Dead Space 3

Dead Space franchise goes out with a whimper and not a bang. Before we had this series of beautiful immersive beyond belief third person shooter survival horror games and what do we get? This.

Dead Space 3 is about Isaac and the alien cult markers are back now his schizophrenic brain must stop the evil aliens and save the girl!!

Dead Space 3 doesn't need to be scary. But it wouldn't hurt to be scary.

The gameplay in Dead Space 3 on paper sounds nice with realistic guns but in practice is really dull and generic. Fending off aliens one by one with guns and is full of dumb set pieces. There is bad pacing all about.

Unlocking items in Dead Space 3 is a chore because after you beat the entire game there are certain unlockables that you have to unlock like 256 colors mode by playing on nightmare. Just download Reshade if you're on PC.

Of all the AAA games in 2013 Dead Space seems to be the least remarkable because it's graphics are covered in frost but demonstrate nothing noteworthy except maybe for a strong art direction.

Overall Dead Space 3 loses wind within 2 hours of it's run time. Just play it to get it over with.

okay it's still early in the year and there's plenty of great titles coming out this year including the highly anticipated Bioshock:Infinite, most games that came out in late 2012 and most games coming out this year even will have a hard time competing with this absolute perfect sequel to the Dead Space series.

The game starts off with a lot of action much like the second game in the series, and boy does it deliver. The action is intense and the graphics are the best I have seen in a long time, along with some of the most beautiful backdrops in gaming history. the game has plenty of side quest along with great back story's with the characters involved in the side quest enough to keep you playing for hours and hours just with the side quest alone, they also blend with the main story very nicely if i do say so myself.

the voice acting was done greatly with plenty of emotion and plenty of feeling, it really helps the game shine along with something everyone will love, the new, never seen before weapon crafting system. This system is amazing and you will find yourself spending hours on end just making new weapons with the materials found throughout the game, for example: I made a fully automatic bull pup rifle with attached shotgun underneath and for my sidearm(which it doesn't have to be a sidearm if you want you can add another primary weapon)I constructed a revolver with a very strong bayonet. with that being said the weapon crafting is genius and my hats off to visceral games for adding it in the game.

one thing I hear people complaining about is the co-op system, a lot of people i talk to think that the co-op will mean that when someone isn't playing along with you that their will be an annoying AI character next to you the whole time much like resident evil started doing in 4-6, however this is not the case. They kept it old school Dead Space with the frightening feeling of being alone all the time...if you choose to play campaign alone the AI character will leave after every cut scene which like i said leaves you completely alone the entire game, so no worries to those who are worried cause i was worried at first to ^_^

the game features plenty of upgrades with a great story, great voice acting and very good graphics all put together to make a perfect Action/survival horror game.

Im surprised that it only received an 8.3 on here when the first two stand at a solid 9.0, simply because this is the best one of the series! game informer gives a nice 9.75/10 and most other professional game reviewers give it a high as hell rating with no complaints

I say this is a must for all dead space fans and a must for anyone looking to play an amazing action/survival horror game

DO NOT!! miss out on this absolute perfect gem of a sequel from the Dead Space franchise

I enjoyed Dead Space as it was a fun outer space horror game. I enjoyed the second one as well, though it was a bit more action oriented. This one I just cannot get into at all. It just does not work for me as I was wanting to play something along the lines of the first two games. A fun horror survival game set in space where I blast some enemies, do some stuff to survive and win the game. Unfortunately, this one changed some stuff as it apparently wanted to focus on making this more of a co-op game this time around so the overstuffed the game with enemies and if you are playing solo you spend most of the time swinging around Issac Clarke this way and that trying to find where the enemies are coming from and maybe spot one and it starts running to you, whereas you cannot usually run because the way behind you is blocked, by another oncoming enemy! To make matters worse, the effectiveness of the weapons in this one have been greatly reduced. In the first two games I literally used the plasma cutter as much as possible because I loved the way it blew the monsters limbs off...here, it does not work nearly as well. The rail gun was another favorite, I could take out multiple monster's legs with one shot! Not this time, one shot barely slows down a rushing enemy this time around. They made this one more frustrating than ever for me and I just could not get into it this time so I never even made it to the planet where apparently you still get the same thing from what I've read as the enemies burst out of the snow there rather than the countless air vents they keep coming out of in the space portion of the game.

