Best of 2008 - #8 Dead Space (PS3)

Dead Space will remind you of many games: Resident Evil, Half Life, Resistance and list will continue depending on what other games you've played.
You control Isaac Clarke, an engineer member of a spaceship responding to a distress call sent by the USG Ishimura, a massive mining ship (it actually cuts giant chunks of planets to extract its minerals)
Of course, when Isaac and the crew arrive to the Ishimura, they are welcomed by a series of horrible ailen-like monsters that they must defeat.
Where the game shines is in its presentation, the first thing you will notice is that there's no hud. All the information you need will be displayed on Isaac's suit (Energy) and on each one of the guns (Ammo). All the cutscenes are either displayed via the suit's holographic projector or in game as you encounter different characters in the Ishimura. You also collect diferent logs along the game (audio, video and text) which add so much to the game making the experience richer. Even the "weapons" are actually tools that have other pusposes than "killing the monsters". All of them (including your suit) can be upgraded using "Power Nodes", which add an extra level of strategy deciding how are you going to spend them.
The atmosphere is amazing as well: flickering lights, far away noises, dark corridors make this game very scary.
With all these said, I can't recommend this game enough.