Dead Space is a good game with a few flaws that keep it from being a great game. Don't get me wrong, I'm on my second playthrough and having fun, but it could be better.

The 100% reliance on scripting makes the game pretty intense during the first play-through, then it gets more and more cliche. Same thing with Doom 3: the first time you see something it's really cool. 50 times later through-out the course of the game... not so much.

The weapons are cool and add some variety, but it's just too hard to really play around with them all. Ammo is so scarce for most of the game, you end up always having the plasma cutter in your inventory because it's versatile enough to work on any necro.

Variety in necro types is severly lacking. There's regular ones and black ones, and a few specialty types, but all in all you get into a rhythm of killing them. There should be no rhythm in a horror game. It should be a rollercoaster of insane peaks with disturbing (not boring) lows that make you wonder when (and even if) you are going to get attacked.

As it stands right now, I walk into a room to activate X mcguffin to progress to plot. There are no necros, just some dead bodies. I know that I need to dismember the bodies to remove their viability for creating new necros and I know as soon as hit the button any vents in the area will be entrance points for necros.

It shouldn't be like that. Hell, run a quick random encounter algorithm to save CPU time, or go all out and have X number of necros on a given chapter that can and will attack at any given time. Maybe have them retreat and call for backup. Make them setup traps (they are smart enough to do so after that one (and only) scripted event ~ chapter 3).

There's also a couple plot hole that really annoy me about it, but I'm not going into it now so as to not spoil the game. Maybe I'm just nitpicking, but this game was good, when it could have been great.