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Dead Space 2 Demo Impressions

Josh from For the Love of Gaming plays the Dead Space 2 demo

adlt5630d ago

When I wasn't scared...it was a great experience! I loved the demo and I haven't played the first one. Might have to pick that one up. Something about games can scare me, movies don't. I don't quite understand it haha.

VenomProject5630d ago (Edited 5630d ago )

The reason why games scare you more than movies is because you're in control of the protagonist.

In a movie, you already have a predetermined mindset. You know that somehow the hero will always beat the beastie, you know the heroine will always find her missing daughter...In a game, you're relying on your own intuition and reflexes to survive.

This is what I love about video games, they bring a certain level of interaction that movies will never have.

WhittO5630d ago

Games are always WAY scarier to play than watching a scary movie.

For me its because in a movie you can prepare yourself for what is about to happen, like when one of them is getting chased, so you can just watch to see what happens.
In a game you have to control that chase and make sure you escape, it feels like it is happening to you haha.

Sound design is 60% of what makes a game scary, you could have a really crap looking game and have it still be really scary by the sound design/soundtrack etc.

Like when I think of Silent Hill 2 the first thing I think of are all the sounds haha, like the soundtrack or even the noises for selecting equipment lol.

Even games that aren't meant to be totally scary (Resistance 1/2 and even Killzone 2!) still have parts where you start to sh*t yourself lol. Especially R2 where you are going through an abandoned house in pitch-black and all you can hear are grunts from the chimera somewhere inside.

Jaces5630d ago

The demo was pretty fun but the scary factor has been thrown out the window.

It's more jump out of hiding places a screaming "boo". The movements aren't as clunky and heavy as the first which is good I guess, I really didn't have a problem with the slow/heavy movement.

What I came away with from the demo was a sort of action orientated game with monsters. This doesn't feel like the survival/horror that the first Dead Space brought to the table.

This is a demo showing a small portion of the game so I'm not basing anything off of it, just saying what I felt when I played. Still excited and still have it preordered, cannot wait. :D

galgor5630d ago

loved the demo. just left me wanting more!

SkylineR5630d ago

Yeah I liked the demo quite a lot. Never played the original either.

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EA Lays Off Staff Across All Battlefield Studios Following Record-Breaking Battlefield 6 Launch

EA is laying off an unknown number of individuals from across its Battlefield teams, including workers at Criterion, Dice, Ripple Effect, and Motive Studios, IGN understands.

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peppeaccardo86d ago

When logic meets EA it generates anti-matter ..... so try not to apply it in any meaningful way. Entropy is what matters in there !!

badz14986d ago

cue the apologist saying that these are mostly just contractors hired for this specific project bla bla bla

HyperMoused86d ago

TTK for BF employees needs adjusting

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EA makes layoffs at Skate developer Full Circle

The free-to-play reboot topped 15 million players in under three weeks, but EA now claims it needs to reshape the development team.

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Profchaos98d ago

The community warned them this would happen but nope they knew better they continued with the live service push the made the art style cartoonish and this is the result

isarai_lee98d ago

It's always so bizarre when studios announce something super early in development under the suggestion of forming the game to player feedback, and then they push against all feedback heading straight for the cliff while everyone is warning them along the way

badboyz0998d ago (Edited 98d ago )

🤣🤣🤣

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US Lawmakers Urge Review Of EA Sale

The Congressional Labor Caucus sent a letter to the FTC warning the debt-financed, largely PIF-owned deal could be bad news for workers

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Trilithon132d ago

lol ya think? they're sending all that work to the cheaper labor market as soon as possible. and FYI, that labor market has exploded in the last 5-10 years. They have enough people to replace every single job. But honestly, EA is over filled with useless upper management as it is. You could probably trim 25% of their staff with no real loss in production. They aren't gamers, they're business execs. Just look at how many AI related jobs they're already starting to post. Its also hilarious that PIF owns Battle field 6

lodossrage132d ago (Edited 132d ago )

Wait,

The same congress that attacked Lina Khan when she fought the Microsoft Activision purchase.
The same congress that allowed Disney to buy 90% of Fox
The same congress that allowed Liv Golf to buy the PGA
The same congress that sits back while Paramount tries a hostile takeover despite losing the bid for Warner Bros.

NOW, the suddenly cares about doing what's "right" for works? Yeah, right.

thorstein132d ago

No. There were elections and some of the scum were replaced.

TheColbertinator132d ago

Different elections. Different scum. Same results.

rlow1132d ago

i know its a long shot, but i hope this gets shot down.

ZwVw132d ago

EA now owned by The Saudis and Ubisoft to inevitably be owned by China. In hindsight, once EA and Ubisoft started having their financial woes, they should have pulled a Koei Tecmo/Bandai Namco by merging their operations into one.