Dead Space: Extraction is a Sci-Fi Horror Rail-Shooter for PS3 and Wii, developed by Visceral Games, and published by Electronic Arts.
It is the spin-off games of the series and prequel to original 2008 game called Dead Space, which already came out on year 2008 before this game came year later on 2009.
This game is spectacularly amazing with fluid gameplay controls, great horror environments, superb graphics, and it has great scare factor of the game's overall atmosphere puts this game so much fun to play. I haven't tried the original Wii version because I wanted to get the PS3 version to have experience with the use of Playstation Move controller, so do you think the PS3 version is good as the original version? Yes, this version offers graphical enhancements running on HD, using the two different controllers like Dualshock 3 and PS Move, and it is closer to Wii counterpart except the bonus material are included on Wii version only.
Presentation
This game takes place before the events of original Dead Space, the story starts with the groups of miners are helping to experimenting on the Red Marker, which causing to have disturbing side-effects on rest of the crews and respawning the deadly monsters known as Necromorphs. A week later, Nathan McNeil and Gabriel Weller, who are P-Sec Squad members, has the mission to survive themselves and protecting the woman named Lexine Murdoch from Necromorphs during the attack on Headquarters.
I say the story is somewhat sound good as the original game because having the backstory of the game is showing what was happening on the whole story that involves attacking and scaring people in space.
I like how Lexine Murdoch wanted to know what's going on after she learned her death of boyfriend Sam Caldwell was killed at the start of the story is due to Red Marker that causing to regenerates more monsters and giving too much visions on their head.
The story worked very well with so much backstories, discoving audio logs to learn more useful information, great story dialogue, and of course the characters are decent, but they aren't good as the characters from Main series of the game, such as Dead Space 1, 2 and 3.
Gameplay
The gameplay plays really well with the PS Move controller because of the variety of the control allows the weapon handles very well with basic fire, fast reloading and you can twist your PS Move sideways for alternative fire making the different gun firing so much easier to kill enemies.
You can use stasis to slow down the objects and enemies and Kinesis is used for picking items, pushing and pulling the objects, and throwing things including projectiles at the enemies are the coolest things in the game.
You can use melee attack by using the melee weapons on enemies or objects by swinging Navigation controller or PS Move itself and of course you can shake off the enemies by swinging controller as well to avoid getting damage.
The camera control are useful for moving the camera around to look for useful items and weapons during the time limit.
The weapons can be upgraded by picking the power nodes somewhere from the level making the weapon more powerful with better firing accuracy and increasing level rate.
I really enjoyed the game atmosphere with excellent boss level, has great action of the game, some scary moments, zero gravity stages, and it's darker and sinister of the game environments makes the game pretty straight forward in the right positions of the gameplay quality.
Graphics
I say the PS3 version has improved the visuals effects, backgrounds layouts, and running with HD makes the graphics look suitable for HD consoles than the Wii version. The animations has great level design, superb character models, and has the darker environments with less lighting, dimmed brightness and gritty sets of the game makes it look creeper and scary that fits really good on this game.
Overall, the graphics are pretty good so far with HD updates shows the PS3 version takes more advantages over the original Wii version.
Music and Sounds
I say the game has really fantastic music and sounds because it has horror ambient with scarier background sounds and frightening soundtrack really fits great in the game, and of course the sound effects is quite disturbing as well because of how creepy the enemies would sounded like in the game.
The voice acting are pretty sounds good for the characters with suitable voices and simple character dialogue with extra expressions shows what the characters are acted like in the game makes lot more sense that puts the game presentation sounded so good with great voice cast.
Special Features
This game has 10 challenge mode, trophy support and collecting audio logs, but I've heard the Wii version has bonus content, which the PS3 version have lacked of having bonus content, which is quite a shame that the PS3 version didn't have one.
Advantages
Fluid Gameplay
Good Graphics
Decent Presentation
Horrific Music and sounds
Disadvantages
Bonus material are not included on PS3 version
Melee weapons and Rivet gun are the weakest weapons in the game
Final Verdict
Presentation 8/10 - Great backstory, good dialogue, and decent characters.
Gameplay 8/10 - Fluid controls, great weapons, fun factor levels, and excellent boss levels.
Graphics 8.5/10 - Improved visual effects and backgrounds layouts, level design, superb character models, darker environments are looked fantastic on HD gaming.
Music and Sounds 8.5/10 - Well made horror ambient, creepy sound effects, and decent voice acting.
Special Features 5/10 - 10 challenge mode, trophy support and collecting audio logs, but lacked of bonus materials from Wii version.
Overall 8/10 - Dead Space: Extraction is a magnificent Sci-Fi Horror Rail-Shooter game by Visceral Game puts the game overall so entertaining, which offers fantastic scare factors of the game has lots more scary atmosphere, great storyplot makes the story sound good, and gameplay works very well that the game took advantage of using PS Move giving the overall experience so fun to play with, so if you're the fan of the rail-shooter games then buy this game for Wii version, if you prefer to get physical copy of the game. If you wanted to play PS3 version then you can get it by downloading the game from PS Store or it is also included on Dead Space 2 Limited Edition.
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