This leads to my second major complaint the overwhelming difficult. My solo pass through the game took 26 hours, although much of that was from dying and retrying certain areas.

If you are playing the co-op campaign there will be even more co-op exclusive areas and missions to complete, and when you factor in all of the optional secondary missions you could easily spend 35-40 hours finishing this game. The story starts dragging around the 15-hour mark, there is excessive backtracking through previously explored areas, and new sections of the game are blatantly using cookie-cutter room and passage configurations with minor set redressing. Dead Space 3 is long…prohibitively long in my opinion. Then you have a substantial portion of the game that takes place in space as you explore the various ships floating around the minefield before heading down to the planet for the rest of the game. Teaming up with fellow survivor, Ellie and a group of scientists, Isaac goes in search of the Marker’s home world, a distant planet lying just beyond a massive space minefield that has turned the area into a ship graveyard.ĭead Space 3 is quite cinematic in its presentation, starting with a brief tutorial on Tau Volantis, just to tease you with the icy adventure ahead, then its back to Earth for a few levels that looks like something taken from Blade Runner meets Fifth Element. The power of the Markers has been infused into Isaac’s mind, which makes him the prime target of the Unitology cult religious fanatics that see necromorphism as the next stage of our evolution, but it also makes Isaac Earth’s only hope. Isaac Clarke is back once again as the ultimate survivor of two horrific stories involving ancient alien Markers that radiate some power that turns the living insane and the dead into grotesque necromorphs.

Most of Dead Space 3 will be taking place on a planet so bone-chillingly cold it’s like having Lost Planet, Hoth, and Kurt Russell’s, The Thing, all rolled into one. That’s right…no more derelict space ships or abandoned space stations. The developers have taken an interesting direction for this latest installment, not only integrating a heavy dose of cooperative campaign play but also taking the adventure planetside. I love survival horror, especially when it’s set in the solitude of outer space, and Visceral Games has consistently delivered on that formula for two games and is now attempting a third, as they wrap up this bold trilogy of terror. Dead Space is without a doubt one of my favorite next-gen game franchises.

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