Damn spiffy, this game is. The concern people rightfully had was that Epic would quick & dirty this sequel, but playing the new outing for a little bit, it definitely does not seem to be the case. It really does seem like Epic tried to address every issue the original game had, while also moving the whole thing forward in its own right. The fact that even the graphics have had a rather significant boost is inexplicable to me, considering how hard the first game pushed the hardware, and that it’s probably still one of the best looking games on the platform.

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Dead Space had to work hard to prove itself to gamers. When the title was first being shown to press, many people had already written it off as another generic sci-fi shooter before anything was really even known about the game. The stigma of being an internally developed product from a massive company that has earned a reputation for safe, low risk games didn’t help the situation much either. Undeniably, the premise is very familiar, a small team responding to a distress beacon, discovering a seemingly abandoned facility/derelict ship, and ultimately finding themselves being killed off one by one. It was all too easy to assume that the team behind Dead Space wasn’t going to deliver.

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Initially it had seemed awfully presumptive of EA to take their new unproven and generic seeming IP and try to turn it into a cross-media event, with the game, a comic book, and an animated feature released to DVD. (Hell, there was even an internet ARG.) Over here on the other side of the game’s release, it’s obvious a ton of care and attention went into the game’s story and minutia, and it perhaps successfully makes the argument that there is indeed a universe here worth exploiting.
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Yeah, see that? Yeah… Hit the jump for more, you know you want to.

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Without a 360 to play Dead Space on, and seeking a sci-fi horror fix, I looked at the games installed on my PC and realized that I had AvP2 set up. “Oh snap!” I said to myself “That was a great game.” So i dug my AvP2 discs out of a pile of miscellanea and started the old game up, and a rollicking good time was had.

The End.

(P.S.- Not really the end, hit the jump.)

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Tower defense games have really taken off in the last year or so, it seems people are really keen on trying to defend something as opposed to the usual wanton destruction. So far though, these games have been mostly restricted to small web-based flash games and small digitally distributed download games. So there may be a gap here, and Lock’s Quest seems to be trying to fill it.

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