Dead Space (2008) is a shooter, released 13 October 2008.
What Dead Space (2008) is
Dead Space (2008) was released in 2008.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Dead Space is a 2008 survival horror game developed by EA Redwood Shores and published by Electronic Arts. It was released for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and Windows as the debut entry in the Dead Space series. Set on a mining spaceship overrun by deadly monsters called Necromorphs following the discovery of an artifact called the Marker, the player controls engineer Isaac Clarke as he navigates the spaceship and fights the Necromorphs while struggling with growing psychosis. Gameplay has Isaac exploring different areas through its narrative, solving environmental puzzles and finding ammunition and equipment to survive.
How it was received
Dead Space (2008) holds a critic score of 86 out of 100. That places it above 89% of the 3,305 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2008 averaged 65, so it scored 21 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Dead Space (2008) launched on 13 October 2008, within three weeks of Fallout 3, Dead Space, LittleBigPlanet and World of Goo. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Fallout 3, Dead Space, LittleBigPlanet, World of Goo.
Cheats and codes
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