Dead Space 3 review

[Jazzy]

The third entry in EA's sci-fi horror series exchanges scares for action, but is still an entertaining and atmospheric thriller.



The Dead Space series has been known for prioritising terror over the more base thrills of explosive gaming blockbusters. The first games' love-letter to sci-fi horror movies like Event Horizon, The Thing and Alien delivered EA a cult hit from an audience demanding nerve-shredding tension.



But with success inevitably comes escalation and, as EA announced Dead Space 3, complete with co-op multiplayer, swearing military types, giant tentacled beasties and booming weaponry, fans of the first two games wondered just where the terror had gone. And sure enough, there's little of it to be found in Dead Space 3.



While it's natural and right to mourn the loss of yet another survival-horror, focussing on what Dead Space 3 isn't does a disservice to what it is: a consistently entertaining sci-fi action game.

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Any Dead Space fans? If so, will you be buying this one?