The Dead Space series has been known for prioritising terror over the more
base thrills of explosive gaming blockbusters. The first games' love-letter
to sci-fi horror movies like Event Horizon, The Thing and Alien delivered EA
a cult hit from an audience demanding nerve-shredding tension.
But with success inevitably comes escalation and, as EA announced Dead Space
3, complete with co-op multiplayer, swearing military types, giant tentacled
beasties and booming weaponry, fans of the first two games wondered just
where the terror had gone. And sure enough, there's little of it to be found
in Dead Space 3.