
I know that I'm going to be pushed into a room and some combination of fast and slow-moving monsters are going to come at me. I'm on rails, and while the game is great at shaking the camera and making me feel like I'm the person in the game, I don't experience a sense of worry like the characters do.

Whereas the Dead Space franchise is traditionally about scaring you, that doesn't really happen here. My problem with Dead Space Extraction is its pacing. All of this is touched on with an interesting story and a really talented cast of voices. Why people are acting cagey, if they're going crazy, and so on. You bounce around between a few different perspectives in the game, but this actually gives you more access to what the characters are going through and the chance to see them in different lights. Once again, developer Visceral Games has delivered a tale that players can connect with. Those individual parts make up Dead Space Extraction's biggest draw - its story. Even though this game plays differently from the major Dead Space games, it feels, sounds and looks like the universe fans are used to. You'll blow bad guys away with the Plasma Cutter and tear them apart with the Ripper's spinning saw blade, but you'll also grab items with telekinesis, freeze bad guys with stasis and take on a neat hacking mini-game. You could get most of that out of a lot of games, but what Extraction packs is the Dead Space staples fans know. Extraction engages you further by giving you a wide variety of weapons with alternative firing modes and implementing a mini-game reload system that rewards you for being quick on the trigger. This is inherently fun, and Dead Space's monstrous Necromorphs with their disgusting growths make for good targets. The general gist of the gameplay is that you move the reticle on the screen and blow away whatever it's covering. After shooting the ghouls this way, I couldn't go back to the functional but slower DualShock scheme. The Move controls are quick, easy and responsive. You can use a traditional controller to play Dead Space Extraction, but the game is designed to be played with the PlayStation Move.

Lopping off those limbs comes down to you and your aiming skills.
