Finished Dead Space 3

I expected this to be bad, but I did not expect it to be THIS bad. I should point out I played it in Co-Op, and I'm glad I did because if I played it solo, I don't think I would of survive how bad this game truly is. Anyway, this is one of the worst sequel I've ever played. I'd even go as far to say that the drop off from Dead Space 2 to 3 is the biggest in all of gaming. This game is a absolute cringe train wreck of garbage that somehow takes many step backward.

The gameplay of this game is a major step down from the previous 2 games. The weapon customization while cool on paper is very poorly handle, it doesn't make the gun progression fun at all. Don't get me started on the crafting aspect or the fact this existed for microtransaction DLC gun. Kinesis is somehow the worst its even been, where you can't interact with almost anything. The enemy variety, apart from one cool new enemy variant, every enemy is just worse and much less scary, and they add a ton of human and zombie like enemy that are just boring. How do you go from the amazing and tactical gunplay of Dead Space 2 to this boring poorly done 3rd Person Cover Shooter. The inventory management is a joke with just how much healing and ammo they give you (even if I still burned through a lot of it because of how chaotic I sometime play), it is insane. We needed to switch the game to hard because of how much of a joke the amount of stuff it gave us was. At point we literally had to drop like 5 med pack to the ground. The level design of this game, absolutely boring, generic and repetitive. At some time it was so repeated I though I was playing Metroid for the NES, and than there is a ton of backtracking to the same repeated area and it becomes a elevator waiting simulator. Also, almost all the bosses were just copy pasted and hot garbage, purely annoying. The only part of this game that decently cool design is the final area in the last 3 chapters of the game, which were by far the best part of the game.

On a technical level, this game is somehow the worst looking game of the trilogy by a long shot. How? I don't know. We also go from Dead Space 2, a game with almost no cuts and being super immersive, to this game, which feels like just gives you a absurd nonsensical action set piece that makes you question what is even going on (and looks horrible and sometime comically bad). I genuinely think this game as some of the worst cutscene in gaming. Audio design in this game, is not good, especially coming from the previous 2 games which had some of the best out there. The audio in this game is messy and sometime straight up glitchy. And honestly it ain't just the audio... this game in general is a absolute glitchy mess. Again, the only part of this game that looks good and as cool cutscene, is the last 3 chapters of the game.

The story, absolute train wreck as well. The plot for the most part is comically bad and stupid. They absolutely butchered Isaac and Ellies character to the point they feel like new characters. The new antagonist are so generic and predictable, it is insane. The only new good character is the Co-Op Partner character Carver, who is honestly quite cool, even if a lot of his character is lock behind side missions. The only part of this game with remotely interesting plot and character moment... are the last 3 chapters of the game, but in this case, even those are excused from dumb out of character moment and convenient plot point.

Overall this game is a top to bottom train wreck of a sequel that is somewhat "saved" slightly by the last 3 chapters. This game ruined what could of been one of the greatest video game trilogy of all time. I hope they remake this game but actually good (like style of the last 3 chapters). I will probably play the DLC, to get the true ending, if I get it on sale one day, but I never want to play this cringe dumpster fire that is the base game ever again.

2.5/10