They might as well have called it Gears of Space, from the cover system to the machine guns even to all new enemies giant enemies that wouldn't look out of place during a locust invasion. It’s uncanny just how much Visceral tried to turn this franchise into a Gears of War clone. It’s clear that EA saw the success franchises like Uncharted and Gears were having and weren’t pleased with niche level of success that Dead Space and Dead Space 2 saw. It feels like Gears of War mixed with Uncharted style set pieces.Īs a matter of fact the first set piece that happens when a space ship you are aboard starts falling off the side of a snowy mountain feels identical to opening train scene from Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, which was released 4 years earlier. I can find a litany of things wrong with the game in just the first few minutes including the overwhelming recap, the poor voice acting or mainly how it doesn’t feel like Dead Space at all. If the first fifteen minutes are anything to go by then, nope I was right and this game is not good. I wanted to revisit this game and see if maybe I was too hard on it in 2013. Who knows what was happening in my life at that time or maybe with the first two games being as excellent as they were, the expectations were too high and could have led to a disappointment that wasn’t deserved.

There could be many reasons for not liking the third entry in the series including internal and external forces. It wasn’t the Dead Space I was expecting but being almost a decade removed from that experience, and with the recent announcement from EA about the revival of Dead Space, I was curious to see if Dead Space 3 is as bad as I remember it being. Sadly, this was also the last day that I played it because I remember losing interest in this game very fast. This would have meant that the first time I played Dead Space 3 was on February 5, 2013, on the day of release. Dead Space 3 was released just two short years later on February 5, 2013.

It didn’t shake up the formula too much and it just made most things great about the first game a little better. Although when leading up to the release of Dead Space 3, there was a little cause for concern, not only on how quickly it was developed after the second game was released but also that it was being developed with co-op in mind.ĭead Space 2 released on Januand it did what you want in a sequel. Why Did Dead Space 3 Fail? (Retrospective Review)īeing such a huge fanatic of the first two entires in the Dead Space series, I couldn’t wait to get my hands on the third entry.

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