Being someone who never really plays horror games, dead space world was an unusual experience for me. This game can be bought on the app store and could probably be acquired on other mobile devices. This game takes place before dead space two, and has a brand new main character, instead of playing as the usual Isaac Clark, you instead play as another engineer who goes by the codename of Vandal. The game starts with Vandal doing some strange work for the church of unitology, various things happen and Vandal is put in the middle of a Nec
romorph outbreak. Vandal's voice filter and the fact that Vandal doesn't feel the need to take off a helmet constantly (*cough Isaac Clark *cough) makes the character much more mysterious. The music in this game is very impressive, until i played this game i never thought that orchestral music could be even mildly scary. The game play is great, and it doesn't even suffer that much from the console game to hand held change. For those hardcore people who play horror games constantly you might not find it that scary, but i think it is scary enough. Over the course of the game you get five weapons and there is also an optional sixth weapon on the shop, weapons like the plasma cutter and the ripper blades return from the original games, but there are weapons like the plasma saw and the core extractor that are completely new. The story line is good enough that you want to know what happens next which is unusual in a horror game. Some of the scariest parts of the game come from the insanity of the main character as Vandal seems to be going through the same thing that Isaac has. Another thing about the game that i liked were the acheivements, achievements are, in my opinion often done badly, either they are ridiculously hard to get, or there just doesn't seem to be any point. In this game most of the achievements are possible and everytime you get two achievements a new wallpaper is unlocked. I would consider this game one of my favorite apps.
SPOILERS! DO NOT READ THE NEXT PART IF YOU DON'T WANT THE GAME SPOILED FOR YOU!
After playing through the game I found out soem very interesting things, firstly throughout the game Vandal will make several voice logs, the first and last of these you can actually find and listen to in dead space two, Unfortunately when you find the last one it is next to a mangled corpse wearing engineer class armor, which probably explains Vandals fate. Another thing i found was that the first letter in each chapters name spells out a secret message. In dead space world it spells out hewillbetray. For someone who has played the game it is not very hard to figure out what that is referring to.
ers about specter's flute.
To make good combat, it needs to be strategic. Take Batman: AA for instance. In face to face combat, you have get as many hits as you can to build up the freeflow combo, which does more damage. You need to counter at the right time, because enemies to a lot of damage to you if you get hit. You also need to take time to defeat the tougher enemies like the knife wielding goons who block your combo's and can perform unblockable attacks and the taser guy's who have to be dodged over for damage to be done. Oh, and watch out for guy's who want to use the gun's in the room. And the Titan inmates. And the environment. And I haven't even started on invisible predator...
Boss fights are important in Super Hero games. It's the one time in a game that another character can be more powerful than a hero, which is why boss fight's are better hard. What some games do is fill in the boss fight's with goons, which is pretty cheap. Boss fights need to be great. I mean, take a look at this one:
was a bit dodgy and the parts of the game where you would spend hours on end looking for that last peice of the electroshock armour. but the weapons are what gave this game an edge over tools of destruction. The Ryno also made a comeback as a rocket launcher that fired antimatter rockets, the optical maser array was also rather leathal, the agents of dread made a comeback as well as a morph weapon called the mootator/armoogeddon, which is basically the morph-o-ray/Quack-o-
ray from Ratchet and Clank 2/3. the game may be on the sony handheld console but it is also on ps2 which prevents any let down for fans of the game who don't have sony handheld consoles.
romorph outbreak. Vandal's voice filter and the fact that Vandal doesn't feel the need to take off a helmet constantly (*cough Isaac Clark *cough) makes the character much more mysterious. The music in this game is very impressive, until i played this game i never thought that orchestral music could be even mildly scary. The game play is great, and it doesn't even suffer that much from the console game to hand held change. For those hardcore people who play horror games constantly you might not find it that scary, but i think it is scary enough. Over the course of the game you get five weapons and there is also an optional sixth weapon on the shop, weapons like the plasma cutter and the ripper blades return from the original games, but there are weapons like the plasma saw and the core extractor that are completely new. The story line is good enough that you want to know what happens next which is unusual in a horror game. Some of the scariest parts of the game come from the insanity of the main character as Vandal seems to be going through the same thing that Isaac has. Another thing about the game that i liked were the acheivements, achievements are, in my opinion often done badly, either they are ridiculously hard to get, or there just doesn't seem to be any point. In this game most of the achievements are possible and everytime you get two achievements a new wallpaper is unlocked. I would consider this game one of my favorite apps.
