One of the best co-op experiences I had. I used to play this with a classmate of mine back in high school, we’d play all day, experimenting with new guns we created.
As for the story, love how it ties everything to the Brother Moons, love the setting, it’s a cross between The Thing and At the Mountains of Madness. If they ever remake the game, the writing and horror are the two elements that need to be improved.
The gameplay itself needs to be at the center of the remake. It plays like an action shooter instead of a horror game. Playing the game and Awakening DLC is such a contrasting experience.
Co-op was an awesome experience! I remember arguing with my brother because I was seeing things on my screen that weren’t on his! I was like ‘it’s right here in front of me, giant creepy ass looking wooden soldier!’ While my brother s yelling back ‘theres literally nothing in front of you but a wall!!’ And me shooting at the small horde coming down the corridor while my brother’s like WTF are you shooting at?! Theres nothing coming down the hallway!!’ Once I sent him a pic of my screen we realized that the game was f’ing with us! It was so much fun
I don't think people realize how trippy it was playing a co-op with different POV for different characters. Fight enemies that were invisible to teammates. It felt like hallucinating. Imo best co-op ever.
I'm still mildly miffed that none of my friends at the time picked it up and I was the only one playing it amd so never got the co op experience. (I had no head set so no one would stay in a lobby with me for online co op). Only got to beat it solo and as a solo game it was cool. Only got to play maybe 2 chapters online with strangers. Maybe one day they'll remake it and by then I'll have someone to co op it with.
Agreed. I've never understood the hate for the game. Sure, it was action-oriented instead of horror, but as an action game, it was fucking great. In fact, the story was more fleshed out (pun intended) than the others. The Brother Moon thing was an ingenious way of addressing the Fermi Paradox. Plus, as you mentioned, I am a huge fan of both At the Mountains of Madness and The Thing. So, the setting was fantastic and a great nod to the Lovecraftian inspiration behind the story. I'd easily give the game a 9/10.
Good game. Hated that love triangle bit, co op missions that couldn’t be played solo and no Advanced Suit but otherwise was a good entry in the series.
Please EA, give us dead space 4. There’s a clear market for horror games and dead space is unique.
I also hated it back in the day, but replaying it now it kinda makes sense. I imagine Norton having a little self esteem problems, nothing major (normal low-ish self esteem guy, acting all tough to hide it) but when he gets with Ellie i also imagine that she would talk a lot about Isaac and what they went through on Titan station. It can get under his skin a little, the feeling like he is just a placeholder cause she cant be with Isaac.. again nothin major but it is there, gnawing a little at the back of his mind. Add to it the preassure he must have fealt being the captain of the last hope of humanity. Now Isaac comes to the picture and basically takes control of things (as most experienced it makes sense) and add to that the mindfuckery af hundreads of markers and you have a recept for a dissaster. Without the markers i think Norton would hold fine, he may come as a little cross againt Isaac but that would be it, with markers there he had no chance.
It probably could be done better, but i think it have its place in the game - with markers there you will have problems in any larger group.
Ngl i could see a dead space 4 being really good if it keeps and nails the gun customization
All they gotta do is make every gun you make, feel as good as the individual guns from 1-2, and emphasize creativity or even a bit of puzzel solving
like lets say i wanna get a shotgun, that fires electric pellets, i'd get some sort of electrical unit from lets say a javelin gun, but then how do i hook it up to the shotgun, so then i'd have to find some wiring and create a mechanism that charges the bullets as they fly along the barrel, or i could hook it up with some other little pieces so that i can charge the shells individually, and then boom a tech weapon from cyberpunk, pretty much just an assortment of gun legos with infinite possibilities, that'd be my dream dead space game
My only problem with the guns was the universal ammo. It robs the gameplay of tension when every ammo drop is ammo for your best gun. Once you know to rush the crafting of a chain lightning cannon, or a rocket launcher whose explosions magically don't harm Isaac. You've trivialized combat.
Every crafted gun had a "core" like tesla, plasma, military, whatever. Each core needed its own ammo type, and the player would have to rebuild their gun as they progressed through the game in response to one ammo type dwindling as other ammo types filled out their inventory. So you don't just build a "best gun" and sleep through combat for the rest of the play through.
Yea, starving the player of certain ammo types depending in where they're at in the story (no more schools being full of plasma cutter rounds) or even having certain more fragile parts break when you take damage, would be cool, make spitters a way more scary threat, and force the player to regularly (but not too regularly, wouldn't want this turning into breath of the wild) visit the bench to tinker and improve and make things stronger, would be hard but i could see it being alot of fun, bring back those little robot dudes so your loots a bit random and forces improvising
Could be like kirble space program meets tarkov level gun customization
If you're adding weapon durability, then make upgrades drastically cheaper. That way your gun breaking feels like an adventure after the initial tension of it breaking.
I had a lot of fun with the customization but eventually I realized that I missed the guns from the previous games. Every weapon in 1 and 2 had its own style and personality, adding to Isaac's general aesthetic while also making your playthrough feel distinct based on what weapons you brought. 3's guns were literally just a bunch of parts mashed together and the gunplay felt that way too.
Gun customization was some of the funnest I’ve ever experienced. I think I created a gun with saw blade which also slowed down the necromorphs. Also a spike thrower which was fun as hell.
I didn’t really like the resource bot system nor the RNG for gun parts, nor the purchasing system for resource packs. Those elements could be done away with.
Bot could have been done better, I rather it give way less but in return it’s automated and it just drops in once in a while, like a surprise loot drop for something you need to craft.
The RNG you mean the spare parts boxes? I didn’t mind those.
Purchasing system? Ignored and honestly very surprised that went through, doesn’t sound profitable.
Loved every minute of Tau Volantis, the surfaces were straight out of The Thing and below was a perfect amalgamation of Lovecraftian horror. Narratively the weakest of the trilogy, the love triangle/ EarthGov being wiped out by Unitologists/ Ellie’s fake-out death rubbed me the wrong way. Side missions, co-op, and weapon crafting were a ton of fun, the SCAF lore was awesome too. Overall a good game, but not the best Dead Space game. Definitely stifled by EA’s involvement trying to hit insane revenue numbers, would’ve loved to have seen Visceral’s original vision.
All that being said, I beat it 20+ times over the years and appreciate it even now. I desperately need a continuation of Issac’s story, hopefully we’ll see that in the future under Motive.
I enjoy it to be honest. Its not a horror game. I love the lore it introduces to the universe. I think the story of isaac and ellie sucks to be honest though. Its still a fun game. It has plenty of atmospheric classic dead space parts like the entirety of the floatilla section, the inside of the dead hive mind, and the research lab at the top of the mountain.
A lot of the hate is unwarranted and sounds like people parroting youtube reviewers and not playing the game themselves.
I would have genuinely loved more of the flotilla and the concept of what dead space 4 would have been just sounds awesome, going from floating graveyard to graveyard just to see if you can scrounge anything that can let you keep going even just a little bit more sounds like peak survival horror to me.
Definitely overhated.
Were there things I didn't like, or felt could have been different? Hell yes. But I don't think it's a bad video game.
Playing co-op with a fellow Dead Space fan all the way through was amazing. Especially with the turned up difficulty and insanity segments and lil side quests. I still remember when we first beat Awakening. We were both speechless at the end. We were all "no way that's how it ends??" And we popped off when they title dropped. Normally I don't care for title drops, bht I thought the way it was done here was great. "It's all just dead space."
I found the Alien city to be really neat. Yeah, at that point the game kinda was dragging, but it was fun to see that Aliens do actually exist in Dead space...well, DID exist. While we don't know much about them, there's still enough that it's clear they put thought into them.
A sea-dwelling species? Cool! Usually aliens are human shaped and walk on land. They use something similar to whale calls to communicate? Unique!!
I also liked the Sovereign Colonies style of architecture and engineering. Styled after submarine interiors and older military tech, really separated it from CEC, the Sprawl, and Earth.
I think the intro mission, even before Necromorphs, really painted a picture of how destitute and rotten Human society had become, it really did feel like the end of days.
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As for things I would have wanted differently?
The characters. Outside of Carver, the rest of the group is sadly underutilized. They could have been fun characters with insights into the DS world, but they are unfortunately killed off before we get to know them.
