasons:

1. The first time 'Baby Bear' sees the core and it illuminates. The sound effect he makes can only be described as the noise you make after eating a coffee Revel.

2. The expression on Sean Pertwee's face when he discovers that bomb.

why the f-ing hell couldn't they have also offered a 1st person viewpoint? sounds like my kinda game, except that i dislike 3rd person. that makes both this and mass effect no goes for me. oh well, gotta wait for stalker clear skies and fallout 3 i guess.

"1. The first time 'Baby Bear' sees the core and it illuminates. The sound effect he makes can only be described as the noise you make after eating a coffee Revel."

That is exactly correct.

3rd person hacks me off as well - I would rather feel like the person in the game, than the person controlling the person in the game. It also blocks off a whole chunk of the scenery from view. Oh well, I guess the counter argument is that it allows you to see things interact with your character.

edit: it does look great though, and thumbs up for the no sound in a vacuum thing, it was awesome in 2010.

Was totally drawn in by this until I got to the bit about slowing down time. WTF?! That didn't sound like it fitted with the rest at all.

@mashum I know what you measn about third person games, I had a hatred of them after too many poor 3rd person licensed shooters.

But somehow first person games never make me feel like I'm actually a person who there's, maybe a flying camera/gun drone/big robot who's there, but not a person.

RE4 changed my mind about 3rd person games, I love the sense of the character being in the environment. Speaking of which apparently in GTA4 the main character apparently places his foot squarely on every step when climbing stairs,

HALLEUJJAHHH! I've been waiting for decent character animnation in a game like that for years!

Yes the thing is clearly superior to EH - EH was ok tho but as said didn't really reach its potential. This game looks pretty cool - the vauum and and zero G stuff sounds most interesting.

On a remote outpost in space.....where nothing is as it seems......one man must fight to survive...etc

Event Horizon > Firefly

"As for hearing the sound...er how? I'm curious about this one because I can understand how someone in a space suit would hear the sound (surrounded by oxygen) but, someone without a suit surely has no air present around them to carry the sound vibrate and a vibration through a floor wouldn't reach your ears due to muscle tissue. I suppose un suited you could feel the vibration but, surely not hear it!"

I'd guess someone in a vacuum without a suit on would have a couple of slightly more pressing issues to worry about than whether they could hear someone firing a gun or not...

This is tricky. Everything about this game sounds cool - just the kind of game I like, infact (as well as being, like Doom3, a possible candidate for the best 'Alien' game never made)...and yet. Well, we've been here before - all the gradual build-up, the inevitable previews and advance video featurettes, over-excited devs talking up the game... all of which leads, almost inevitably, to disappointment when we finally get our hands on the finished game.

I REALLY hope I'm wrong. Then again, this is EA's BIG chance to prove, once and for all, that they are getting serious about 'quality' IP and development. Will they be as good as their word or will Dead Space be another - yet another - tragically wasted opportunity?

Loved Event Horizon but I don't trust the publisher to put out a decent game tbh. All these modern shooters are rubbish... flash graphics and bugger-all story.

liberate tutame ex EA

all these kudos to event horizon puzzle me. it was a mediocre film, at best. started out well and like so many mediocre scifi/horror films, degenerated into a gimmicky haunted house movie. guess if something's old enough it gets called a classic, despite being sort of lame.

a gravity gun and updates through a pda? sounds so new I cant wait!
/sigh