It's more shock and awe than psychological warfare.
It is genuinely creepy, but "Dead Space" probably won't turn you into a huddled, sobbing ball unable to fall asleep at night. But is it actually, you know, spooky-scary? There's nothing that feels scarier than confronting zombies or ghosts when you don't have the ammo to vaporize them.ģ. Relying heavily on horror archetypes, these games build tension through prolonged cat-and-mouse scenarios. Typically classified as "survival horror," games like "Silent Hill," "Fatal Frame" or "Siren" pit players who have little means of fighting back against horrific creatures. Horror has had a long videogame tradition. Most of the crew is massacred or insane and playing host to an alien life force that wants nothing more than to kill everyone. Think of it as the videogame lovechild of "Alien" and "Solaris." Engineer Isaac Clarke is part of a repair mission sent to restore communications to a mining ship. "Dead Space" is a science fiction horror game for the PlayStation 3, PC and Xbox 360. It has certainly caught the spirit of the season - the Halloween season, of course.
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