Rating of
2/5
It's Not Dead Space
dbarry_22 - wrote on 04/05/12
For Dead Space fans, this is nothing like Dead Space. It's basically a mini-game collection with a comic story thrown in. You do get a sense of the environment and the story leading up to Dead Space 2, but the voice acting is average at best and you don't learn a ton.
The mini-games are not bad. One kind of level you take a tracer through an obstacle course. Another kind of level you have to line up laser beams in a puzzle like situation. The last kind of level you take down a bunch of defenses by sending out various types of viruses. As you go through the game, you upgrade your abilities, making multiple plays much easier.
You get to choose how the story progresses, and while the ultimate outcome is the same, how it happens varies depending on your choices. The online scoring system is pointless since the mini-games aren't about skill as it is to memorizing the levels and getting through them fast.
Basically, you get a little Dead Space story but you don't get to play Dead Space.
2/5
