Over the next two weeks, anyone with a Steam account can try out Dead Space for an hour and a half for free. Now, almost four months after launch, EA announced it is running a 20% off sale for Dead Space on Steam and is offering a free trial through May 29. Motive released its remake of Dead Space in January to critical acclaim. The first title to have one is EA Motive’s Dead Space remake. It can cover all sorts of things, so the best thing to do is have a look.Steam is rolling out a new feature that allows developers and publishers to offer limited-time free trials for their games. Post ProcessingPost-processing also effects a range of different effects and is basically any effect or filter which is applied to the game after the level has been built and rendered. It really impinges on the atmosphere of the entire game for obvious reasons that really don’t need explanation. On the Medium setting that’s all pretty much true still, but the edges are a lot harder and more jaggy.Īs for the Low setting – well, we suggest you just stay away from that. The edges are smooth and soft, the shadows are dynamic and fluid and the hallways are filled with places for creepy-crawly things to creep and crawl from before they have their legs blown off. The shadows on the High settings are top-notch. On the other hand though, it is my job to do that.
The differences are obvious and don’t really need a semi-pretentious ‘Games are art’ journalist who can’t even grow a beard properly to point them out. Put simply a survival horror game without shadows is like a doughnut without the filling.ĭead Space Shadow Quality on High (left), Medium (centre) and Low (right), click to enlarge They also give enemies somewhere to hide and pounce from. Shadow QualityShadows play a large and important part in any survival horror game and are a huge part of making the player feel vulnerable and scared. If you’re worried that you’re going to be missing out though then don’t worry – the minimum requirements for the game list that it only needs a gigabyte of RAM, a DirectX 9 graphics card with Shader Model 3.0 support (that’s a GeForce 6800 or Radeon X1600 Pro or better) and a 2.8 GHz CPU. Well, the good news is that the game is a straight up port of the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 version as far as we can tell – so it should run fine on any system that has comparable hardware.
The question that’s going to be on a lot of peoples' minds though is more about the hardware requirements. Graphics Analysis IISo, you can make Dead Space look quite good with a little bit of tweaking – and we’re going to take a look at a few more examples in a second.
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