The storyline, alongside building upon and expanding the series lore, focused on Isaac's deteriorating mental state, with classic nursery rhymes being used as motifs playing into the narrative and Isaac's visions. Pre-production began in 2008, immediately following the release of the original Dead Space. The game included a competitive multiplayer, with the Sprawl's security forces fighting teams of Necromorphs. Gameplay features Isaac exploring a series of levels, solving puzzles to progress, and finding resources while fighting off Necromorphs. The second mainline entry in the Dead Space series, set on the Titan-based Sprawl space station, the story follows series protagonist Isaac Clarke as he fights against both an outbreak of the monstrous Necromorphs and debilitating mental illness induced by the alien Markers. It was released for PlayStation 3, Windows, and Xbox 360 in January. That game was so much fun in multiplayer and I am still sad we never got a sequel.Dead Space 2 is a 2011 survival horror game developed by Visceral Games and published by Electronic Arts. And one of my favourite multiplayer modes of last-gen was Space Marine.

For example, Dead Space 2 or The Last of Us where multiplayer clearly wasn't the focus but they offered some unique gameplay and mechanics. But even here we had some interesting takes and spins on the genre because they tried to experiment with their settings and what is possible. Many single-player focused shooters for example. There were far more unnecessary multiplayer-modes last gen. We should be thankful for games that try. There weren't and aren't many melee-focused multiplayer-games.

I don't see how 'no one wanted to play' this game.Īnd even the multiplayer was good and pretty unique. Also the best graphics of last-gen, even a tad better than God of War 3. The combat system was arguably the best of the old-school God of Wars and it featured good puzzles, great level design that delivered a sense of adventure and journey like God of War 2 did and fantastic boss fights. The rest of the game was still absolutely great. It was especially uninteresting after the perfect finale that God of War 3 was. Click to shrink.The only 'bad' thing about God of War: Ascension was the story which was kinda unnecessary and felt too disconnected to the rest of the saga.

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