Dead Space review

"Twinkle twinkle little star, how I wonder what you are?" a dying woman sings over the elevator tannoy as I climb through the decks of the doomed ship Ishimura. I'm not a big fan of that whole nursery rhyme horror cliche, but it fits for Dead Space. This was never a series about exploring the wonders of the universe or of space as a wild frontier where the worst evil we can imagine is corporate greed dominating the stars. No, this is a game about how space is downright scary; an abyss into which we gaze and see our nightmares reflected right back. Hard to marvel at the universe with a Necromorph's blades in your gut... Read more.