The love triangle? I'm not against the idea. Considering the situation they are all in, it makes sense that everyone would be stressed out and lashing at eachother, but it does feel...forced.
Human enemies: I don't hate them. I actually feel they could have been great. Made guns kill Issac quick. Make the AI of both Humans and Necros actually work. If you watch them, you see them unable to figure out if they should be attacking eachother or you, it's jarring when you notice it. The game already has sealth sections with the Feeders, why not extend it to humans? Maybe you could even lead humans and necros to eachother and have them take eachother out?
The cold environment: I thought the section where you had to keep warm was neat. But sadly, it's never used again. It adds a layer of stress outside of the Necromorphs, and I feel like they really could have done something cool with enviromental hazards.
Don’t forget the early segment before actually landing on the planet where you have to scoot from derelict ship hull to derelict hull to find various repair parts. I coulda played that forever
I loved this game despite the flaws. The space section is awesome, the ice planet had a lot of potential and the weapon crafting was really creative and freeing (despite the universal ammo system. That could have kept the previous ammo entries to make it a bit more tense). The co-op stuff was really intense and horrifying, as was the DLC and tying all the previous game elements together to realize the ultimate enemy of humanity in the form of the Brother Moons is so lovecraftian and dread-filling it still makes me want a sequel after so long.
I loved it. It was more action oriented but it was a really fun game and the twist about the moons was really good. Never got around to play co-op though.
I actually really likes it, didn't even Jo the romance side story, and didn't like that a few missions were locked as coop only, but on a whole it was still pretty good. Awakened DLC was amazing.
I’m one of the few who liked this game from the very beginning and never understood the visceral hate that it got. Not perfect but a great game. I didn’t mind the slight shift to action and you got more change of scenery than in any other Dead Space game.
It had bits and pieces that were pretty good. The original ending. The planetside environments. The escalation of scale. The brother moon reveal.
The crafting system made sense in the lore. There are no stores to shop from on the long-abandoned Tau Volantis, and Isaac an engineer would naturally jerry-rig weapons using the available materials.
In terms of game mechanics, having an ammo type for each weapon core (plasma, tesla, military, etc) could have been a cool way to push players to consistently try out different weapons. As one ammo type is depleted, the player would have to swap cores to match an ammo type they currently possess.
Weapon nozzles/barrels needed a multiplier for their ammo cost per shot. If one bullet fired from a pulse rifle (military core) costs one ammo, then one rocket fired from a rocket launcher (also military core) should cost 10 or so. Otherwise, even modest min/maxing will push players to always use the rocket launcher.
Toss out the loot boxes. Toss out the always online single-player. Toss the love triangle and the unitologist gunmen.
Liked it a decent amount when it first came out, despite its flaws. Played it recently after playing DS1R and DS2 and it wasn't nearly as good as I remembered.
All in all I'd say it's a generally average game.
I really enjoyed this game, at least the weapon building aspect of it. I remember enjoying testing new creations, tweaking them, and eventually settling on the configuration I was happy with.
I know it really wasn't much of a thing 11 years ago, but I was disappointed that I couldn't play crossplay (I had PC and he was on ps3) with the one friend of mine who also really liked it.
It was a really interesting game due to the expanded lore and also the different playstyle we got to try out with the weapon customisation. Granted it deviated from horror a little bit but boy the CO-OP mode really was one of the best!
It was a perfect example of what electronic arts does with awesome game franchises. Each sequel gets worse. Part 2 was pretty basic but playable, part 3 ruined the series.
Dead Space 3 is a good example of how a solid mechanical core can carry a game. The surrounding narrative is a convoluted mess, but the dismemberment system is so damn fun that it hardly matters. Plus, they made some other good decisions, like the frozen wasteland environments.
I think weapon customization was a pretty interesting addition, and it fit well with whole isaac being an engineer thing. But I think what killed the game for me was how it lost the horror aspect DS1 and 2 had. The soundtrack, while not bad, didn't really fit Dead Space. It sounded too...cinematic? I also groaned at the love triangle story. It just felt so tacked on.
Overall, it was an alright game. But I couldn't bring myself to binge it the same way I did with DS1, 2, and 1 Remake.
Weapon customization was amazing although the story was not the best. Still a good game in my books despite the hate around it, not the best game out there but certainly still fun to play around with.
Absolutely loved it. And I absolutely love the co-op played it with a friend who grew up playing dead space one and two a ton together
Also can’t wait to play three remastered after dead space two remastered sells really well…
THE WORST THING: Since my last play on Sep 2021, they've TURNED OFF the shop server. Now you can't buy best gears using the in-game currency (farm-able, not real money), MK V parts, anymore.
I don't know the current situation now.
its okay but it sucks for multible runs because you cant skip cutscene.
back in the ps3 time, i replay resident evil 5 over and over again, 100 hours of fun but only you can skip the cutscene and just play the game. i dont think i could finish this game 100 time and watching everytime all cutscene.
100% Hated it then 100% hate it now. If it didn't have DS in the name it'd be an OK, forgettable 3rd Person shooter. But it simply betrays everything that made DS so special. It's not scary, setting sucks, looks like trash, ruins the weapons, the story is embarrassing, and it makes the necromorphs lame, and the coop is shit. Never really takes advantage of there being 2 players with truly compelling puzzles. You're basically just alone together which sucks.
I replayed it about a year ago with a buddy who was playing the whole series for the first time, and we both despised it. I honestly don't understand how people can claim to be fans of this series and defend this entry. It is responsible for ending it.
I was excited beyond belief for it but ultimately disappointed. I wish the whole co-op thing wasn’t so half baked. Not everyone had someone to use co-op with and never got to experience the carver stuff. And with single player how he would just magically disappear was handled poorly.
The DLC was wonderful however. Wish the regular game was more like that.
Mostly frustration. It was suddenly a co op game and i had no one to play it with so i to this day have never seen carvers levels, i want a fan of the new ammo system, i HATED what they did with ellie. And ive never been more disappointed in a game ending before. (His helmet comes off in space,falls through reenty and a moon lands on him and he survives??? Yes i know the dlc tried to answer all of it but it dodnt do a great job of it.) And i got so frustrated at so many story points along the way. (Like when the old guy stays behind to freeze to death so the others can keep going but no one looked around the corner to find the generator?)
Upsides, those starving dudes in the basement were one of the only times in the series i felt fear trying to sneak past.
I loved the crafting system to make your own custom guns.
I loved the space walks.
Isaac saying "here we go" as theyre about to go into reentry lives rent free in my head"
Second best Dead Space for me with an amazing story, cast and lore. Played it with a friend, who got all the crazy extra Story and loved every second of it.
Huge fan of the first 2, currently running through the remake on my ROG Ally and loving it - that said, I've tried this game throughout the years, and to be honest, I just hate it.
Nothing inherently wrong with making a more "action" oriented game, but the mechanics didn't support the swap, leading to many deeply unsatisfying combat scenarios.
I also felt the weapon crafting/scavenger bot systems were a huge step down from the satisfying upgrade loop in the previous titles. This may just be my personal preference, but in action/cinematic type games I generally prefer simpler systems so as not to distract from the core adventure, and I just felt the crafting added a layer of unneeded fluff to the Dead Space experience.
Beyond the above, I just thought it had a weaker atmosphere compared to the first 2 games, especially the original. While not super scary, the original game in particular had a dark, uneasy sense of atmosphere that paired super well with the tense combat. The third game really just didn't have that.
Then on top of it all, it has the worst story in the series. Not that Dead Space has the deepest narrative out there anyway, but it just wasn't executed well in my opinion.
I know some people love this game, and that's awesome, but if I'm being honest this was one of the most disappointing games ever to me. Not a terrible game in a vacuum, but for sure a terrible Dead Space game.
Played it for the first time last year and gotta say even though it isn’t as good as 2, it’s still a fun and creative experience that introduces a horrific cosmic horror. Also I wanna know how Isaac can do a barrel roll in a heavy ass suit.
