Welcome to the latest HCG feature to rock your socks off: HCG Versus Mode. Two opinions! Two arguments! Who will walk away the winner? Only you can decide. To start things off, Adam and Sean discuss why Dead Space is (or is not) a good game. There will almost certainly be spoilers ahead, so if you haven’t played the game yet, you’d do well to steer clear.

Dead Space is not a good horror game. It’s not a good shooter. It’s not a well told horror tale either. Sure, it has pretty graphics. The sound design is top notch. The voice acting is pretty decent. Other than that, Dead Space fails pretty hard.

It starts off promising, if predictably. The USG Ishimura has gone silent while mining a planet. You and your team are sent to investigate. Things go horribly wrong. Your shuttle is destroyed, nightmarish creatures appear, people die. It’s up to you and the remaining survivors to figure out how to escape, and the first step is to get the trains working. Only you can fix them. (more…)