Not having to worry about the positioning of your character makes for easier battles. This is another area where the game doesn’t retain the charm of its predecessor. If you’re playing the game co-op, with two vibrantly colored cursors on screen, you’re not going to see much unless an enemy gets on top of you. This dynamic viewpoint clashes with the targeting reticle, a gigantic, beach ball-like display that takes up far too much of the screen, hiding the excessive brutality and highest quota of dismemberment per enemy body in any game. As intended, the bobbing camera combined with dancing shadows plays tricks on your eyes, and can lead to a few shots being fired at nothing. Shaky cameras constantly distort your field of view, and you can hear your character’s labored breathing. Developer Visceral Games did a commendable job of making this experience feel more organic.

Without a suspenseful atmosphere, there isn’t much to fear, or, conversely, to draw you in.ĭead Space: Extraction runs on rails, pulling the player forward at a scripted pace. One thing is certain: I didn’t jump once while playing this game. Whether that’s due to the perspective switch from third- to first-person, the lack of dynamic lightning, or weaker scripted scares can be debated. It's not the concept or the genre or the bonus features and it's definitely the name.The horror of being hunted in the vacuum of space never quite takes grip in Dead Space: Extraction, a Wii-exclusive prequel to the exceptional Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 space drama. But we just can't put our finger on what that one thing is. Described as a 'resource strategy game where players will manage a CEC Mining operation,' your accomplishments in the game will apparently fatten up your purse in Dead Space 2 - sort of like Fable II's pub games. Planet Cracker, meanwhile, seems to be a strategy title based in the Dead Space universe. Dead Space: Extraction, of course, would be an HD port of the Wii's premier ' guided first-person experience.' At least, that's what we thought until we played Dead Space, which had us screeching in pitches so high that our beards threatened to leave us for better men.įortunately for our poor hearts, two Dead Space-themed games - Dead Space: Extraction and Planet Cracker - will hopefully offer a change of Dead Space pace when they arrive on XBLA and PSN.Ī survey that found its way into Kotaku's hands seems to indicate that both are at least in the planning phases.

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