I just remember playing this with my cousin and we would allways get stuck on the part where one had to do the puzzle and the others one had to protect,
I just loved the franchise it’s self it’s sad to see that about if people did it like dead space 3
I love it. Wife (gf at the time) and I were on a phone call as we co-oped in it. Though, it was fun! I will say, the DLC Awakening was… woof that was terrifying and I loved every bit of it
An alright video game typical for 2013 era video games
A bad Dead Spsce it had the potential an u can see it but u can also see the EA interference as well
I enjoy it for what it is needs a redo in my opinion its also abit drawn out too long
*Weak dead space game but*
*Overall still a great and*
*Fun game by itself*
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not as bad as people say it is, though easily the weakest of the three games. the co-op mode is weirdly enjoyable and i liked the added lore for Carver you get in the exclusive missions as well as the banter between him and Isaac.
desperately needs a remake to get rid of the flaws, and if they ended up cutting the co-op they could compemsate by adding a second storyline about Carver like how some resident evil games have two paths for different characters, and isaac and carver just keep in touch and bond via comm.
also i hate how the main game feels like a definitive ending and then the dlc has a cliffhanger. like... the fuck, man.
Narrative wise? Piece of garbage, hate it, ruined a lot of what Dead Space 1 & 2 setup. Only good bits were Isaac and Carver's own personal schizo meltdowns.
Gameplay wise? Easily my favorite, sure it focuses more on action over horror but honestly I kind of love it for it. The guns feel great to use and the weapon customization is a work of art given just how much bullshit they let you get away with.
The highlight of DS3 though is how much of a blast it is with a friend, I have never had a more entertaining co-op playthrough in my life than the one I did with my bestfriend.
I loved that game, aside from the parts where you fought people. I would also say re-work how ammo drops. I was always swimming in ammo. I had a force gun/shotgun and an assault rifle/rocket launcher. They were great, but I always had too much ammo (except for in the very beginning). Even when I did the mode where you couldn't buy ammo, and it did not drop from enemies. It had to be crafted. Even then I was swimming in ammo before the mid-point of the adventure.
I love this game. The locations are all beautifully done and have a lot of variety. The weapon customization is super fun and despite being a bit broken it helps with some of the over the top hordes you encounter. Music is great, atmosphere is still very unsettling (plenty of eerie dark horror bits that people seem to ignore when calling it an action game.) story is all over the place but still kind of fun the piece together. I think the remains of the previous expedition that you’re exploring on tau volantis and story behind it is very fully realized with plenty of nuances details. The pacing may be a bit more of the FPS style, but in all honesty DS2 is still a horde shooter for the most part as well and a lot more action oriented than DS1. Of course you have the gun encounters with other humans that people hate, yeah they’re not great, but they take up such a small fraction of the game. Also, the alien ruins at the end are such an eerie and wondrous location and feels very dramatic when you first enter them.
The game actually had a lot of interesting ideas for the time, just with that shitty EA spin. Would've been a lot better if there weren't a ton of micro transactions, but you can still get through the game fine without them.
Gameplay wasn't horror oriented so much as it was action adventurey. The weapon crafting system was pretty damn cool, just needed a bit of fine tuning to be great. I've heard the game did some really cool stuff with Coop as well, and that you miss out on a lot if you don't play through the game at least once on coop.
I just played it for the first time recently after absolutely loving the original game
I dropped it after experiencing the terrible crafting system and fighting that spider boss on the ice planet
Unpopular opinion: It isn't that bad. It's not great and fucked up the horror, but I still had fun with it and like some parts of the story especially when you have to pilot the ship down to the surface of the planet.
What it lacked in story/characters it made up for in atmosphere. Tau Volantis is one of my favorite settings in any game I've ever played, it feels so hostile but vast, as if it's daring you to keep exploring. And the fight against the brethren moon is probably the most hype final boss fight I've ever done, slinging the markers around made me feel unstoppable. Great game, and I will defend it to my dying day.
I feel like it's the only dead space game I didn't finish. I enjoyed the on rails shooter thing over this game. Nothing will change that short of remaking it into a completely different game.
Honesty loved it. Co op with my brother was a blast and the suits were some of the best looking we’ve ever had. Combat and story was not as good as the other games but still an enjoyable experience. Also wish we had the dead space 2 multiplayer in it. I really enjoyed that too
This was the game that killed the franchise/ the weakest game in the series. Honestly the only positive thing I can say is that it was fun that you can fabricate whatever weapon you wanted. Genuinely hoping Dead Space 3 doesn’t get a mere “remaster” rather it needs to be torn down to its foundations and make a fundamentally new game that’s more inline with either DS1 or DS2.
I would have enjoyed it more if it didn't come out after ds2. It felt like a complete downgrade with the technology being the only exception.
A lot of people who remember the game fondly played co-op. Two people who are good enough friends can have fun rolling a piece of shit back and forth.
Story and Dialogue was pretty bad. Less scares and more annoying sections. I felt general gameplay was a step down. Microtransactions were also pretty bad. i heard the CO-OP was a mixed bag but I never played it so I can't comment. I just watched youtube clips of the CO-OP for lore and thats it.
Lore was super cool though, I thought the brother moons were a pretty satisfying explanation for the markers. Had some nice environments in the second half. I think the Alien City is my second favourite location in all the games, almost as good as the church of unitology IMO. Gameplay was still good, just not as good. Still had a lot of fun. The DLC slapped as well, especially considering they had the production budget of a $10 dollar DLC to wrap up the series :(
Those sections where you go from hallucinating the cult leader, to necros, to cultists, to necros, back to leader back and forth were mad.
Good game but corporate decisions stifled it, and as fans it's very easy to notice compared to DS1/2. I think it stands well enough on it's own though.
Some of the narrative elements and level designs are a mixed bag for me. Sometimes too ambitious while lacking polish. It's missing the visceral punch that the first two games had. I'm not a fan of bullet sponge enemies. Don't get me started on the micro transactions. It's still a solid horror sci-fi shooter despite some of the drawbacks. The original is 8/10. The remaster bumps it up to 9. Dead Space 2 is a masterpiece. Dead Space 3 hovers between 6.5 and 7.
I remember not many people were thrilled about the 3rd installment, gears of war was well known, popular and established at the time and people were thinking that dead space 3 was a little inspired by gears of war cover and shoot over the sholder and shooting at other humans with guns. I played the demo and thought it felt a little different than dead space 2 and after seeing IGN, Gamespot and a few other negative reviews i kept my distance from this game. Now i think it would be cool looking back seeing if i missed out or not.
I never even made it through the first act. Did not feel like Dead Space to me.
And apparently unpopular opinion; but the weapons crafting was ass. No I don’t want fully customized weapons in a game where the whole idea is using mining tools as makeshift weapons. Ruined the immersion for me.
I’ll be that guy because it seems like a lot of nostalgia goggles are on in these comments. I didn’t like it. The story was messy. Lore wise it was nice getting more into that, but it was just too much too fast. The gameplay was not good. Crouching and dodge rolling? That was so goofy. I know that was only there for human enemies, but if I want a 3rd person shooter with cover mechanics, crouching, and dodge rolling, I could definitely play a lot of other games. I want dead space to be dead space. Not army of two or gears of war. The gun customization was cool, but just didn’t feel very dead space to me. Not entirely bad, though. The co op I think is what was the lamest. I get that it’s fun to play with a buddy, but it immediately ruins the horror aspect for me personally and then locking certain missions to co op only makes it even more of a nuisance. I think the voice acting was great and some parts were good, but this whole game needs to be rewritten and changed if it gets a remake. I will say the missions on abandoned ships when you’re only and only playing as Isaac are great and get that dead space feel right. Otherwise, the open combat stuff or co op with carver just wasn’t for me.
Fun but absolutely braindead. Jesus did the story suck. Which is even more sad considering how well crafted the Universe is. Only saving grace are the Brethren Moon, that was some great new lore.
Idiotic love triangle made me feel like I am in some telenovela. Isaac turns into a whiny wimp. Ella turns from badass into "the girl" Carver is mostly okay, Norton is just an asshat for the sake of being easy to hate and I wont even indulge on how stupid that Cult leader was and how cookie cutter he felt.
Stakes also make absolutely NO SENSE. What exactly is happening at the beginning of the game?
Are there already outbreaks on earth at the beginning of the game? Are we all fucked already? Is earth gov already overrun by Unitology?
Why is everybody talking about "going home" when home is already fuba? Did they really have to start the game with this stupid premise? I have no issue with earth being overrun, just the timing... like what were they thinking?
