The Dead Space series is renowned for its inventive approach to the survival horror genre. Amongst the crowded shooter market, Dead Space found its home as a great horror series. It originally found its reputation through the amount of tension established during its missions.

While the buzz surrounding the game brought fear to a lot of the series' veteran players over the past few months, I'm happy to report that the final product is a near-perfect balance of classic Dead Space and action-oriented gameplay.

Dead Space 3 was an enjoyable game. Had a blast playing it. Although it is weaker in the "survival horror" category than it's predecessors, it was a fun experience for sure. Can be a bit confusing at first while you're trying to learn the new engineering/crafting options for your weapons, and it...

Great game has lots of good sound effects and great graphics. Only problem is that the game gets kinda too overdrawn when it comes to a part in the...

Great price

Class Dead Space Experien; Classic Gameplay; New Co Op Mode; New Weapon Crafting

Crafting Tricky; Similar Look Throught; The Game

Before we get started, I'm going to preface this review with what it isn't. While the presence of a substantial amount of launch DLC that could have easily become a part of the product at large has its implications, I'm not going to focus on that in the course of this review.

Decent story with genuine scares; Crafting system adds a whole new element to the game; Voice; music; and sound effects deliver the atmosphere; Cooperative play raises the bar for how it should be done; Additional difficulty modes for the brave

Personality pack for bots should have been on the disc; Havok bugs are still present and accounted for; Last few levels are more shooter than horror

Since its introduction with the first game, we've seen the Dead Space universe unfold and expand with a mixture of transmedia releases and a clear eye for detail and narrative foundation.

It's hard to fault Dead Space 3 overall, because it offers so much for so many different types of gamer. The microtransactions present an interesting dilemma for the industry and consumers, but the game does a great job of balancing these out with superb gameplay pacing and difficulty settings that...

+ An all-round explosive; fun experience; + Great weapon crafting feature; + Difficulty settings make it more about survival; + Co-op is a great addition

- Story is unbalanced; boring; - Complicated crafting seems to force microtransactions; - Gets a little too repetitive near the end

It's an unfortunate side effect of today's industry that almost every one of our favourite franchises we enjoyed in our youths is being butchered or shaken up to the point where it barely resembles what it originally started off as.

Isaac Clarke suffers reversals of fortune with such speed and regularity, it's like it is bound to some sort of wheel. A wheel... of... fortune. His reversals get reversed, he climbs to the top of a mountain only to be thrown back down - he's a representation of the Buddhist philosophy that life is...