I enjoyed the coop for what it was...the mental health problems your team mate suffers from lead to some strange plays...only if you do the optional coop only missions though.

But yeah I can't disagree in saying it killed the franchise...to many human enemies,like colonial marines,shitty mtx...and a lack of horror partly due to the coop.

I would love to see a reboot / dead space 4,but back to its horror roots.😎👍

It is.

Overblown issues during a time when microtransactions was a sensitive topic. I played it on hard difficult I was fully upgraded except for two slots by the end of the game. Goes to show once again reviewers are some of the worst gamers.

Sure it’s not a bad game i guess but it’s a bad Dead Space/horror game.

oh..typical thegamer.com article.

It wasn't good, at the very least. I feel like co-op horror games are inherently less scary because of the shared experience. I do appreciate DS3 doing the hallucinations for the 2nd player, making it a bit different, but then they go and make it easier and more action based with universal ammo. How is a round for a giant saw blade the same as a round for an assault rifle? Perhaps if it started its own series or off-shoot it wouldn't be regarded as badly, but compared to Dead Space 1 & 2 it was BAD. Like Mass Effect Andromeda, not necessarily a bad game if it wasn't Mass Effect, but compared to the Trilogy, it was BAD.

Tried to play it through recently…gave up half way. Doesn’t nail action well and abandoned the suspense horror at atmosphere of the original games. Basically misses all targets….result is a completely forgettable game.

It absolutely is. Lost its identity. But I could have maybe gotten on board with the Prometheus Uncharted thing if it weren’t for the coop and the bullshit micro t weapons system. Ruined it.

It wasn't scary. There, I said it. And then you add in a friend and it's really really not scary. Not to mention, some of the 'wave' rooms were just annoying and frustrating to get through. I didn't enjoy my time playing this game, and I probably won't now.

its not a bad game, but it wasnt .. horror at all. and there was a really weird love triangle thing going on.

It was bad. EA tried to make it action.

Ah the classic EA paid propaganda roles out.

Dead Space 3 is a solid 8 for me.

When you're in space going from space ship to space ship with Zero G sections in between it is top tier Dead Space.
And i liked mixing and matching different secondary and primary weapon fire.

But when you get to the planet...it gets bland for a bit until you go into alien architecture at the end. The snow just made everthing look so bland.

I think it's time for a trilogy replay...

Compared to One it absolutely is.

Then why did the franchise come to a halt after that? Oh yeah, it was terrible. 4/10 tbh.

Awful. I don’t think I ever finished it. Dead space 1 is one of my favorite games. Top 5 all time probably. Setting the bar so high makes me less forgiving to average or subpar games from them. It makes the disappointment that much more potent. If you make average games all of the time I’m more forgiving and can enjoy it more. That’s not very fair but it is what it is.

I have the digital version on my PS3 & I only played about 3 hours of it.

I didn't mind Dead Space 3 it wasn't as good as 1 or 2 I never did the campaign co-op but I still enjoyed it I would still take it over RE5 and RE6 any day.

Sadly It wasn't a survival horror game anymore.

I literally beat this game just a few months ago with a friend. The coop dynamic had a few cool ideas. However, it was overall a poor experience. Bad story. Not scary. Enemies weren't interesting. And it had so many copy and pasted assets. It isn't what a dead space game should be at all.

I wasn't disappointed at all, great game imo.

I never played 3. Played the first two but didn't like them, didn't finish them either. I plan on giving them another go and I'll play 3 as well

pointless love triangle that actually undid a lot of the good part of two
shitty micro transaction
yup its trash

its not bad it just isnt dead space. plus it has micros........ fuck that

Lol no it was as bad as I remember. Practically ruined the franchise. So bad it was that I can't even look at or touch the game if I came across a physical copy.

I don't need to read this article to say "YES. Yes it was."

Couldn't disagree more after having also played it recently, if the co-op gameplay had been as fine-tuned as say RE5 than it would be a much better experience instead of the broken mess it ended up being.

Yes it is. I recently “tried” to replay it. Right after dead space 1&2 … I couldn’t beat it out of lack of tolerance

I enjoyed it. It wasn't as good as 1 or 2, but it was still a good solo romp. It could've been way better, but it could've been much worse. The gameplay was still fun.

I liked it. It was fun.

I never actually played it. I think I heard too many bad things about it - moving in a more action orientated direction took away a lot of the suspense it seems, and it was this that put me off, so I didn't ever play it.

Yes it is, it's an absolute master class in how to destroy a franchise. I played trough the series in it's entirety a few years back in Dead Space 3 was an absolute chore to play trough. I came so close to just wiping the game from the One X..but I kept going. Felt like you played "Horde-mode" janked up to 11. No horror, just stupid brainless action and no soul in this game.

The graphics were nice, but that' about ut.

Absolute trash.

Dead space 3 was !@#$ awesome. And it had coop.

Tell me again how the multiplatform strategy was supposed to fix everything. Look at your results and compare them to Nintendo, which keeps thriving with exclusives. Your loyal fans are gone. And let’s not forget the pile of IPs you purchased only to let them rot.

The worst thing is this is down from last years numbers/expectations which was down from the previous years numbers/expectations. You think about how long “down” has been a consistent part of the communication and you realize those subscriptions are what’s holding that boat together. The price cut of gamespass is still a price raise in a string of price raises. They are trying to use players to offset the missing revenue. Now call of duty is out of gamespass, which is literally WHY they bought the company. To draw people to the subscription. They realized they missed a boatload of money and that wasn’t sustainable. Now you pay for it like you would have if they never bought the company… so why buy the company? Mind you those billions still need to be paid back. Yeah it gives you a chance to say we make the biggest FPS… but the internal conversations must be brutal at high level on topics that really matter. Like revenue. Profitability. And ROI for the shopping spree.

Is this like the 10th quarter in a row they're down 33% on hardware how is that even mathematically possible. You would think their mediocrity would Plateau