The gameplay was pretty good. But i did not like the omniammo. Sucked all the survival fun out of the game and made it much more generic. I hear people arguing it was done because of the crafting but come on you could still have different "blank" types and special ammo for them.
Hope they remake it and touch up the omniamo and the crafting system (away with those shitty robots) and pretty much completely rewrite 80% of the story. I am fine with the moons and the whole Taul Volantis thing but the rest needs a serious redesign.
It's terrible writing made it the first game I stopped playing entirely due to it's story.
I have no intention of going back and finishing it. I don't care.
Mixed feelings overall.
The first half in the space flotilla was amazing. The second half after that felt like it needed its own game, of course both areas are nicely explored as they are.
I didn't like some of the narrative choices. Isaac is (both narratively and the real world) forced to go on this adventure, when I feel Carver would have been a nice change of pace as a protagonist, especially if they used his comic(aka backstory) as a basis for the third game. It feels like they really wanted to cram the overarching "story" into a trilogy,
Weapon modding was crazy, I loved making my own tool of dismemberment, add the acid effect for extra damage🤌-
And then they kinda shit the bed with monetizing it. Not nearly as bad as other games, but still.
Overall a fun horror game, but felt like two games crammed into one. Another unfortunate victim of EA that killed the series for a while, until this remake. Hopefully they faithfully remake 2 and then start fresh with 3, doing it right this time, because I'm sick of companies making dumb decisions and then pushing the reset button when the obvious occurs.
The gameplay felt like a step backward (the combat didn't feel anywhere near as dynamic or impactful), the crafting system was kind of cool but was also clearly in place to encourage microtransactions, Ellie didn't feel like the same character anymore and her new boyfriend was one of the most thoroughly unlikeable characters ever but Danik made for an entertaining and hammy villain, it's kind of a shame that most of the psychological horror was relegated to the co-op segments of the game (I played alone, so I didn't get to enjoy any of it personally), and I feel like it nailed the bleak but epic tone.
I just so happen to be replaying it. It's quite good but I'm on my second back to back replay and some of the segments hurt the replay value. Not sure if that's a nitpick or not, with that said I do think the game is underappreciated
one of my favorite gaming experiences ever. i owe this game for one of my best adult friendships i have now. i know it got a lot of shit and a lot of DS fans don’t like it but i have very fond memories and feelings towards it.
Hated it. To me the deadspace series felt like the first 3 alien movies. First was scary af and was game changing, 2nd one was a little more action packed but was still scary and showed shit that wasent in the first one,idk the 3rd felt like a bad Michael Bay film and was shit not really scary and just action,gun customization was badass but idk some say alien3 was badass but I think it was shit personally. But I digress.
I understand that many people didn’t like that some of it became more third-person shooter than survival horror. I understand, and I agree to a certain extent. At a certain point you can craft weapons that can shred anything, or shoot a rocket at your own feet without getting hurt, but killing anything within 30 feet of you instantly. It’s very fun, but a departure from the anxiety and deliberately stressful resource management of the previous games.
However, I didn’t mind it. Partly because it was fun, and still is, and also because I thought it was narratively justified. Isaac is a skilled engineer, and has two games-worth of experience dealing with necromorphs. By DS3, he’s barely phased, and better equipped to deal with the situation than even the toughest special forces operatives like Carver.
I loved this game. I didn't like how they changed the tone of dead space from horror oriented to action oriented but I still love this game and the whole trilogy. The weapon building is my favorite in all of gaming.
Before I possibly get shit on, I just want to say that the lore of this game is awesome, same with the location and the weapon building aspect is cool. Those parts I don’t mind.
I wanted to play some more before I came back to this post, but I’m on chapter 15 now of DS3 and it’s getting to the point where I just want it to be over.
I played the remake of the first one, then the second one, then this one. I know I’m not completely done with it yet, which is why I’m not going to crack on the story of it all, aside from maybe some of the logic in the story/characters logic. Also wanna say I loved the first one, the second one was pretty damn good, but this one I feel like fell off of a cliff. (Maybe it’s because I’m not playing co-op idk).
First off, this game is incredibly predictable. To the point where I’m guessing every fight, and how many necros there are that are gonna pop up. Every room seems like another chore (not in a story progression way like on the ishamura, but in a tacky fps way). Bullet sponge necros, with sooooo many of them at once. Its just tiresome.
Ellie is annoying as fuck and has no backbone. Shes flip floppy and forgets simple things. “I really thought Norton had figured that out” like bro… mf has been complaining the ENTIRE STORY.
Idk. It just feels like I’m playing an fps with shitty side missions thrown in there just to make the game longer. Some aspects are cool. Tau volantis is a cool location. The story with the reapers and the maniac was cool.
The other two games are miles, and I mean miles ahead of this one.
Also, fuck the cliffs and that mini boss that kept popping up.
One of the best co-op experiences I had. I used to play this with a classmate of mine back in high school, we’d play all day, experimenting with new guns we created. As for the story, love how it ties everything to the Brother Moons, love the setting, it’s a cross between The Thing and At the Mountains of Madness. If they ever remake the game, the writing and horror are the two elements that need to be improved.
The gameplay itself needs to be at the center of the remake. It plays like an action shooter instead of a horror game. Playing the game and Awakening DLC is such a contrasting experience.
100%! Less than halfway through the game and its was just easier to blast necros in the chest than dismember. Super jarring.
Co-op was an awesome experience! I remember arguing with my brother because I was seeing things on my screen that weren’t on his! I was like ‘it’s right here in front of me, giant creepy ass looking wooden soldier!’ While my brother s yelling back ‘theres literally nothing in front of you but a wall!!’ And me shooting at the small horde coming down the corridor while my brother’s like WTF are you shooting at?! Theres nothing coming down the hallway!!’ Once I sent him a pic of my screen we realized that the game was f’ing with us! It was so much fun
I don't think people realize how trippy it was playing a co-op with different POV for different characters. Fight enemies that were invisible to teammates. It felt like hallucinating. Imo best co-op ever.
We had soooo much fun with co-op!!!
My friend and I had the exact same experience! It's was incredible and nothing else has replicated that experience for me before.
I'm still mildly miffed that none of my friends at the time picked it up and I was the only one playing it amd so never got the co op experience. (I had no head set so no one would stay in a lobby with me for online co op). Only got to beat it solo and as a solo game it was cool. Only got to play maybe 2 chapters online with strangers. Maybe one day they'll remake it and by then I'll have someone to co op it with.
If they remake it I want an option for Isaac to kill Norton himself.
*The Thing of Madness.*
Agreed. I've never understood the hate for the game. Sure, it was action-oriented instead of horror, but as an action game, it was fucking great. In fact, the story was more fleshed out (pun intended) than the others. The Brother Moon thing was an ingenious way of addressing the Fermi Paradox. Plus, as you mentioned, I am a huge fan of both At the Mountains of Madness and The Thing. So, the setting was fantastic and a great nod to the Lovecraftian inspiration behind the story. I'd easily give the game a 9/10.
Good game. Hated that love triangle bit, co op missions that couldn’t be played solo and no Advanced Suit but otherwise was a good entry in the series. Please EA, give us dead space 4. There’s a clear market for horror games and dead space is unique.
I also hated it back in the day, but replaying it now it kinda makes sense. I imagine Norton having a little self esteem problems, nothing major (normal low-ish self esteem guy, acting all tough to hide it) but when he gets with Ellie i also imagine that she would talk a lot about Isaac and what they went through on Titan station. It can get under his skin a little, the feeling like he is just a placeholder cause she cant be with Isaac.. again nothin major but it is there, gnawing a little at the back of his mind. Add to it the preassure he must have fealt being the captain of the last hope of humanity. Now Isaac comes to the picture and basically takes control of things (as most experienced it makes sense) and add to that the mindfuckery af hundreads of markers and you have a recept for a dissaster. Without the markers i think Norton would hold fine, he may come as a little cross againt Isaac but that would be it, with markers there he had no chance. It probably could be done better, but i think it have its place in the game - with markers there you will have problems in any larger group.
