NECA Dead Space Action Figure Isaac (Bloodied)

dig the LED light!
A good friend of mine just bought me this figure because he knew that I was a big Dead Space fan. One of the coolest parts about the game was how awesome Isaac Clarke looked with his neo-samurai armor and his creepy blue LED helmet. This figure is a perfect recreation of the character in the game and it's extremely pose-able(20 points of articulation!) . The best feature is that Isacc's helmet and health bar on his back light up by pressing a button on his shoulder. It looks really creepy in the dark. I hope that NECA considers releasing a line of Dead Space figures. Maybe they could make a figure for each armor level in the game and give each one a different weapon? just throwing that out there. This is a great figure. Perfect for fans of the game of for people you just enjoy collecting creepy figures. It's an instant favorite to my collection.

Dead Spaced
I have a disturbing secret. Shhhh... *I've never played Dead Space*. However, I know a cool action figure when I see one and while I'm not normally one to pick up figures from properties I'm unfamiliar with I could tell this one was worth a look. This is Isaac in the "bloodied" version with his really large hand saw.

For kids:
If your kid has played this video game and likes action figures then this one is a no brainer. In addition to looking cool he's very pose-able, comes with a great accessory and has lights. I will say that the box says 17 and up on it but I think this is more to advertise that this is for collectors but it's still a toy and younger kids would have a blast with him as well.

For adults:
This is an NECA toy and they typically run the line between good sculpt and paint and just enough articulation. This time they found a perfect balance.

The Sculpt is immaculate. The suit has many different textures ranging from cloth-like to metallic. The helmet is superb and the ribbed sections of his torso and right arm are really cool and full of detail. The spine and raised sections on his back are also pretty eye popping. The only detail I don't like is his left hand which is in a kind of wimpy pose - just a flat open palm. A fist or more menacing hand pose would have looked more action packed to me. The right hand is sculpted to hold his accessory.

He looks like a rough and tumble type of guy and he's got a rough and tumble type of suit which means the rough paint looks perfect. Not that there's any slop at all. I especially like the rust colored areas which are done so well that it really looks like rusted metal and not painted plastic. Granted the color palate is a bit drab with brown, rust, grey and black but there are some red bloody splotches as well. There's a smattering of white flecks as well. His is a nice and complex paint job.

With around 21 points of articulation he can take many cool poses. He's got ball jointed head, shoulders and elbows which can bend and rotate. Both hands rotate and the left arm has a cut at the bicep to rotate. The waist swivels and rotates and he's got the cool hip joints that allow for forward and back and out movement (very much like DC Universe figures). He's got cut thighs, single pin knees and his feet swivel and rotate a bit. For NECA that A LOT of joints making him much more versatile.

His accessory is a big honking circle saw with a bloody blade. Seriously its huge and has lots of detail with wires and sculpted details and a great paint job in several colors, silver, black, yellow, green and red (blood). Heck, it's more colorful than the figure it goes with. This accessory was the main reason I picked this one up as opposed to the regular version that has a gun. I have figures with guns - none with giant circle saws!

Lastly he has a great light up feature. Push a button on his back and his face plate lights up and part of the spine on his back. The spine looks great and so does the face plate although in a lighted room the face plate is a little subdued but that's to be expected.

This is a great figure and definitely worth picking up.