If you've never played Dead Space then shame on you. It's a terrifically fantastic game, especially the second one. Sure, there are some cheap jump scares like you would find in any survival horror, but the game can be horrific with a mere light flicker and an ominous sound that has just a bit too much treble to not be something lurking in the shadows. It's a real experience and there are definitely scenes that I could have done without ever seeing in my lifetime. But it's not all horrors, there is some spectacular cinematic action that blows the mind, puts it back together and blows it again.
The dead space series stars an engineer named Isaac Clarke that has been driven mad by an alien monolith known as the marker. If being driven mad wasn't bad enough the marker also has a nasty habit of spawning a viral alien life form that lives only to kill, infect, and mutate. It's classic sci-fi alien action. Isaac, driven by madness and revenge for his dead girlfriend whose memory haunts him, seeks out the marker to destroy it. This tends to put him in a series of shit situations.
The most notable of which takes place in the second game where we find Isaac doing a space walk above Jupiter's moon, Titan, fixing a solar array to deliver power back to the moon base when he gets a distress call from his comrades that they are being overwhelmed by monsters and urgently need him. Being miles above the surface of the moon how is Isaac to get to his friends in time?
He fucking launched himself at the moon with a rocket! Head first into a moon with a rocket strapped to him! As if that wasn't badass enough he dodges a shit ton of space debry, even flying through some of it. Then he crashes head first into the roof of the moon base and tops it all off with an Ironman style landing. Then he just continues on to his friends like it was nothing! Like he does that shit everyday! It's like, "oh, hello Isaac, how was your day at work?" "You know, the same old routine, fixed some satellites, had a light lunch, talked with Debra from accounting a bit, oh and I FELL TO THE FUCKING MOON!"
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