Why is everyone raving about Dead Space?

[disolitude]

Jackson50 said:

disolitude said:Are there alternate routes or does the game allow you to do any exploration? No...you linearly follow the line on the ground and kill mosnters room after room. I thought we were done with "Find the gold key" like gameplay in 2001 after halflife.

But what about the weapons power up system and the store you say? Don't must guns become useless as soon as you get the next available better gun? So the power up system is pointless.

Exploration does not make sense for this game...why include it? Your objective is to stay alive, fix the problem, and escape the situation as quickly as possible. I have never been in a situation similar to the one in the game, but I can assure you I would not be exploring the ship. Exploration makes sense in a game like GTA but not in Dead Space.

No, the guns do not become useless. I used the plasma cutter for the entire duration of the game. I found the upgrade points useful. 

 

Exploration is the key aspect of survival horror. I'm not talking about GTA type of freedom (sandbox). But a game that drops you in a world and tells you "figure out how to survive this". Resident evil, Silent hill...the best horror games always have an exploration element to them. Hence why you always have a map in those games...

Without it you may as well give me unlimited ammo and call it gears of war.