{"id":1043,"date":"2014-02-05T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-05T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shadowcovenant.com\/blog\/?p=1043"},"modified":"2014-02-05T13:02:19","modified_gmt":"2014-02-05T12:02:19","slug":"dead-space-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shadowcovenant.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/05\/dead-space-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Dead Space 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Since I was very disappointed with Dead Space 2, this one really surprised me, since it was way better than the one before (and maybe even on-par to the first one).<\/p>\n

In this one, the story actually evolves and more is found out about the Markers\u2026 The characters are a bit grating and one-dimensional; Isaac is particularly one-dimensional: \u201cI won\u2019t do it\u2026 Oh, the girl wants me to do it? That\u2019s ok then!\u201d\u2026 Love triangle in the middle of a gruesome horror infection story: nope, it doesn\u2019t work, it\u2019s not believable. Human beings are driven by their hormones, that\u2019s true, but fear\/terror overrides that, it\u2019s just the way we\u2019re wired from a biological standpoint!<\/p>\n

Anyway, the game itself is more of the same: shoot infected monstrosities on the limbs, find out about the mystery-de-jour. They\u2019ve added a \u201cmake-your-weapon\u201d mechanic, but it\u2019s so terribly implemented from a game design perspective that I just stuck with the initial weapon (modded with circuits), upgraded the body for the \u201cPlanetary\u201d-something for more circuit slots, and after I got the probe-gun, I just used that\u2026 <\/p>\n

Designing your own weapons might be nice, if it wasn\u2019t so trial-and-error\u2026 I build a weapon (with very little information on the results along the way), then I tried, found out it was terrible, rinse-and-repeat, and in the process lost precious resources. So, I gave up on it after a bit, really\u2026 Seems like a system suited for the \u201cpay-to-win\u201d thing they have (which I don\u2019t care much about, but didn\u2019t spoil my fun).<\/p>\n

Boss fights on this one were not as stupid as the last one from Dead Space 2, but they weren\u2019t interesting\u2026 I feel like I\u2019ve been fighting the same boss over and over again (and I think I was, the story was too broken for me to understand that).<\/p>\n

Lastly, the terror component is not present since the first game\u2026 I understand it\u2019s hard to keep the tension when you have to let people actually shoot stuff (instead of the solitary stalking on the first \u201cAlien\u201d movie), so it\u2019s kind of a difficult position to be (making the 3rd game in a terror series). So, Dead Space became a new shooter, just a bit different because it\u2019s not space marines\u2026Maybe a cosmetic change, but a welcome one.<\/p>\n

It might seem that I didn\u2019t appreciate the game, but it was actually enjoyable (I\u2019m just hyper-critic). It entertained me for 14 hours or so, although it\u2019s a highly repetitive game (horror stories aren\u2019t usually very complex, revolving around a mystery, so it\u2019s hard to stretch them out, and without story, you\u2019re just working as a errand-boy).<\/p>\n

Although EA is just milking the franchise at this point, it hasn\u2019t lost that much quality, so I guess that\u2019s a win\u2026 This one is definitely better than the second one, and only worse than the first one because the terror isn\u2019t there anymore. Isaac is now too much of a necromorph killing machine to actually feel scared, I\u2019d say. 7\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n

On the development news, give a jump onto the Spellcaster Studios<\/a> blog\u2026 not much going on, but we\u2019re still working!<\/p>\n

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Since I was very disappointed with Dead Space 2, this one really surprised me, since it was way better than the one before (and maybe even on-par to the first one). In this one, the story actually evolves and more is found out about the Markers\u2026 The characters are a bit grating and one-dimensional; Isaac […]<\/p>\n

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