It's boring and overly-complicated where you simply want it to be what it is… That Dead Space the game tosses you into a situation with little explanation or available defense – pushes you into the darkness to discover for yourself what Downfall so plainly tells you – proves that this series understands how to blend story, pacing, atmosphere and violence to relatively meaningful effect. Aside from the myriad horror movie clichés apparent in that one situation, both the voice acting and the decided lack of music – allowing, rather, for the realistic drone of the spacecraft to hum beneath almost every scene – make for a film that somehow feels disconnected from itself. One of them says, all too casually, "I'm gonna go look for my girlfriend," completely oblivious to the deadly implications of what's around him. Example: Two guys walk into a room covered in strange, alien webbing. It's difficult to say whether it's the writing or the voice acting, but the characters never seem to react appropriately to what's happening on screen. And the action, when it happens, is fast and bloody and fun. Jaw-bones are torn asunder heroes are sliced vertically in half heads are blown away and a ravenous pack of grotesque, Thing-like creatures slithers and climbs across the ship.
Which is not, however, to say that there aren't scares – there are a few, indeed – and the gore is both very well staged and visually executed. Rather than succeeding as a tense, effective, futuristic horror movie, Downfall instead becomes a creature-feature action film, high on gore and gunfights, but bogged down by unnecessary details. And finally, cue the necromorphs…or, a nice way to say, "Vicious space monsters." All of this, strangely, happens within the first ten minutes, the consequence of which is that the simplicity of the set-up goes completely out the window. Cue the captain who feels that it's a good idea to bring the artifact onboard the Ishimura. Cue the eccentric scientist intent on uncovering its secret. Cue the religious "Unitarian" sect demanding to worship at the base of the artifact.
Cue the violent effects of such an artifact upon the mining colony – a rise in the murder rate insane miners jabbering crazily against their restraints. Cue the towering, mysterious artifact discovered on an alien planet.
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