Well...there's a little difference between Dead Space and Doom 3 though. Doom 3 shocks the crap out of you, but isn't really scary. Dead Space however, while also using a lot of shock moments, is also scary; you don't just rush through the whole space ship killing necromorphs left and right of you, but you actually start moving tactically and carefully, always ready to shoot the enemy wherever he might appear.
That being said...I liked Dead Space, it's one of the best horror/sci-fi games I've played so far. Sure, it has a couple of flaws (like every game has), for instance, I would have liked more parts in which you interacted with friendly NPCs, but that's just my opinion, and whatever may be, it's a great game;).
Edit: But yeah, Bioshock is still the king of all horror games;).
i didnt find bioshock scary but dead space creeped me out... hm.
Both are great games, end.
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And thinking of Bioshock 2 - you know the trailer was just officially released? Well the whole time it was buried in the original game as an Easter Egg anyway!
o.O
Some guy found it on his PS3 according to my game magazine.
' Wrote:Meh... I thought Doom 3 was jumpier. This was just, "Oh. I shot another limb off."
Followed by stomping the corpse clean of limbs for giggles.
... I found Doom 3 to be pathetic. They used horribly unrealistic lighting effects to get their scare factor. Combined with predictable monster spawns (I made five bucks on it: "I'll bet you five bucks an enemy will jump at you when you pick up that item"). And needing to switch from your gun to your flashlight just to find an enemy in a pitch-black area--when it is perfectly lit on the other side of the room--is just aggravatingly pointless.
I'm not one for being "scared" per say, but at I found Dead Space intense. I could feel my adrenaline pumping higher than normal and I did jump at a few parts. That continued for the whole game. Doom 3 I jumped at the first monster spawn, then it was just a pathetic, aggravating first person slaughter.
Though, since it was brought up... I can't wait for Bioshock 2. Bioshock wasn't really meant to be "scary" as I saw it, just intense and creepy. It did it really well.
After watching the dead space movie I don't think I could bare to play the game. Not because it was scarey, but because it was so b-grade. The only part that was awsome was when the blue haired girl got chainsawed through the back, then she tried to grab it and her thumbs got cut off =D