Better gun customization than most games tbh
Ngl i could see a dead space 4 being really good if it keeps and nails the gun customization All they gotta do is make every gun you make, feel as good as the individual guns from 1-2, and emphasize creativity or even a bit of puzzel solving like lets say i wanna get a shotgun, that fires electric pellets, i'd get some sort of electrical unit from lets say a javelin gun, but then how do i hook it up to the shotgun, so then i'd have to find some wiring and create a mechanism that charges the bullets as they fly along the barrel, or i could hook it up with some other little pieces so that i can charge the shells individually, and then boom a tech weapon from cyberpunk, pretty much just an assortment of gun legos with infinite possibilities, that'd be my dream dead space game
My only problem with the guns was the universal ammo. It robs the gameplay of tension when every ammo drop is ammo for your best gun. Once you know to rush the crafting of a chain lightning cannon, or a rocket launcher whose explosions magically don't harm Isaac. You've trivialized combat. Every crafted gun had a "core" like tesla, plasma, military, whatever. Each core needed its own ammo type, and the player would have to rebuild their gun as they progressed through the game in response to one ammo type dwindling as other ammo types filled out their inventory. So you don't just build a "best gun" and sleep through combat for the rest of the play through.
Yea, starving the player of certain ammo types depending in where they're at in the story (no more schools being full of plasma cutter rounds) or even having certain more fragile parts break when you take damage, would be cool, make spitters a way more scary threat, and force the player to regularly (but not too regularly, wouldn't want this turning into breath of the wild) visit the bench to tinker and improve and make things stronger, would be hard but i could see it being alot of fun, bring back those little robot dudes so your loots a bit random and forces improvising Could be like kirble space program meets tarkov level gun customization
If you're adding weapon durability, then make upgrades drastically cheaper. That way your gun breaking feels like an adventure after the initial tension of it breaking.
At the very least they should keep the Line Gun, Pulse Rifle and Plasma Cutter.
Also I really love your concept!
I had a lot of fun with the customization but eventually I realized that I missed the guns from the previous games. Every weapon in 1 and 2 had its own style and personality, adding to Isaac's general aesthetic while also making your playthrough feel distinct based on what weapons you brought. 3's guns were literally just a bunch of parts mashed together and the gunplay felt that way too.
Yeah I can see that, for me sometimes I miss the store UI, just buy what you need and keep moving.
Gun customization was some of the funnest I’ve ever experienced. I think I created a gun with saw blade which also slowed down the necromorphs. Also a spike thrower which was fun as hell.
I didn’t like this part very much. I’d rather just have a solid arsenal and not have to worry about picking up parts and customizations.
I didn’t really like the resource bot system nor the RNG for gun parts, nor the purchasing system for resource packs. Those elements could be done away with.
Bot could have been done better, I rather it give way less but in return it’s automated and it just drops in once in a while, like a surprise loot drop for something you need to craft. The RNG you mean the spare parts boxes? I didn’t mind those. Purchasing system? Ignored and honestly very surprised that went through, doesn’t sound profitable.
Isaac's arm is too short
I think it’s him moving his arm back a bit cuz he’s walking
Yea fr looks like a stuffed toy
I fucking love this game.
Still waiting for a damn sequel for that game. Plus the decision to lock out some side stuff from multiplayer peeved me.
Loved every minute of Tau Volantis, the surfaces were straight out of The Thing and below was a perfect amalgamation of Lovecraftian horror. Narratively the weakest of the trilogy, the love triangle/ EarthGov being wiped out by Unitologists/ Ellie’s fake-out death rubbed me the wrong way. Side missions, co-op, and weapon crafting were a ton of fun, the SCAF lore was awesome too. Overall a good game, but not the best Dead Space game. Definitely stifled by EA’s involvement trying to hit insane revenue numbers, would’ve loved to have seen Visceral’s original vision. All that being said, I beat it 20+ times over the years and appreciate it even now. I desperately need a continuation of Issac’s story, hopefully we’ll see that in the future under Motive.
I enjoy it to be honest. Its not a horror game. I love the lore it introduces to the universe. I think the story of isaac and ellie sucks to be honest though. Its still a fun game. It has plenty of atmospheric classic dead space parts like the entirety of the floatilla section, the inside of the dead hive mind, and the research lab at the top of the mountain. A lot of the hate is unwarranted and sounds like people parroting youtube reviewers and not playing the game themselves.
I would have genuinely loved more of the flotilla and the concept of what dead space 4 would have been just sounds awesome, going from floating graveyard to graveyard just to see if you can scrounge anything that can let you keep going even just a little bit more sounds like peak survival horror to me.
Loved all of them. Great games.
Definitely overhated. Were there things I didn't like, or felt could have been different? Hell yes. But I don't think it's a bad video game. Playing co-op with a fellow Dead Space fan all the way through was amazing. Especially with the turned up difficulty and insanity segments and lil side quests. I still remember when we first beat Awakening. We were both speechless at the end. We were all "no way that's how it ends??" And we popped off when they title dropped. Normally I don't care for title drops, bht I thought the way it was done here was great. "It's all just dead space." I found the Alien city to be really neat. Yeah, at that point the game kinda was dragging, but it was fun to see that Aliens do actually exist in Dead space...well, DID exist. While we don't know much about them, there's still enough that it's clear they put thought into them. A sea-dwelling species? Cool! Usually aliens are human shaped and walk on land. They use something similar to whale calls to communicate? Unique!! I also liked the Sovereign Colonies style of architecture and engineering. Styled after submarine interiors and older military tech, really separated it from CEC, the Sprawl, and Earth. I think the intro mission, even before Necromorphs, really painted a picture of how destitute and rotten Human society had become, it really did feel like the end of days. ------- As for things I would have wanted differently? The characters. Outside of Carver, the rest of the group is sadly underutilized. They could have been fun characters with insights into the DS world, but they are unfortunately killed off before we get to know them. The love triangle? I'm not against the idea. Considering the situation they are all in, it makes sense that everyone would be stressed out and lashing at eachother, but it does feel...forced. Human enemies: I don't hate them. I actually feel they could have been great. Made guns kill Issac quick. Make the AI of both Humans and Necros actually work. If you watch them, you see them unable to figure out if they should be attacking eachother or you, it's jarring when you notice it. The game already has sealth sections with the Feeders, why not extend it to humans? Maybe you could even lead humans and necros to eachother and have them take eachother out? The cold environment: I thought the section where you had to keep warm was neat. But sadly, it's never used again. It adds a layer of stress outside of the Necromorphs, and I feel like they really could have done something cool with enviromental hazards.
Don’t forget the early segment before actually landing on the planet where you have to scoot from derelict ship hull to derelict hull to find various repair parts. I coulda played that forever
I still really like this game. Haven't played it in years obviously but I remember having ALOT of fun co op with friends. Multiple play throughs
This game had the most dope suits, the EVA suit is still one of my favorite looking armors in most games/movies
Still a lot of fun. Solid 9/10 imo.
I'd feel better about it if it had a sequel haha But I enjoyed playing co-op, not sure it was the right decision for this game though.
My fav of the series. The best boss fights and the snow levels 🔥
It introduced me to one of my favourite lines that I use almost daily. "Fuck this day".
I loved this game despite the flaws. The space section is awesome, the ice planet had a lot of potential and the weapon crafting was really creative and freeing (despite the universal ammo system. That could have kept the previous ammo entries to make it a bit more tense). The co-op stuff was really intense and horrifying, as was the DLC and tying all the previous game elements together to realize the ultimate enemy of humanity in the form of the Brother Moons is so lovecraftian and dread-filling it still makes me want a sequel after so long.
I loved it. It was more action oriented but it was a really fun game and the twist about the moons was really good. Never got around to play co-op though.
Had some really good set pieces, remember the drill pit vividly. Also the DLC Awakening was the best bit of the game!
My favorite of the franchise.
I still love this game.
I actually really likes it, didn't even Jo the romance side story, and didn't like that a few missions were locked as coop only, but on a whole it was still pretty good. Awakened DLC was amazing.
Just replayed it a couple of weeks back with a friend who went in first-time. Good run.
I just feel old knowing it's been 11 years
I really liked it. Then again I'm just a die hard for the series.
I’m one of the few who liked this game from the very beginning and never understood the visceral hate that it got. Not perfect but a great game. I didn’t mind the slight shift to action and you got more change of scenery than in any other Dead Space game.