The story has Issac in rather poor shape. He apparently hooked up with the gal from the second game only to have her dump him. He suddenly finds himself running for his life as the religion that worships the markers are coming after him and things are deteriorating quickly! This portion of the game was rather fun as it was running here and there battling enemies that did not come out of nowhere as you and a couple of military guys escape the planet. You then head to an ice planet where another marker lurks and you have seen in a prologue before we see where Issac has ended up. Issac must first though go from broken down ship to broken down ship trying to find Ellie and then finding another ship which I assume would be used to get to the planet below, but I gave up before reaching the planet's surface.

The game play has changed and most of it is not for the better. As I said the weapons suck now, the only bright point being the fact that they all share the same ammo now, but then again it was more fun in the first two games switching between the various weapons when you ran low on one ammo or another. Upgrading the weapons and your suit was easier too. Now, the suit is the same for the most part, but the weapons not so much. There is a neat thing you can do by literally combining weapons as I had a pulse rifle with a rail gun attached, but due to the fact the weapons now suck this should of been awesome weapon is reduced to a gun that cannot kill enemies before they are on top of you and you have to go through the press X mini game! The enemies may as well be invisible too as the final straw for me was this one room with a shuttle. I had to gather three pieces to make some sort of circuit for said shuttle. I keep going through the room and enemies keep popping up out of nowhere as all the shifts in this fleet have five million ventilation shafts for the enemies to drop you and gain the advantage along with their amazing speed. Well I gathered all the pieces and I heard what sounded like a horde of enemies so I went to the place to assemble the part. Before I tried I look this way and that way. I readied my weapon and walked around hearing the sounds of the damned, but nothing came. So I went to the bench and pressed the button to assemble the part when a creature hits me from the side out of nowhere.

So no, I am not digging this game at this point. If I play it later and win it, my score may improve, but right now, I am finding it a very frustrating and annoying game. They added optional missions in this one to make it the longest game of the three, but length does not mean goodness as there was nothing all that rewarding about completing the optional missions. I got pieces to add to my weapons that would have helped my nonexistent partner. I was playing solo so all the ammo I expended on the extra mission was completely wasted. I am just baffled as to how such a great series seems to have gone to crap, but part of me realizes it is that desire by an American gaming company to turn something into a Call of Duty/multiplayer type game.

It's hard to imagine a single person would try to face cannibalistic limb-hacking acid-spewing Necromorphs for the third time whilst barely survived the first two encounters, then I saw his ex-girlfriend admirable physique, it's clear that the promise of beauty defeats the threat of beast. Isaac Clarke, now depressed, tries to mend his relationship, stay alive and save the world in one fell swoop. That means a destined reunion with the savage monsters once again, being scared, a little less this time, by paranoid-inducing sound and rearranging useful tools for homicidal purpose. Dead Space 3 is a solid game, although sadly not as good as the prequel.

Even though the settings are less riveting than previous ones, especially towards the latter half of the game, but it does have some breathtaking pieces. With most parts featuring either spaceships rustic interior or abandoned icy planet, it seems dull in comparison with Dead Space 2. The scare isn't prominent anymore, there are only a few creepy moments, and that's not nearly the level of previous ones. At some points, the game even looks like it's a B-rate sci-fi flick.

