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Dead Space Makes Rail Shooters Good Again
Chris Kavan - wrote on 06/09/2011
I have to say up front that this game came packaged with the Dead Space 2 Special Edition and that I didn't seek it out myself. Also, I did not use the Move - just your standard controller.
That being said, I was pleasantly surprised by this game. I haven't played a rail shooter in ages - I think the House of the Dead Wii games were probably the last ones, and Dead Space: Extraction is certainly better not only in terms of game play, but it even has a story that makes sense and characters that, while maybe not completely fleshed out, at least have some sense of development.
This game serves as a prequel to the original Dead Space and has you playing as a few different characters as all hell breaks lose on Aegis VII after a mysterious marker is discovered and people start going …