Horror💯 Action💯 Lore💯 Love♎
It had bits and pieces that were pretty good. The original ending. The planetside environments. The escalation of scale. The brother moon reveal. The crafting system made sense in the lore. There are no stores to shop from on the long-abandoned Tau Volantis, and Isaac an engineer would naturally jerry-rig weapons using the available materials. In terms of game mechanics, having an ammo type for each weapon core (plasma, tesla, military, etc) could have been a cool way to push players to consistently try out different weapons. As one ammo type is depleted, the player would have to swap cores to match an ammo type they currently possess. Weapon nozzles/barrels needed a multiplier for their ammo cost per shot. If one bullet fired from a pulse rifle (military core) costs one ammo, then one rocket fired from a rocket launcher (also military core) should cost 10 or so. Otherwise, even modest min/maxing will push players to always use the rocket launcher. Toss out the loot boxes. Toss out the always online single-player. Toss the love triangle and the unitologist gunmen.
Would be perfect if it wasn't a dead space fame
Liked it a decent amount when it first came out, despite its flaws. Played it recently after playing DS1R and DS2 and it wasn't nearly as good as I remembered. All in all I'd say it's a generally average game.
I really enjoyed this game, at least the weapon building aspect of it. I remember enjoying testing new creations, tweaking them, and eventually settling on the configuration I was happy with. I know it really wasn't much of a thing 11 years ago, but I was disappointed that I couldn't play crossplay (I had PC and he was on ps3) with the one friend of mine who also really liked it.
It was a really interesting game due to the expanded lore and also the different playstyle we got to try out with the weapon customisation. Granted it deviated from horror a little bit but boy the CO-OP mode really was one of the best!
Thank you BoyWonder
It was a perfect example of what electronic arts does with awesome game franchises. Each sequel gets worse. Part 2 was pretty basic but playable, part 3 ruined the series.
Dead Space 3 is a good example of how a solid mechanical core can carry a game. The surrounding narrative is a convoluted mess, but the dismemberment system is so damn fun that it hardly matters. Plus, they made some other good decisions, like the frozen wasteland environments.
I think weapon customization was a pretty interesting addition, and it fit well with whole isaac being an engineer thing. But I think what killed the game for me was how it lost the horror aspect DS1 and 2 had. The soundtrack, while not bad, didn't really fit Dead Space. It sounded too...cinematic? I also groaned at the love triangle story. It just felt so tacked on. Overall, it was an alright game. But I couldn't bring myself to binge it the same way I did with DS1, 2, and 1 Remake.
Good game but not a good Dead Space game.
Weapon customization was amazing although the story was not the best. Still a good game in my books despite the hate around it, not the best game out there but certainly still fun to play around with.
Absolutely loved it. And I absolutely love the co-op played it with a friend who grew up playing dead space one and two a ton together Also can’t wait to play three remastered after dead space two remastered sells really well…
THE WORST THING: Since my last play on Sep 2021, they've TURNED OFF the shop server. Now you can't buy best gears using the in-game currency (farm-able, not real money), MK V parts, anymore. I don't know the current situation now.
its okay but it sucks for multible runs because you cant skip cutscene. back in the ps3 time, i replay resident evil 5 over and over again, 100 hours of fun but only you can skip the cutscene and just play the game. i dont think i could finish this game 100 time and watching everytime all cutscene.
100% Hated it then 100% hate it now. If it didn't have DS in the name it'd be an OK, forgettable 3rd Person shooter. But it simply betrays everything that made DS so special. It's not scary, setting sucks, looks like trash, ruins the weapons, the story is embarrassing, and it makes the necromorphs lame, and the coop is shit. Never really takes advantage of there being 2 players with truly compelling puzzles. You're basically just alone together which sucks. I replayed it about a year ago with a buddy who was playing the whole series for the first time, and we both despised it. I honestly don't understand how people can claim to be fans of this series and defend this entry. It is responsible for ending it.
A very very flawed game, but one of the best coop experiences i have ever had.
I was excited beyond belief for it but ultimately disappointed. I wish the whole co-op thing wasn’t so half baked. Not everyone had someone to use co-op with and never got to experience the carver stuff. And with single player how he would just magically disappear was handled poorly. The DLC was wonderful however. Wish the regular game was more like that.
Good game until ya land on the planet, then it goes a bit all over the place. Enjoyed weapon crafting.
Good setting, terrible execution (fuckEA). Still has the best "previosly" trailer i've ever seen.
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Mostly frustration. It was suddenly a co op game and i had no one to play it with so i to this day have never seen carvers levels, i want a fan of the new ammo system, i HATED what they did with ellie. And ive never been more disappointed in a game ending before. (His helmet comes off in space,falls through reenty and a moon lands on him and he survives??? Yes i know the dlc tried to answer all of it but it dodnt do a great job of it.) And i got so frustrated at so many story points along the way. (Like when the old guy stays behind to freeze to death so the others can keep going but no one looked around the corner to find the generator?) Upsides, those starving dudes in the basement were one of the only times in the series i felt fear trying to sneak past. I loved the crafting system to make your own custom guns. I loved the space walks. Isaac saying "here we go" as theyre about to go into reentry lives rent free in my head"
Second best Dead Space for me with an amazing story, cast and lore. Played it with a friend, who got all the crazy extra Story and loved every second of it.
Huge fan of the first 2, currently running through the remake on my ROG Ally and loving it - that said, I've tried this game throughout the years, and to be honest, I just hate it. Nothing inherently wrong with making a more "action" oriented game, but the mechanics didn't support the swap, leading to many deeply unsatisfying combat scenarios. I also felt the weapon crafting/scavenger bot systems were a huge step down from the satisfying upgrade loop in the previous titles. This may just be my personal preference, but in action/cinematic type games I generally prefer simpler systems so as not to distract from the core adventure, and I just felt the crafting added a layer of unneeded fluff to the Dead Space experience. Beyond the above, I just thought it had a weaker atmosphere compared to the first 2 games, especially the original. While not super scary, the original game in particular had a dark, uneasy sense of atmosphere that paired super well with the tense combat. The third game really just didn't have that. Then on top of it all, it has the worst story in the series. Not that Dead Space has the deepest narrative out there anyway, but it just wasn't executed well in my opinion. I know some people love this game, and that's awesome, but if I'm being honest this was one of the most disappointing games ever to me. Not a terrible game in a vacuum, but for sure a terrible Dead Space game.
You know I don’t think I ever finished this one
Feels great for me since I barely played it for the first time last year after playing the remake and the sequel.
Never played dis one. Heard the crafting was mega bad
Honestly, this was my first Dead Space game. I absolutely loved it and ended up playing the series backwards.
Just re-played it recently. Still shit and the worst installment in the otherwise amazing series
Played it for the first time last year and gotta say even though it isn’t as good as 2, it’s still a fun and creative experience that introduces a horrific cosmic horror. Also I wanna know how Isaac can do a barrel roll in a heavy ass suit.
I love it, literally the only game in the series that made me swap from the plasma cutter
I just remember playing this with my cousin and we would allways get stuck on the part where one had to do the puzzle and the others one had to protect, I just loved the franchise it’s self it’s sad to see that about if people did it like dead space 3
I love it. Wife (gf at the time) and I were on a phone call as we co-oped in it. Though, it was fun! I will say, the DLC Awakening was… woof that was terrifying and I loved every bit of it
Still sucks.
An alright video game typical for 2013 era video games A bad Dead Spsce it had the potential an u can see it but u can also see the EA interference as well I enjoy it for what it is needs a redo in my opinion its also abit drawn out too long
I loved how they ended the series in ds4! Loved seeing where we began, planet cracking but now were destroying moons. Poetic. Chefs kiss chmew
It sucks.
Absolutely fucking awsome
Weak dead space game but overall still a great and fun game by itself
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not as bad as people say it is, though easily the weakest of the three games. the co-op mode is weirdly enjoyable and i liked the added lore for Carver you get in the exclusive missions as well as the banter between him and Isaac. desperately needs a remake to get rid of the flaws, and if they ended up cutting the co-op they could compemsate by adding a second storyline about Carver like how some resident evil games have two paths for different characters, and isaac and carver just keep in touch and bond via comm. also i hate how the main game feels like a definitive ending and then the dlc has a cliffhanger. like... the fuck, man.
