The much-anticipated “Resident Evil 5″ won’t be out until next spring, but a new “Silent Hill” mystery has arrived just in time for Halloween.
There are a few good horror games that have been released this year.
Sega’s grungy “Condemned 2: Bloodshot” is thoroughly terrifying, while Atari’s “Alone in the Dark,” while flawed, has its nerve-racking moments.
And Electronic Arts has savvily chosen October to release the year’s most bone-chilling game — so far.
— “Dead Space” (Electronic Arts, for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, $59.99): It will probably be a few centuries before space travel becomes routine — which may be a good thing, given the nasty creatures we’ve encountered in movies like “Alien,” “Pitch Black” and “Sunshine.”
“Dead Space” sends a resourceful engineer named Isaac to investigate a mining ship, the Ishimura, whose communications have gone dead. Of course, that means everyone on board has probably gone dead, too.
The culprits are the Necromorphs, a charming race of aliens who feed off human flesh. Sometimes they gang up on you, while at other times they pretend to be dead and attack when you get too close.
You can only kill them through “strategic dismemberment,” which means ripping their limbs off one by one. The most distinctive levels of “Dead Space” take place in zero-gravity, which adds a disorienting feeling to your overall state of panic.
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