By the way, some time ago I played through the brilliant, brilliant game Dead Space which is also quite magnificent.
It's a an action-space-survival-horror adventure where you play a crew member being part of a crew that's responding to the emergency signal from a superlarge mining vessel ship thingie. When you get there, the place seems mysteriously empty .. of course it's not, you soon find yourself cut off from the rest of your friends facing a bunch of horrible, macabre monsters that may just be what's left of the mining crew. You have radio contact with the other survivors of your own crew members and have to go complete different tasks in different areas on the huge ship in order to get out of there alive. Along the way, you discover the truth about what really happened on the ship.
There's a lot of action, scares and situations that just feel like they're gonna be too much for you but you somehow manage. Most enemies in the game are vulnerable to getting their limbs hacked off and the weapons you'll use often do just that to gory effect. You can upgrade items and so on and there's a good feeling of not just story progression, but also character progression through the game.
It's also rather lengthy with a good story and great atmosphere. You often feel very alone when you're walking the dark corridors of the mining ship, wondering what's gonna lash out at you around the next dark corner.
The game also gets better the longer you play it, so if you have given this a shot for, say, 10 minutes and was put off, pick it up and give it another chance. We need more games like these
