Dead Space 3 is out soon but do you still miss shooting things in the face as Commander Shepard? Well now you can pretend you’re still playing Mass Effect thanks to N7 armour available to Isaac Clarke. If you’ve played Mass Effect 3 and have a save game on your console, you’ll automatically get the suit to wear when dismembering those Necromorphs. Buy Dead Space 3 now New: Buy Dead Space 3 from Amazon.com Related: Mass Effect, Mass Effect 3
After DICE’s Frostbite 2 engine has been used in Battlefield 3 and farmed out to other games such as Need for Speed: The Run, there are now rumours that it may also be used in Dead Space 3. Although not announced by EA, rumours abound that it’s happening thanks to job postings at EA’s Visceral studios and DICE’s rendering architect Johan Andersson tweeting that he’s off to visit a whole bunch of Frostbite-powered EA studios, the first one being Montreal where Visceral are based. Of course this is all conjecture but it Frostbite 2 is indeed powering Dead Space 3...
Dead Space 2: Severed is available now on Xbox 360 for 560 Microsoft points. The expansion pack for Dead Space 2 features two standalone chapters featuring Gabe Weller from Dead Space Extraction that run parallel to the events in Dead Space 2. Buy Dead Space 2 now New: Buy Dead Space 2 from Amazon.com Related: Dead Space 2, Dead Space Extraction
Finally Dead Space 2 is here and after going to countless preview events and chatting to the guys that made it I finally get to play it. Thankfully, it doesn’t disappoint. Once again you step into the engineering suit of Isaac Clarke as you wake up in a straight jacket on a space station called The Sprawl above the moon of Titan. All hell’s breaking loose and of course there are plenty of Necromorphs to dismember along the way. This time Isaac has a face and a voice which adds an extra layer of character and makes you care more...
PC / PS3 / Release dates / Xbox 360
2 Jul, 2010
The original Dead Space was a unique third person shooter that used the darkness and sudden music cues to great effect. At the time I described it as Resident Evil 5 set on a space ship and two years later the analogy still fits. Dead Space extraction on the Wii was an on-rails first person shooter which acted as a prequel to the original and was equally as good at setting a scary atmosphere, even without HD graphics. Dead Space 2 returns next year and promises more spooky happenings as well as another ton of Necromorphs to slay in the...
Dead Space was one of my surprise favourite games last year so I’ve been looking forward to Dead Space Extraction on the Wii – a prequel which charts where all the horror on the cracked planet and in the mining vessel the Ishimura began. It’s an on-rails FPS but before you think this is just like Time Crisis or House of the Dead, let me explain to you why it’s very much not. Extraction has a much more considered approach in that there are times where you don’t shoot anything whilst the atmosphere builds as you’re taken for a ride...