To Yahtzee's gripe about the bland environment - it's supposed to be like that. Like an aircraft carrier or something similar, that ship is a utilitarian, working environment, not a day spa or something.
I think this review is a classic example of "Yahtzee bitching for the sake of bitching", regardless of whether the game is actually any good or not. He even said it himself, he's taking his frustration at Silent Hill out on Dead Space. And it cribbed notes from other horror pieces, so what? Wasn't Yahtzee's point n click game, the horror one on the space station, pretty much a ripoff of Event Horizon too?