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This game was released on September 25 2009. The predecessors release date was the October 14th 2008. If you liked House of the Dead: Overkill, you'll love this game.
The first Dead Space game came out on the PS3, Xbox 360 and Pc. It carries on from where its first version finished. Dead Space: Extraction is set 3 weeks before the events of Dead Space (last year's survival - horror), which saw the USG Ishimura mining ship infested with zombie like aliens. The engineer for the Ishimura, Isaac Clarke, attempts to survive after a routine repair mission gone wrong.
It all begins with a mysterious relic being found. This is referred to as the Marker. Most of the miners on the facility start to kill one another for no apparent reason and the zombie like aliens start appearing. Four very unlikely allies get together and fight their way free from the planet.
The Necromorphs, originally humans, like to consume and convert human flesh and are not like traditional zombies, instead of shooting their heads and they just die, you have to dismember their bodies.
Most of the weapons from its predecessor have been used in this game as well as a few new ones. Such as: the rivet gun and the arc welder.
After each level your progress throughout that level is "tallied up" and you are rewarded with health upgrades and unlock able challenge levels. Also, the most different bonus you can get is a series of voice acted comics. These tell an alternate storyline like your own and tell about the events that are to "unfold."
In the co-op play, the 2nd player may "drop in" at any time. Each player has their own ammo. This means that basically you both have to repeatedly press the kinesis button to compete for over drops. Also, with both remotes pointing at the screen, it means that both the on screen cursors tend to overlap.
I think that the voice acting brings the game more alive as they suit the characters very well.
The graphics are detailed from the light to the shadows.
The only downside for me is that it is slightly repetitive.
Overall 9/10
The first Dead Space game came out on the PS3, Xbox 360 and Pc. It carries on from where its first version finished. Dead Space: Extraction is set 3 weeks before the events of Dead Space (last year's survival - horror), which saw the USG Ishimura mining ship infested with zombie like aliens. The engineer for the Ishimura, Isaac Clarke, attempts to survive after a routine repair mission gone wrong.
It all begins with a mysterious relic being found. This is referred to as the Marker. Most of the miners on the facility start to kill one another for no apparent reason and the zombie like aliens start appearing. Four very unlikely allies get together and fight their way free from the planet.
The Necromorphs, originally humans, like to consume and convert human flesh and are not like traditional zombies, instead of shooting their heads and they just die, you have to dismember their bodies.
Most of the weapons from its predecessor have been used in this game as well as a few new ones. Such as: the rivet gun and the arc welder.
After each level your progress throughout that level is "tallied up" and you are rewarded with health upgrades and unlock able challenge levels. Also, the most different bonus you can get is a series of voice acted comics. These tell an alternate storyline like your own and tell about the events that are to "unfold."
In the co-op play, the 2nd player may "drop in" at any time. Each player has their own ammo. This means that basically you both have to repeatedly press the kinesis button to compete for over drops. Also, with both remotes pointing at the screen, it means that both the on screen cursors tend to overlap.
I think that the voice acting brings the game more alive as they suit the characters very well.
The graphics are detailed from the light to the shadows.
The only downside for me is that it is slightly repetitive.
Overall 9/10
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This game was released on September 25 2009. The predecessors release date was the October 14th 2008. If you liked House of the Dead: Overkill, you'll love this game.
The first Dead Space game came out on the PS3, Xbox 360 and Pc. It carries on from where its first version finished. Dead Space: Extraction is set 3 weeks before the events of Dead Space (last year's survival - horror), which saw the USG Ishimura mining ship infested with zombie like aliens. The engineer for the Ishimura, Isaac Clarke, attempts to survive after a routine repair mission gone wrong.
It all begins with a mysterious relic being found. This is referred to as the Marker. Most of the miners on the facility start to kill one another for no apparent reason and the zombie like aliens start appearing. Four very unlikely allies get together and fight their way free from the planet.
The Necromorphs, originally humans, like to consume and convert human flesh and are not like traditional zombies, instead of shooting their heads and they just die, you have to dismember their bodies.
Most of the weapons from its predecessor have been used in this game as well as a few new ones. Such as: the rivet gun and the arc welder.
After each level your progress throughout that level is "tallied up" and you are rewarded with health upgrades and unlock able challenge levels. Also, the most different bonus you can get is a series of voice acted comics. These tell an alternate storyline like your own and tell about the events that are to "unfold."
In the co-op play, the 2nd player may "drop in" at any time. Each player has their own ammo. This means that basically you both have to repeatedly press the kinesis button to compete for over drops. Also, with both remotes pointing at the screen, it means that both the on screen cursors tend to overlap.
I think that the voice acting brings the game more alive as they suit the characters very well.
The graphics are detailed from the light to the shadows.
The only downside for me is that it is slightly repetitive.
Overall 9/10
The first Dead Space game came out on the PS3, Xbox 360 and Pc. It carries on from where its first version finished. Dead Space: Extraction is set 3 weeks before the events of Dead Space (last year's survival - horror), which saw the USG Ishimura mining ship infested with zombie like aliens. The engineer for the Ishimura, Isaac Clarke, attempts to survive after a routine repair mission gone wrong.
It all begins with a mysterious relic being found. This is referred to as the Marker. Most of the miners on the facility start to kill one another for no apparent reason and the zombie like aliens start appearing. Four very unlikely allies get together and fight their way free from the planet.
The Necromorphs, originally humans, like to consume and convert human flesh and are not like traditional zombies, instead of shooting their heads and they just die, you have to dismember their bodies.
Most of the weapons from its predecessor have been used in this game as well as a few new ones. Such as: the rivet gun and the arc welder.
After each level your progress throughout that level is "tallied up" and you are rewarded with health upgrades and unlock able challenge levels. Also, the most different bonus you can get is a series of voice acted comics. These tell an alternate storyline like your own and tell about the events that are to "unfold."
In the co-op play, the 2nd player may "drop in" at any time. Each player has their own ammo. This means that basically you both have to repeatedly press the kinesis button to compete for over drops. Also, with both remotes pointing at the screen, it means that both the on screen cursors tend to overlap.
I think that the voice acting brings the game more alive as they suit the characters very well.
The graphics are detailed from the light to the shadows.
The only downside for me is that it is slightly repetitive.
Overall 9/10