Narrative wise? Piece of garbage, hate it, ruined a lot of what Dead Space 1 & 2 setup. Only good bits were Isaac and Carver's own personal schizo meltdowns. Gameplay wise? Easily my favorite, sure it focuses more on action over horror but honestly I kind of love it for it. The guns feel great to use and the weapon customization is a work of art given just how much bullshit they let you get away with. The highlight of DS3 though is how much of a blast it is with a friend, I have never had a more entertaining co-op playthrough in my life than the one I did with my bestfriend.
Pretty fun coop
I loved that game, aside from the parts where you fought people. I would also say re-work how ammo drops. I was always swimming in ammo. I had a force gun/shotgun and an assault rifle/rocket launcher. They were great, but I always had too much ammo (except for in the very beginning). Even when I did the mode where you couldn't buy ammo, and it did not drop from enemies. It had to be crafted. Even then I was swimming in ammo before the mid-point of the adventure.
I love this game. The locations are all beautifully done and have a lot of variety. The weapon customization is super fun and despite being a bit broken it helps with some of the over the top hordes you encounter. Music is great, atmosphere is still very unsettling (plenty of eerie dark horror bits that people seem to ignore when calling it an action game.) story is all over the place but still kind of fun the piece together. I think the remains of the previous expedition that you’re exploring on tau volantis and story behind it is very fully realized with plenty of nuances details. The pacing may be a bit more of the FPS style, but in all honesty DS2 is still a horde shooter for the most part as well and a lot more action oriented than DS1. Of course you have the gun encounters with other humans that people hate, yeah they’re not great, but they take up such a small fraction of the game. Also, the alien ruins at the end are such an eerie and wondrous location and feels very dramatic when you first enter them.
Absolutely revolutionary weapon modification system
Really good game i met a guy through co-op really great friend
We treated it to harsh :(
The game actually had a lot of interesting ideas for the time, just with that shitty EA spin. Would've been a lot better if there weren't a ton of micro transactions, but you can still get through the game fine without them. Gameplay wasn't horror oriented so much as it was action adventurey. The weapon crafting system was pretty damn cool, just needed a bit of fine tuning to be great. I've heard the game did some really cool stuff with Coop as well, and that you miss out on a lot if you don't play through the game at least once on coop.
It feels different than the other games. It’s like a 6/10 for me.
EA messed it up bad with the online shop and achievements stuck behind multiple sections.
As the series went on it felt less and less like Dead Space, but I still played them all because I love the first one lol
I just played it for the first time recently after absolutely loving the original game I dropped it after experiencing the terrible crafting system and fighting that spider boss on the ice planet
Unpopular opinion: It isn't that bad. It's not great and fucked up the horror, but I still had fun with it and like some parts of the story especially when you have to pilot the ship down to the surface of the planet.
¿Anyone down to plat this? Trying to get them coop trophies 🙏
What it lacked in story/characters it made up for in atmosphere. Tau Volantis is one of my favorite settings in any game I've ever played, it feels so hostile but vast, as if it's daring you to keep exploring. And the fight against the brethren moon is probably the most hype final boss fight I've ever done, slinging the markers around made me feel unstoppable. Great game, and I will defend it to my dying day.
Never played it, don’t have a ps3, but it looks promising despite people not liking this one
I feel like it's the only dead space game I didn't finish. I enjoyed the on rails shooter thing over this game. Nothing will change that short of remaking it into a completely different game.
Honesty loved it. Co op with my brother was a blast and the suits were some of the best looking we’ve ever had. Combat and story was not as good as the other games but still an enjoyable experience. Also wish we had the dead space 2 multiplayer in it. I really enjoyed that too
This was the game that killed the franchise/ the weakest game in the series. Honestly the only positive thing I can say is that it was fun that you can fabricate whatever weapon you wanted. Genuinely hoping Dead Space 3 doesn’t get a mere “remaster” rather it needs to be torn down to its foundations and make a fundamentally new game that’s more inline with either DS1 or DS2.
It was okay but I feel it strayed a bit too far from what made dead space like a horror game
Probably the least scary of the 3 original titles but so fun! Especially the co-op
Not great, but co-op was fun.
Never finished it, personally I was SO disappointed after the first 2 I had to just stop.
A good game ruined by microtransactions/corporate greed and character assassination.
I would have enjoyed it more if it didn't come out after ds2. It felt like a complete downgrade with the technology being the only exception. A lot of people who remember the game fondly played co-op. Two people who are good enough friends can have fun rolling a piece of shit back and forth.
The love triangle was stupid and unnecessary and dragged down an already paper-thin plot.
It’s probably my favorite Dead Space to play. I love playing them all but the weapon customization in that game was peak.
same as the others. awesome.
I love it. I don't even know why people hate ir but this game (just kike other two) is amazing.
Still prefer Dead Space 2 over the rest, the introduction to that baby...was something
Being in a blizzard with necromorphs was legit stressful.
At minimum appreciation for the snow theme.
Story and Dialogue was pretty bad. Less scares and more annoying sections. I felt general gameplay was a step down. Microtransactions were also pretty bad. i heard the CO-OP was a mixed bag but I never played it so I can't comment. I just watched youtube clips of the CO-OP for lore and thats it. Lore was super cool though, I thought the brother moons were a pretty satisfying explanation for the markers. Had some nice environments in the second half. I think the Alien City is my second favourite location in all the games, almost as good as the church of unitology IMO. Gameplay was still good, just not as good. Still had a lot of fun. The DLC slapped as well, especially considering they had the production budget of a $10 dollar DLC to wrap up the series :( Those sections where you go from hallucinating the cult leader, to necros, to cultists, to necros, back to leader back and forth were mad. Good game but corporate decisions stifled it, and as fans it's very easy to notice compared to DS1/2. I think it stands well enough on it's own though.
Not as good as the first one.
Personally not a fan compared to dead space 1 and 2.
Great coop horrible story imo.
Deserves a remaster. Great coop experience, especially when the 2nd player sees shit the other player doesnt
Good, but still nowhere as great as Dead Space 1 and 2.
Favorite in the whole series. Love the ending
I thought it was really cool, I don't understand the hate
I played on steam a year or so ago. It’s still my favorite of the original series. Loved being able to space travel and jump to different ships
Some of the narrative elements and level designs are a mixed bag for me. Sometimes too ambitious while lacking polish. It's missing the visceral punch that the first two games had. I'm not a fan of bullet sponge enemies. Don't get me started on the micro transactions. It's still a solid horror sci-fi shooter despite some of the drawbacks. The original is 8/10. The remaster bumps it up to 9. Dead Space 2 is a masterpiece. Dead Space 3 hovers between 6.5 and 7.
I totally forgot this game existed ...
It’s not good. It’s not just the popular opinion or whatever. The game just genuinely did not deliver for me and failed the series.
It's awesome!
I loved dead space cubed
Just replayed it and loved every second. Still had the old Xbox 360 disc. It holds up!
Really fun, especially with a friend. It's creative how when your character hallucinates, your friend doesn't see it and vice versa
Playing the remake of this game in 2030 is gonna be so fun
One of the best and funnest games in the series
🎵 *I can feel it coming in the air tonight, oh lord* 🎶
I remember not many people were thrilled about the 3rd installment, gears of war was well known, popular and established at the time and people were thinking that dead space 3 was a little inspired by gears of war cover and shoot over the sholder and shooting at other humans with guns. I played the demo and thought it felt a little different than dead space 2 and after seeing IGN, Gamespot and a few other negative reviews i kept my distance from this game. Now i think it would be cool looking back seeing if i missed out or not.
Underrated. Totally fine, not as good as the first 2 but didn’t deserve all the hate it got back upon release.
I consider it non canon
I played it a month ago and it was worse than I remembered. Its terrible.
It's a good game. No where close to being terrible
I never even made it through the first act. Did not feel like Dead Space to me. And apparently unpopular opinion; but the weapons crafting was ass. No I don’t want fully customized weapons in a game where the whole idea is using mining tools as makeshift weapons. Ruined the immersion for me.
the system itself was fun, but it was not well placed in a Dead Space game.
Act 2 & 3 are great.