Visual and motion are good, it doesn't change much from practical no HUD display. Lighting in dark areas are accommodating for the fright as darker places must be aimed, thus forcing you to focus your attention elsewhere when the Necromorphs could assume their attack. They do so in religiously frantic fashion, more often sprinting right up to your face. This will be a problem since the camera is just as hectic in extreme close-up, not very accommodating for survival. Characters facial isn't that impressive as well, they look inconsistently and a bit rigid at several events.

Designs for enemies don't differ much, aside for the addition of more human-like foes. Players will most likely have reminiscence of the previous games, up until some corpses decide to pick up axes and try to be dangerously intimate. A minor issue comes in the form of weight detection mechanism, things and dead bodies often hover about like they possess little to no weight, and occasionally stuck in your feet as you try to squeeze last bit of ammo or health pack they had. There are also some glitches, such as Isaac trapped in a corner, fell to oblivion, items reappearing or characters disappearing.

Gameplay has diversified due to new weapon crafting system. Unlike the old days when you must content with pre-designed arsenal, you can now assemble your own weapons with frames, tools, circuits and more, creating a freedom of what combination of arsenal you will have. Frame decides what parts it could assemble into, light or heavy, and what addition stat it would carry. Lighter frames can't support heavy parts, so while having rocket launcher with plasma cutter is an amazing idea, unfortunately it's not physically possible.

It may sound complex compared with the old stick-power-node-in-it system, but give it some time. When you're familiar with it, the new system is very useful, and it simplifies the gameplay drastically as now you only have two slots, but up to four weapons in play. Ammo pack is now usable to every weapon correspondingly, for example, firings a few rounds from weapons with higher ammo capacity will use the same amount of one grenade in comparison.

Core of the game is unchanged, plow through hordes of Necromorphs until certain objectives are met. They are somewhat faster this time, though it's more of a frantic scare and less of frightening suspense. Limb chopping is still the key to survival, Telekinesis is as strong as ever and doesn't require ammo, but I often find myself unable to find some brooms, pipes of some sort of serendipitously placed items to throw at them, not to mention the axe-wielding bunch drop their axes in tight precarious positions.

Co-op doesn't dampen the single player experience, although there are few side missions that require a teammate to complete. The size of the game is larger than previous ones, more areas to explore, some side missions here and there and lengthier story. Boss battles are few but well done. Although even with these improvements, I can't help but noticing the lack of thrill, imposing atmosphere and that gripping terror that once decorated previous titles.

Sound department is doing their best to establish the scare, creaking noise of closed doors, unusual hums that might or might not be lurking hostiles, or blatant scream thirsts for your blood. It's just the setting doesn't invoke such ambiance, and after some time the effect wears off significantly.

Dubbing is solid, I especially like Ellie's and Danik's accent. Isaac sounds so tired, yet lingering hope for reconciliation remains. There's not much of dying message to increase the sense of danger though. Music is bare, nothing stands out too much, it does work for more subtle approach. Sound effect delivers the gore adequately, the sound of bone-crunching of your enemies' demise is utterly satisfying.

Playtime will take approximately twenty hours, multiple new game+ are available afterwards. Story isn't really up to par with the predecessors, at the latter part of the game just trudged with little expectation ahead. Dead Space 3 offers more diverse gameplay with crafting, all the basics are intact, but sadly it loses some of the horror allure.

Graph: Interesting graphic display in larger areas, good designs throughout, but some awkward glitches or motions dwindle the value.7.5/10 Sound : Voice actors deliver their performance well, eerie voices and sound effects are ever-present. 8/10 Gameplay: Great crafting addition, more varied resources and weapon usage while preserving the core of its fast action. 8.5/10 Presentation : Sadly it's only a low level of intimidating atmosphere. The new story offers longer experience but with less substance. 6/10 Overall 7.5

This is a phenomenal game, yes there are some differences from the second game, which was a masterpiece, but this is a brilliant game in its own right, the story is great, as are the graphics and gameplay.

I truly love the Dead Space games they are so much better than people give them credit.

I'd love it if visceral returned and created a sequel, I'd buy it.