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Dead Space Wants To Scare You

Posted by Soulskill on from the BOO dept.

Kotaku recently ran a story questioning whether the survival-horror genre still exists, and how Dead Space may or may not fit into it. With reviews for the game starting to come in, Ars Technica reports that the game is, indeed, both scary and good. Gamespy wrote up a Dead Space survival guide, and Gamasutra has a lengthy interview with the game's senior producer. In the production of the game, the developers studied things like car wrecks and war scenes to increase the level of realism. They also want the game's sounds to terrify players, including appropriately timed silence. The launch trailer is also available, though it does contain spoilers.

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  1. AvP games by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    My favorite "scary" games have to be the Alien vs Predator series while playing as marine. The atmosphere created when all you had was the little motion sensor was amazing.

    It wasn't the big action sequences either, it was the long quiet bits in between which built the tension.

  2. Re:Maybe it's me by supernova_hq · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Wow. "Shit the door". Well, I stand back from that. It sure has been a while.

    There, fixed that for you.