Dead Space - A new System Shock?

june gloom on 16/2/2009 at 18:47

They're bigger than they'd be on the exbawx. As in, more than a couple rooms.

JohnnyTheWolf on 18/2/2009 at 13:15

No comment on Dead Space Extraction yet?

Anyway, it looks like DS is really coming to the Wii. However, it seems it's going to be some kind of a prequel to the original game.

I found this (http://www.jeuxvideo.com/videos_editeurs/0002/00020724/dead_space_extraction_f1q0.htm) teaser on a french game site. The video is in english, though.

EDIT: It can be found on (http://www.gamespot.com/wii/action/deadspaceextraction/index.html?tag=result;title;4) Gamespot as well.

The_Raven on 18/2/2009 at 15:48

Apparently, it will be first-person as well.

JohnnyTheWolf on 19/2/2009 at 01:51

Unfortunately, according to (http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3172853) 1UP, this game is going to be a rail shooter a la House of the Dead.

Aja on 19/2/2009 at 10:40

booooooring

My Wii has like a Grand Canyon's worth of dust on it.

Volca on 19/2/2009 at 10:44

Don't you wipe it sometimes, at least? :wot:

The 1st person view is what someone called for here, so it might be actually interesting.

EvaUnit02 on 19/2/2009 at 10:48

So basically House of the Dismembered Dead? I'll pass.

gunsmoke on 19/2/2009 at 15:37

Has anyone played that new House of the Dead game? Forsome reason, reviewers are calling it a revolution for rail-shooters.

EvaUnit02 on 19/2/2009 at 15:45

There's nothing revolutionary about a tired arcade genre game, ripping off Tarantino, who in turn rips off old B movies and cult cinema.

If anything Capcom's old Gun Survivor series for PS1/PS2 is more daring, since they're lightgun shooters trying to be adventure games. I played through Resident Evil: Gun Survivor 1 for PS1 year ago, it wasn't too bad for a rental. Bizarrely they removed lightgun support from the US version, but it was left intact for the PAL release.

Renault on 22/2/2009 at 23:29

Just finished up this game, I thought it was very well done and lots of fun. This game felt WAY more like System Shock than Bioshock or Doom3 ever did. I don't often replay games, but I could definitely see firing this one up again six months from now.

Small point: I thought it was cool how they didn't make your original weapon obsolete after the first few levels. Usually, they give you a useless pistol or weak energy weapon to get started, and you end up moving on to machine guns and rocket launchers and leave it behind. That part too, I thought it was good that there was no overwhelming BFG type weapon, it kept some of that "survival" feel last throughout the entire game.

A true sequel would be great, not this House of the Dead nonsense though.