Dead Space & a Glitch to Rant About

So I am playing Dead Space. (I will just skip the part about how awesome this game is and how everyone should play it. Its not that scary. Great game experience.) I'm about to finish the game (I'm on chapter 9 out of 12) before I have to return the game to Blockbuster in a few hours. I kill a boss and I'm running down a hallway till I reach a locked door with a slot to plug in a battery to open it. I begin my search for said battery. Nowhere to be seen. I run back the way I came to a locked door. I pace back and forth between the two doors three or four times and see no battery. Thinking its just a easily fixable glitch I let myself die and reload the area.

I do this and there is still no battery. I then turn off my game and load my last save game. I beat the boss again, get to the hallway and there is still no battery to open the door. What the eff? I pause the game and hop on my computer to search the web. I find that this is normal and that people have fixed it by going back to chapter 8 and playing through chapter 9 all over again. Some people said they had to restart the game completely. I was about six and a half hours in. Awesome. I popped the disc out and returned it to Blockbuster.

Something like this should be found as a bug during development and testing. Or, since this game has been out for a year, should have been patched by now. A simply amazing game broke so I couldn't advance any further and wouldn't let me finish. Sad news bears.

Seriously though, pick up this game, its only $20 now and you probably won't have this happen to you. If I would have paid to rent the game I would have complained for my money back, but meh.