![]() I admit to enjoying the ice world of Tau Volantis, which invokes The Thing. The addition of human enemies also undermines Isaac Clarke's character a bit as he slaughters his way through numerous Unitologist enemies led by a villain which I charitably believe is one of the worst I've ever seen. The Necromorphs are also much faster, which does much to detract from the slow building terror of previous games. The addition of guns versus the use of converted power tools feels like a step backwards honestly. Gone is the focus on precision shooting of limbs with a new emphasis on simply filling the Necromorphs with as much lead as possible. The combat is quite changed from the original Dead Space and is, in my humble opinion, inferior. Too much of the game is spent on the love triangle between her, Isaac, and Norton despite the fact the latter is little more than a third wheel destined to do something psychotic. Here, she's unarmed, emotional, idealistic, and mostly helpless with her piloting as well as combat skills having disappeared. Ellie was one of my favorite characters from Dead Space 2, tough and uncompromising wiith a morally dubious set of values chiefly focused on survival. The biggest flaw with the game is probably its handling of the characters. Oh, and also deal with the fact he's jealous of Ellie and her jerkass boyfriend. From there, Isaac struggles to piece together the planet's connection to the Necromorphs and the Markers. Yeah, I get the impression Dead Space 3 went through a lot of rewrites as the next part of the game is a creeptacular starship's graveyard which would have made an excellent setting for the rest of the game but which quickly changed to the rest of the game being set on a Hoth-like ice planet. Which they promptly abandon for another location.Įllie is made four times as sexy with half the competence. Isaac is then kidnapped by the "last battalion of EarthGov" who reveal the Unitologists have overthrown the government (which Isaac seems to have missed) before they unleash a Marker on Luna. ![]() This resulted in Isaac and Ellie's breakup off-screen, meaning we've never actually seen the two in a relationship save as backstory. Unfortunately, this is not something Ellie is up for as she's undergone a personality change from the ruthless survival-orientated soldier of Dead Space 2 to a heroic do-gooder who wants to stop the Markers at all costs. The premise of the game is Isaac Clarke has spent the past three years in hiding on Luna in hopes of escaping EarthGov as well as the Unitologist's insanity. It's unfortunate as the series was still quite enjoyable and one not-even-bad-but-just-sort-of-okay game shouldn't put the kibosh on an entire franchise. However, Electronic Arts decided this was under-performing and more or less put the kibosh on the series for the indefinite future. ![]() Ironically, Dead Space 3 sold roughly twice as many copies as both its predecessors put together. It was controversial (to say the least) with old-school Dead Space fans. The starship graveyard is the best part of the game. Finally, sections of the game are only playable in co-op and there's the option of microtransactions to craft the best weapons. There's a tacked-on love triangle between Isaac Clarke, his former partner Ellie, and a psychotic EarthGov military officer which hardly needs to be explained as ending in our hero's favor. There's numerous bosses which require puzzle techniques to defeat rather than simply expenditure of ammo. There's cover-based shooting as well as combat rolls. EarthGov, previously an evil fascist state which set most of the horrible events in motion, is re-imagined as a noble ally of Isaac Clarke out to stop the Necromorphs. There's shooting segments with guns rather than repurposed tools as well as human enemies rather than just Necromorphs. That is in large part due to the financial difficulties at Electronic Arts but more particularly due to the mixed reception of this game.ĭead Space 3 is a big transition from the previous games. It released three very well-received video games (though not without controversy), a pair of animated movies, many comic books, and quite a bit of merchandise before essentially ceasing to exist as a franchise. Dead Space is a series which changed the way horror video games were made.
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