Shocktober, The Beginning.

I am not a fan of the survival/horror genre, I'm a scardie pants. So call it a miracle or something that I have been so intrigued by latest survival/horror game, Dead Space.

Dead Space places you in the shoes of Isaac, a engineer for a futuristic society that is a sent on mission to discover what happened to the non-communicative, "planet cracking" space ship, the Ishimura. Whooo, that was a mouthful. Now, a little backstory.

In this futuristic society, earth has exhausted all of its resources, so it has turned to the stars by cracking apart planets and harvesting the non-renewable resources waiting inside. Well, on this routine mission, all communications are stopped with the most successful of these planet cracking space ships. So there you go, you've got the back story.

Now, for the story itself. Apparently, there is an alien race buried deep within the earth that is using some kind of "marker" to alter peoples minds and make them go crazy and kill each other. Then they take over their dead bodies, and are turned into what Isaac knows as, the Necromorphs. The Necromorphs are the primary antagonist throughout the game.

Well, this game is good at being scary. Isaac is on a dark powered down ship in the middle of space with horribly mutated dead bodies waiting around every corner, fun fun. And that isn't sarcasm, this game is loaded with fun. Isaac isn't a soldier, so he doesn't use guns, instead he uses engineering equipment to plow his way through any unlucky necromorph, but that isn't as easy as it sounds.

The Necromorphs are impervious to shots in the head and torso, so you've got to use what Electronic Arts (the developer of the game) are calling "strategic dismemberment". So you have to shoot off these aliens appendages, limb by limb, until they lay at your feet in a bloody heap.

I have played through the first three chapters of the game, and the story is great, I'm not going to give away in a big spoilers, but I will update in Shocktober: The End, after I finish this game. The game is available on PS3 and Xbox 360 and is rated M for mature, please also note, this game might make you soil yourself. Depends are handy. AND MAKE SURE YOU CHECK OUT THE TRAILER I HAVE POSTED BELOW!