dead space series review Dead Space: Extraction

It’s not just the enemies that have carried over from one game to the next – your arsenal in Extraction is nearly the same as in Dead Space, but with a couple notable additions. Enemies move a bit slower and stay on-screen longer in Extraction than in most light gun games, but that only encourages you to set up your shots rather than play by reflexes alone. It owes much of this to the Dead Space universe itself, which gave us creatures that have to be strategically dismembered to be stopped. Though anyone who’s spent any time with Time Crisis will be able to immediately pick up a controller and play, Extraction feels more refined than any of its rail shooter predecessors. The game has the rare distinction of dovetailing almost perfectly with its predecessor while never feeling like it’s treading old ground.Įxtraction‘s light gun-based gameplay strikes a similarly studied balance.

And while the relentless gloom of the first game is partly diminished by your comrades near constant banter – Extraction apparently boasts five times the dialogue of its predecessor – these exchanges help flesh out the world of the U.S.G. These changes to the Dead Space formula point to a more story-driven approach to the series.

In a similar departure from the original Dead Space‘s suffocating isolation, you spend the bulk of Extraction in a group of other survivors, and while they aren’t much help in the combat department, they’re welcome company when things start to get spooky. Unlike the first entry in the series, Extraction‘s story isn’t tethered to a single character rather, you’ll play as one of four different characters at certain points in the story, sometimes for just a single level. Extraction takes place in the days prior to the events of the original Dead Space.

Dead space series review Dead Space: Extraction