Dead Space

Item: Dead Space
Rating: 87
Author: VaporLens

Last updated: 2025-09-05

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Summary

Enhanced horror experience with stunning visuals and audio
Dynamic, immersive Ishimura with expanded story
Strategic dismemberment combat is a core mechanic
Severe performance and stability issues reported
Unsatisfying story and gameplay changes for some
Highly recommended, especially for horror fans

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Satisfaction36%Excitement16%Frustration11%Disappointment9%Fear5%

Reviews (sample size): 2000
Helpful reviews: 63%
Unhelpful reviews: 35%
Protest reviews: 2%

87%
Helpful reviews with positive sentiment
13%
Helpful reviews with negative sentiment

Positive points: 6137
Negative points: 1946
Gameplay points: 1190
Perf. points: 343
Rec. points: 1081
Misc points: 504

Point	Description	Importance
Enhanced Horror Experience Description The game delivers an intensified and immersive horror experience, leveraging updated graphics, masterful sound design, and atmospheric lighting to create a constant sense of dread and tension. Players frequently describe it as terrifying, scary, and a benchmark for the survival horror genre, often surpassing other modern horror titles. Importance 70%	The game delivers an intensified and immersive horror experience, leveraging updated graphics, masterful sound design, and atmospheric lighting to create a constant sense of dread and tension. Players frequently describe it as terrifying, scary, and a benchmark for the survival horror genre, often surpassing other modern horror titles.	70%
Stunning Visuals and Audio Description The remake boasts breathtaking graphics, meticulously detailed environments, and exceptional sound design. Players highlight the volumetric lighting, shadows, and realistic sound effects as key contributors to the immersive and terrifying atmosphere, making every creak and distant scream impactful. Importance 64%	The remake boasts breathtaking graphics, meticulously detailed environments, and exceptional sound design. Players highlight the volumetric lighting, shadows, and realistic sound effects as key contributors to the immersive and terrifying atmosphere, making every creak and distant scream impactful.	64%
Dynamic and Immersive Ishimura Description The USG Ishimura is reimagined as a fully interconnected, seamless environment without loading screens, enhancing immersion and encouraging exploration. The ship feels more alive and hostile, with dynamic events and unpredictable enemy encounters maintaining constant tension throughout. Importance 26%	The USG Ishimura is reimagined as a fully interconnected, seamless environment without loading screens, enhancing immersion and encouraging exploration. The ship feels more alive and hostile, with dynamic events and unpredictable enemy encounters maintaining constant tension throughout.	26%
Expanded Story and Lore Description The narrative is deepened and made more coherent through expanded dialogues, new cutscenes, and additional lore. Side quests are seamlessly integrated, providing meaningful backstory for characters and events on the Ishimura without feeling like filler, and an alternative ending adds replay value. Importance 25%	The narrative is deepened and made more coherent through expanded dialogues, new cutscenes, and additional lore. Side quests are seamlessly integrated, providing meaningful backstory for characters and events on the Ishimura without feeling like filler, and an alternative ending adds replay value.	25%
Voiced and Developed Isaac Description Isaac Clarke, the protagonist, is now fully voiced, which significantly enhances his character depth, emotional connection, and narrative engagement. His dialogue and reactions make him feel more like a real person and integrate him better into the story and team dynamics, aligning with later games in the series. Importance 18%	Isaac Clarke, the protagonist, is now fully voiced, which significantly enhances his character depth, emotional connection, and narrative engagement. His dialogue and reactions make him feel more like a real person and integrate him better into the story and team dynamics, aligning with later games in the series.	18%
Rewarding Exploration and Replayability Description The game incorporates Metroidvania-style elements, allowing players to revisit previously explored areas with new access levels to uncover hidden items, lore, and side quests. This, along with New Game+ and various difficulty modes, significantly boosts replayability and rewards thorough exploration. Importance 9%	The game incorporates Metroidvania-style elements, allowing players to revisit previously explored areas with new access levels to uncover hidden items, lore, and side quests. This, along with New Game+ and various difficulty modes, significantly boosts replayability and rewards thorough exploration.	9%

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