Dead Space 3 brings Isaac Clarke and merciless soldier, John Carver, on a journey across space to discover the source of the Necromorph outbreak. Crash-landed on the frozen planet of Tau Volantis, the pair must comb the harsh environment for raw materials and scavenged parts. Isaac will then put his engineering skills to the ultimate test to create and customize weapons and survival tools. The ice planet holds the key to ending the Necromorph plague forever, but first the team must overcome avalanches, treacherous ice-climbs, and the violent wilderness. Facing deadlier evolved enemies and the brutal elements, the unlikely pair must work together to save mankind from the impending apocalypse.
GenreAction
Platforms xbox360
DEVELOPER Visceral Games | PUBLISHER Codemasters | RELEASE DATE
Dead Space 3 Reviews xbox360
theglobeandmail.com review
Los Perdidos itself isn’t as big an open world as those found in other similar games, but with its humour and excellent execution of next-generation console technology, it feels more alive than most. Which is ironic for a game about dead people.
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gameinformer.com review
Visceral laid the foundation for a terrific horror series with the first Dead Space. The clean, HUD-less presentation, dismemberment-focused gunplay, and expertly crafted derelicts have made each successive entry feel ahead of its time. Dead Space 3 evolves the winning formula into a title not only befitting of the fantastic series, but also one of the best games of this generation.
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gamingnexus.com review
What’s so great about this experience is how seamlessly it adjusts to the circumstances. The inventory is persistent, which means you can use the same crafted weapons in your solo playthrough as you do in co-op, provided you’re in the same save file. Pick up a weapon part in one game and join a friend’s game after saving, and you’ll still have that plasma tool. If you begin a chapter cooperatively as Carver, you’ll become Isaac, complete with your personal inventory, as soon as your partner jumps ship.
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polygon.com review
Dead Space 3 is a monster of a game. Visceral avoided major deviations from the gameplay loop established by the previous games, instead choosing to refine those mechanics. But it has made major, substantive additions to the game’s structure that make Dead Space 3 feel much more ambitious. Even more surprisingly, it has successfully executed on all of them. Visceral hasn’t just avoided screwing up its game with co-op — it has made it feel natural and at home, and has done it without impacting the single-player experience in any negative way. That alone would be enough to make Dead Space 3 an achievement. But the new crafting system and bigger, more open level structure join co-op to make Dead Space 3 one of the best action games in years.
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gamerstemple.com review
Dead Space 3 is a definite buy if you’re a fan of the Dead Space series and even if you’re not. If you are like me and had doubts about the game based on the demo that was released a few weeks prior to its release then just know that the full game is much better than the demo. The demo is actually not even a full part of the game – the areas are all reconstructed and placed in a different order in the full game. All of the horror atmosphere that was in the past games is all still in Dead Space 3 and the game is still very much a single player campaign, or you can play it in its optional co-op campaign to see the story with some additional insight on John Carver’s character. Dead Space 3 is one action horror game that knows how to include co-op and not limit the single player experience!
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destructoid.com review
Dead Space 3 could have been the best entry in the series, and in many ways, it still does provide some of the franchise’s most energetic, thrilling, entertaining moments. The changes thrown into the game inevitably damage its charm, though, and make this a step down from its predecessors. A step down from Dead Space’s high standards don’t necessarily make for a bad game — far from it, in fact, for this is still a bloody great game and well worth any fans’ time. It’s sad that market pressure and industry fear tried so hard to ruin things, but one can at least savor the victory of Dead Space 3’s creative success in spite of commercial encroachment.
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venturebeat.com review
Playing in the dark with headphones on accentuates this threat: The most dangerous Necromorphs are those you can hear but can’t see. Their guttural, animal-like roars and shrill high-pitched screams serve as a prelude to their inevitable anxiety-inducing appearance. The addition of new monsters toward the end — like the Twitcher, an extremely fast Necromorph that you have to slow down with your Stasis ability first — keeps the combat from being anything but routine.
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egmnow.com review
Finally, I could do without the revamped inventory system that only allows you to carry two weapons at a time and the universal ammo that hearkens back to more traditional sci-fi shooters. Part of the fun of the first two games was managing your reserves so that you didn’t end up with nothing more than a handful of bullets while surrounded by Necromorphs. For every great new feature, it feels like Visceral sacrificed several critical elements that helped Dead Space stand out from the crowd.
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eurogamer.net review
Dead Space 3 is a contradiction. Gorgeous but scruffy; tightly packed yet stretched too thin; often frustrating, frequently thrilling and bursting at the seams with stuff, not all of which fits comfortably inside the boundaries the series has set for itself. It’s certainly not a great game, except perhaps as a poster child for the kitchen-sink development mentality of a console generation in its twilight months. But it does manage to balance out every misstep with something worthwhile. Sadly, newcomers with no preconceptions will likely enjoy this rollercoaster more than the series’ fans.
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oxm.co.uk review
Co-op can’t be ignored entirely – those who brave the horrors of Tau Volantis in pairs will glean new insights on both Clarke and Carver, via a handful of co-op-only side missions and some jarring character-specific hallucinations. All in all, however, Visceral has made good on its promise not to let the feature scupper the franchise’s trademark claustrophobia – that soul-withering awareness that the environment itself wants your head on a prong. Much as with the cover system, you need never know it’s there.
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edge-online.com review
He’s voiced by the wonderful Simon Templeman who manages to imbue the character with sinister nobility. Danik has enjoined his followers to kill you for your part in destroying a handful of Unitology’s revered Markers, ancient artefacts that channel nearly unlimited energy but also generate a host of crazy-making side effects in those who linger in their company.
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gamesradar.com review
As a solo experience, Dead Space 3 is the weakest entry in the series. The tension’s still there, but it’s the kind you can kill bullet by bullet until nothing is left except the dull pangs of tedium. But when you’re dismembering Necromorphs with a friend at your side, it becomes a greatly enjoyable cooperative adventure. Just don’t expect to feel much of that distantly familiar fear-based anxiety–in Dead Space 3, that’s one terrifying monster that’s nowhere to be found.
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gamereactor.dk review
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gamereactor.se review
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giantbomb.com review
Dead Space 3 incorporates some successful new ideas into its stock horror-action formula, and some segments of the game really impressed me, but it’s hard not to feel disappointed by the weaker parts of its design. I’m still glad I saw the Dead Space trilogy through to the end–and if you’re invested in the series it’s absolutely worth playing–but it’s too bad this respectable series, which felt so exciting and fresh when it debuted just a few years ago, had to go out on a middling note.
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metro.co.uk review
Dead Space 3 is a game that tries to be all things to all people, but rather than being a recipe for disaster it’s merely one for unremarkable competence. Except for the horror element it’s hard to argue that the game gets anything very wrong, but neither does it hit the bullseye of the many other targets it aims at.
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videogamer.com review
Dead Space 3 isn’t a let down because Visceral decided to turn it into an action game. No one can tell them what Dead Space ‘is’ – they decide to make whatever game they want. And there is enough lore and scope to make Dead Space an action game, even if that choice is probably a poor one. Dead Space 3 is a let down because it’s not a very good action game, and a really substandard horror game. It is devoid of ideas, hung up on laborious combat and obsessed with making even the exciting seem boring. In truth, it’s a bit of a shocker.
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