Good question about the stores. Remember now, the ship is a “Planet Cracker.” I don’t quite remember what “cracking a planet” does but it involves a crew made up of construction workers and a lot of the weapons were supposed to be construction/repair type tools. So, along with the whole “its a game so it doesn’t need to be 100% realistic” it also is a little reasonable to go buy these items. Why the crew has to purchase the items they need to work with and health packs (which should be free since planet cracking can be a dangerous job) is up for debate. Heck, Isaac is repairman himself not to mention allies who know how to hack computers. Why can’t ANY of these people put the stores in “FREE” mode? Which brings us back to the “it’s a game so it doesn’t need to be 100% realistic” schtick.

So, help that helps out a bit.

oh, and as for the tools/weapons, i’ve no clue but they were just too darn fun for me to find fault in!

first off your review made me want to play this game, now as to the store remember all of the crazy s**t you need to find the blueprints to get at. Don’t ask me why the blueprints are laying in very open spaces but at least we can assume you needed some sort of clearance to obtain them. Meh my take on it at least, other than that i have no more answers for you.

oh and you can slow necromorphs down with science as well if you diddnt notice, because i didn’t for most of the game.

The Ishimura space ship is an illegal mining ship, you figuring this plot out by going through the voice, text messages lying around the ship. Which really aren’t your fault because you couldn’t read the text from your primitive TV (that not meant to be offensive), and also there is an animation movie of Dead Space that I watched before the game which showed how its all happen, so I also got a little back story about it already.
As for the ripper weapon, again “mining plot”, they are literally mining the planet so there could be some tight spaces where you can’t reach with your short saw thingy, so I guess they made a way to extend it.
I do agree though that instead of just using money, you can just going around look for materials to make your own weapons and ammo. I don’t know if that affect game play in a positive or negative respond though, but to me that seem like a real good idea to make the game more interesting.

Well for the store, those most of the weapons are tools, the stores is like Home Depot and most of the info what what the tools are used for where in that art book

or here
http://deadspace.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Weapons

nice review i really want this game the weapons sound fun to use.

Spoony,
Love the whole stasis point its a very good point and makes a whole lot of sense. Wat i do want to no is how come the other 2 survivers and the 2 TRAINED MARINES that went with u were killed so damn fast not to mention how u have to do abvsolutly eveery thing in this game after u got the quarantine down yes i no im being a little stupid here but come on!

btw didnt no how else to get in contact so from wat ive seen of ur rants ther are ALOT of problems with mmorpgs and was wondering y u never touch them soooo mainly the huge problems lie with the particulary large game World of Warcraft just thought u mite want to touch base on that

The real question isn’t why is this stuff in the store, it’s why do you have to pay for things in this situation?

@Steve F

For the same reason in some places, you have to pay for an ambulance regardless of emergencies. Unless of course, you die.

The Ripper was ripped off from Unreal Tournament.

Dead Space is a great game ))
btw the ripper was my favourite weapon) and rifle too

yeah I agree with you spooney why can’t make these weapons out spare parts and weapon schematics. I only used plasma cutter,line gun and pulse rifle. I used ripper and flamethrower for a little while but I was low on credits so i sold those weapons I never used the contact beam I wish I did

the shoot gallery mini game is fun but kinda out of place why would Issac waste his time on a game but it did you free ammo,health and ruby semiconductor

I want to see anime prequel to this game it looks cool. I wish Issac could talk and also I hated those shoot the astriods with the cannon. The game scared me a few times as well

i heard that the weapons were created to be used llike engineer tools like the flamethrower or ripper were dangerous tools

Ok….SCIENCE
:)

Gah the small text thing! It has rendered my copy of Mass Effect 2 useless. Now I have to buy a 600.00 tv to play a 60.00 game. WHAT THE HELL!

in regards to the ripper the liandri corp. would like to have a few words

Ripper

Classification: Ballistic Blade Launcher
Effective Range: Short-Medium distance
Ammo on Pickup: 15
Maximum Ammo: 75

Fans of Unreal's Razorjack will be happy to know that it's making a strong comeback in Unreal Tournament, though with no less than a complete overhaul. The Ripper has been redesigned from the ground up, and whilst it's Primary attack method remains the same, it no longer supports the ability of being able to curve disk's trajectories by flicking the controls as it fires. Instead, the guys at Epic have added a special new feature to the blades themselves.

