I was really underwhelmed by this.

I missed Dead Space back in the day, it just passed me by so I never gave it a shot. I finally got around to playing this remake and I just didn't enjoy it.

Visually it is stunning, the gore is great, the atmosphere is heavy, I love the design choice to have everything relevant to gameplay be actually part of this utilitarian world, i.e your health being visible on the back of your suit.

On paper, this should be a slamdunk game I love, I've watched playthroughs of a lot of Dead Space games including the on-rails shooter on the Wii. I have read up on lots of the lore and characters. The world is very enticing to me as a horror/SciFi fan but actually playing this game left me feeling kind of bored.

Combat gets old pretty fast and the scares are more like being in a haunted house, I saw them coming a mile away.

It isn't at all a bad game, except for very weak PC optimization, but I didn't enjoy it as much as I feel I should.