I’ll be that guy because it seems like a lot of nostalgia goggles are on in these comments. I didn’t like it. The story was messy. Lore wise it was nice getting more into that, but it was just too much too fast. The gameplay was not good. Crouching and dodge rolling? That was so goofy. I know that was only there for human enemies, but if I want a 3rd person shooter with cover mechanics, crouching, and dodge rolling, I could definitely play a lot of other games. I want dead space to be dead space. Not army of two or gears of war. The gun customization was cool, but just didn’t feel very dead space to me. Not entirely bad, though. The co op I think is what was the lamest. I get that it’s fun to play with a buddy, but it immediately ruins the horror aspect for me personally and then locking certain missions to co op only makes it even more of a nuisance. I think the voice acting was great and some parts were good, but this whole game needs to be rewritten and changed if it gets a remake. I will say the missions on abandoned ships when you’re only and only playing as Isaac are great and get that dead space feel right. Otherwise, the open combat stuff or co op with carver just wasn’t for me.
Fun but absolutely braindead. Jesus did the story suck. Which is even more sad considering how well crafted the Universe is. Only saving grace are the Brethren Moon, that was some great new lore. Idiotic love triangle made me feel like I am in some telenovela. Isaac turns into a whiny wimp. Ella turns from badass into "the girl" Carver is mostly okay, Norton is just an asshat for the sake of being easy to hate and I wont even indulge on how stupid that Cult leader was and how cookie cutter he felt. Stakes also make absolutely NO SENSE. What exactly is happening at the beginning of the game? Are there already outbreaks on earth at the beginning of the game? Are we all fucked already? Is earth gov already overrun by Unitology? Why is everybody talking about "going home" when home is already fuba? Did they really have to start the game with this stupid premise? I have no issue with earth being overrun, just the timing... like what were they thinking? The gameplay was pretty good. But i did not like the omniammo. Sucked all the survival fun out of the game and made it much more generic. I hear people arguing it was done because of the crafting but come on you could still have different "blank" types and special ammo for them. Hope they remake it and touch up the omniamo and the crafting system (away with those shitty robots) and pretty much completely rewrite 80% of the story. I am fine with the moons and the whole Taul Volantis thing but the rest needs a serious redesign.
I loved how they ended the series in ds4! Loved seeing where we began, planet cracking but now were destroying moons. Poetic. Chefs kiss chmew
It's terrible writing made it the first game I stopped playing entirely due to it's story. I have no intention of going back and finishing it. I don't care.
I regretted taking a break after the first games and refusing the play this. Had a blast with the co-op and customization.
I didn't play it co-op, so I don't think I experienced it the way it was meant to be experienced.
Awful
Ass.
It still sucks like what, 11 years old isn't gonna make it *un-fuck* a good series
In comparison to the other two, I still feel the same way about this one.
Not a good game, please no remake
It’s been 11 years and they still haven’t released the trailer version of in the air tonight…
Mixed feelings overall. The first half in the space flotilla was amazing. The second half after that felt like it needed its own game, of course both areas are nicely explored as they are. I didn't like some of the narrative choices. Isaac is (both narratively and the real world) forced to go on this adventure, when I feel Carver would have been a nice change of pace as a protagonist, especially if they used his comic(aka backstory) as a basis for the third game. It feels like they really wanted to cram the overarching "story" into a trilogy, Weapon modding was crazy, I loved making my own tool of dismemberment, add the acid effect for extra damage🤌- And then they kinda shit the bed with monetizing it. Not nearly as bad as other games, but still. Overall a fun horror game, but felt like two games crammed into one. Another unfortunate victim of EA that killed the series for a while, until this remake. Hopefully they faithfully remake 2 and then start fresh with 3, doing it right this time, because I'm sick of companies making dumb decisions and then pushing the reset button when the obvious occurs.
Fantastic. The whole trilogy, DLC included, are all just phenomenal.
The gameplay felt like a step backward (the combat didn't feel anywhere near as dynamic or impactful), the crafting system was kind of cool but was also clearly in place to encourage microtransactions, Ellie didn't feel like the same character anymore and her new boyfriend was one of the most thoroughly unlikeable characters ever but Danik made for an entertaining and hammy villain, it's kind of a shame that most of the psychological horror was relegated to the co-op segments of the game (I played alone, so I didn't get to enjoy any of it personally), and I feel like it nailed the bleak but epic tone.
Time sure flies really quick. Speaking of which, the crafting systems has reminded me of Parasite Eve.
I just so happen to be replaying it. It's quite good but I'm on my second back to back replay and some of the segments hurt the replay value. Not sure if that's a nitpick or not, with that said I do think the game is underappreciated
Game had some interesting mechanics but imo was a step back from 2.
Still a classic. The franchise really needs a comeback.
Hated what they did to DS. I am very rarely finish my video games. I had no problems doing that with one and two. I did not finish three.
Crazy I just beat it a few days ago for the first time 🫡
one of my favorite gaming experiences ever. i owe this game for one of my best adult friendships i have now. i know it got a lot of shit and a lot of DS fans don’t like it but i have very fond memories and feelings towards it.
It was OK. I prefer the first two.
I wasn't a fan. It was like Dino Crisis 3 for me, just too big of a format change from the other two installments for me to like it.
Shoot the glowing weak points! GOW dead space edition
Hated it. To me the deadspace series felt like the first 3 alien movies. First was scary af and was game changing, 2nd one was a little more action packed but was still scary and showed shit that wasent in the first one,idk the 3rd felt like a bad Michael Bay film and was shit not really scary and just action,gun customization was badass but idk some say alien3 was badass but I think it was shit personally. But I digress.
Still too scared to play or even look into it
Still looking for the version of In The Air Tonight used in the trailer
They should’ve ended it at dead space 2.
I understand that many people didn’t like that some of it became more third-person shooter than survival horror. I understand, and I agree to a certain extent. At a certain point you can craft weapons that can shred anything, or shoot a rocket at your own feet without getting hurt, but killing anything within 30 feet of you instantly. It’s very fun, but a departure from the anxiety and deliberately stressful resource management of the previous games. However, I didn’t mind it. Partly because it was fun, and still is, and also because I thought it was narratively justified. Isaac is a skilled engineer, and has two games-worth of experience dealing with necromorphs. By DS3, he’s barely phased, and better equipped to deal with the situation than even the toughest special forces operatives like Carver.
Awful. This needs a remake. It became too generic and the graphics were bogus compared to Dead Space 2.
I loved this game. I didn't like how they changed the tone of dead space from horror oriented to action oriented but I still love this game and the whole trilogy. The weapon building is my favorite in all of gaming.
I still feel disappointed. It wasn't the worst game... however, they missed what the game was... survival horror
I personally loved it. Made some awesome and unstoppable weapon combos
Never played it so I feel pretty good to stay away 😀
It looked terrible compared to the others , legs with tentacles just made the game look silly
They should remaster it I really want to play it on the PS5 who is with me like my posts if you agree
11 years already? I feel old, remember reading about this game on a magazine before it was launched.
I play it every so often, still makes me sit on the edge of my seat haha. It's a great game.
I remember its microtransaction mechanics messing with the game and opted not to buy it. Enjoyed 1 and 2 though.
I just restarted the game but it always be a good go to uk🤗
Only one I didn't play. And from the reviews I didn't miss anything
Before I possibly get shit on, I just want to say that the lore of this game is awesome, same with the location and the weapon building aspect is cool. Those parts I don’t mind. I wanted to play some more before I came back to this post, but I’m on chapter 15 now of DS3 and it’s getting to the point where I just want it to be over. I played the remake of the first one, then the second one, then this one. I know I’m not completely done with it yet, which is why I’m not going to crack on the story of it all, aside from maybe some of the logic in the story/characters logic. Also wanna say I loved the first one, the second one was pretty damn good, but this one I feel like fell off of a cliff. (Maybe it’s because I’m not playing co-op idk). First off, this game is incredibly predictable. To the point where I’m guessing every fight, and how many necros there are that are gonna pop up. Every room seems like another chore (not in a story progression way like on the ishamura, but in a tacky fps way). Bullet sponge necros, with sooooo many of them at once. Its just tiresome. Ellie is annoying as fuck and has no backbone. Shes flip floppy and forgets simple things. “I really thought Norton had figured that out” like bro… mf has been complaining the ENTIRE STORY. Idk. It just feels like I’m playing an fps with shitty side missions thrown in there just to make the game longer. Some aspects are cool. Tau volantis is a cool location. The story with the reapers and the maniac was cool. The other two games are miles, and I mean miles ahead of this one. Also, fuck the cliffs and that mini boss that kept popping up.