Introduction:
If you’ve read my coverage of the earlier games in this franchise, then you know that I consider Dead Space to be a great game and Dead Space 2 to be a very good game (albeit worse than the first). If you haven’t read those articles, well, that’s a fine summary right there. Dead Space 3, however, is not great or very good. It’s alright. It’s a fine game . . .
Frankly, I don’t like Dead Space 3. I think the ways it handles things, and especially the specific ways it departs from its older siblings, are ill-advised to the point of stupidity—and this article is a list of ways that’s the case.
[Game: Dead Space 3, Visceral Games, 2013]
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