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Dead Space 3 brings Isaac Clarke and merciless soldier, John Carver, on a journey across space to discover the source of the Necromorph outbreak. Crash-landed on the frozen planet of Tau Volantis, the pair must comb the harsh environment for raw materials and scavenged parts. Isaac will then put his engineering skills to the ultimate test to create and customize weapons and survival tools. The ice planet holds the key to ending the Necromorph plague forever, but first the team must overcome avalanches, treacherous ice-climbs, and the violent wilderness.

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Scores by platform

PC

Critic 7.7 (19 critics) · Gamer 7.3

7.5

PlayStation 3

Critic 7.8 (29 critics) · Gamer 9.0

8.2

Xbox 360

Critic 7.8 (30 critics) · Gamer 9.4

8.3

Critic reviews

  • PC Gamer

    PC Gamer · Feb 27, 2013

    8.0
    This is perhaps the inevitable reality of creating a searing, stylish new IP – that two sequels down the line, the need to maximise appeal has turned everything great about that game into the still-beating heart of a commercial machine augmented with features, an appealing hero, and explosive moments. Dead Space 3 is still good, and it's still Dead Space. It's just lots of other things as well.
  • Game Front

    Phil Hornshaw · Feb 22, 2013

    7.5
    It’s worth noting that Visceral has paid attention to the needs of PC players this time out, and that Dead Space 3 is the best PC version to come out of the series, period. That’s a big improvement over where things started with Dead Space, and a welcome change. Sure, it’d be nice to see the kind of PC support title such as Battlefield 3 and Crysis 3 are getting, but Dead Space 3 is more than a straight port and still quite a bit of fun.

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Gamer reviews

  • David Poirier

    Feb 3, 2021 · PS3

    8.7

    I really liked this game. It is an action-packed survival horror game. I found it very hard so I played it on the casual difficulty. I just didn’t have enough health and there were too many enemies at once so that’s why I played it on the easiest difficulty. It actually gave me a break and I could get past these very hard parts of the game. I even died many times on the casual difficulty. The music is very stressful when enemies come at you. I had some stress reactions to the number of enemies that come at you all the time and they just don’t give up even with their limbs severed they still crawl at you like crazy. You have a large selection of weapons you can build through the game, I suggest you experiment with that as much as you can. It will take more than one playthrough to get all the weapons, but there’s a game + available that gives you the option to carry what you had from your first playthrough into a new game. There’s a co-op part in the game. Playing co-op is, in my opinion, always fun to do. The controls in the game are good not too difficult to get used to. Third-person shooter view similar to the other entries in the series. It took me around 20 hours to beat the game and I didn’t do everything. I had it complete to around 85% as I didn’t need more to be satisfied. I recommend the game for the intense gamer who’s not afraid of stress.

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