If Dead Space 3 is a glimpse of gaming's future, we should all be a bit concerned-it stands as a perfect example of how the landscape is shifting under our very feet.Īs the game opens, Dead Space 3 finds engineer Isaac Clarke once again called upon to fight the evil alien Necromorph menace. Our hero is living in squalor, hiding from the world, and appears to be one step away from living on the street and telling pedestrians that Major League Baseball is trying to steal their thoughts. We're talking total "tinfoil hat" territory.
This third (and possibly final, based on estimated sales) entry in space engineer Isaac Clarke's story is proof positive of any number of unpleasant things that triple-A survival horror games are becoming a relic of gaming's past, that tampering too much with a good thing is a bad idea, and that the single-player experience has largely become an afterthought in big budget game development. The result is an unruly (and underwhelming) experience much-removed from the original title. The plot doesn't involve building a hulking monster out of various body parts, but the experience feels as though it was cobbled together from bits and pieces of other games.
If the original Dead Space was comparable to Ridley Scott's classic film Alien, then Dead Space 3 must be the series's inadvertent homage to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. WTF Ellie's romantic interests seem to change pretty easily. LOW Being forced to fight wave after wave of cannon fodder enemies in the game's multiple kill rooms. HIGH Dismembering Necromorphs still offers some visceral thrills.
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