Review of Dead Space: Downfall (2008) by Tom G — 28 Oct 2008

Sure.. it's not the best horror film, it's nowhere near it. It's not even scary or gory enough to be classed as a horror, in any vein. But it is thrilling. If you're a fan of the anime style. It's not as gory as it acclaimed to be but it is vesceral and well paced. It's a nice 76 minutes long, and it seems long enough to tell the story.

Now, if you're playing the game and remember, this is a feature leangth prequel, a movie, BASED ON A GAME. How many games to you have or have played on wher eyou can actually say you know the full stpry, the whole plot. The backstory, othe characters involved. The lore of the game? Yeah that's right,. not toooo many. If you've downloaded the slightly animated comics from Xbox live you'll know how the colony met it's demise, at the hands of the Necromorphs and the discovery of the artifact. In this, you get to learn of how the USK Ishimura goes about cracking the planet of Aegis 7 unleashing the Necromorphs. This is only touched on in a few of teh boxes from the animated comic you should have downloaded on Xbox live. After this movie... Play the game. Now you know the story from every angle. And this movie ends just as the Game begins. How many times can you say that you have seen the whole story, read and watched and head the comic, watched the feature length prequel movie and the played the 10+ hour game that it's based on. (The Game came first remember). This is the Dead Space expereince told on three levels in three different styles and is a lengthy one. I loved it.