Feared by Unreal player's the world over, the sound of a fast-spinning razor-sharp disk embedding itself into human flesh echoes even louder in Unreal Tournament. The Ripper's primary fire accelerates a razordisk's rotation and instantly sends it spinning out in a straight flight path at a decent rate of speed. As disks come into contact with walls and other solid surfaces, they ricochet off, sent spinning again until either hitting flesh or is being damaged by too many ricochets. This attack is deadly when aimed at an opponent's neck, and can be used to take shots around corners and into places to which you may not have a direct line of sight.

It's the Ripper's Secondary attack which Unreal veterans aren't going to be familiar with – In Unreal Tournament the titanium disks fired by the Ripper come with a special surprise, this time they're packed with explosive. As an armed disk comes into contact with something, it will explode, in much the same way a rocket would. Also, like a rocket, the Ripper's Secondary attack can be employed when needing to gain a little extra height, by firing an explosive disk at your feet whilst executing a running jump. As with all splash damage weapons in Unreal Tournament, if in doubt, aim low so as to at least inflict some damage from the explosion if you don't make a direct hit.

“Mac wants the flamethrower!”

“Mac wants the what?!”

On the store… Okay, You are an engineer on a giant space station hired to make repairs on anything at any point on the station… a station so big you have to take a tram to get around… Another company sees how annoying it is for you to have to take the tram back to your engineering station every time you need more supplies for repairs… So a private company with engineering resources implements a series of privately owned supply stations that are all linked to a fairly large storage house on a rented part of the ship… So the company you work for gives you a card to pay for what you need on site from the supply company they would have bought it from anyway for you. That way they aren't buying more than they need and aren't responsible for more than just the engineers that they have employed. Make sense? I just came up with that… xD

i liked this game but it had one problem that turned me off of it. you never have to buy another gun after the first one you get. i started to go though the levels after i was done with the mission at hand. i found every thing i could sell what i don’t need and put all health and ammo for the one guy i have into the back up space in the store. then by the 3nd level i found my self with way to much money to know what to do with. then by the 7th level i had everything leveled up. i got another gun just to keep me working on something. in the end i did like the game a lot more then others that are out today.

About the weapons, yeah, they all have usage for their MINING work, it’s a MINING spaceship, built for MINING operations.
The store is just a normal hardware store, where you can buy better WORKING material, not weapons.
Well the pulse rifle is common ‘police’ weapon, still, normal stuff.
“Oxygen rich environment” not really, flamethrowers are not dangerous in a ship, ships don’t use pure oxygen since… decades I think. Since that time when astronauts cooked horribly inside the cockpit… yeah, it happened.

Isaac is the only one with an ENGINEER outfit, because he is an ENGINEER, and the only one who would need to go outside the ship to fix stuff. Telekinesis and the slowing thing are very useful for manipulating broken machinery IN SPACE, and they’re normal engineering/mining equipment. (all explained in-game)

The sci… UNItology story is awesome. In short, you missed the whole point of the game by not reading anything.

Dead Space, enough nuances from RE4 to be unique, at least they didn’t clone the controls like somebody did *cough*RE5*cough*

The mine with radial damage on the Line Gun might be used for something like excavating. Blowing up rock. Same use as dynamite? After all, the Ishamura was designed for planet cracking, and there is a colony below it. Surely they could use the alternate fire on the Line Gun down on the planet proper?

Ok. The Ripper. I cannot explain that one. It is awesome, though.

Marines might need a flame thrower. Aliens had flame throwers *shrugs*

try dead space 2

I just love how when you actually beat the game you can get a special armor that makes you look like a storm trooper. It just tickles me pink to no end. As I play my second time around I can’t help but say sometimes “halt in the name of the emperor!”
The game is easy to beat and I think that I could bump myself up to hardcore mode as soon as I beat hard.

I miss this version of Spoony so bad..