Meanwhile, you can play Extraction with a standard wireless controller, but you will be at a disadvantage since the thumb stick can’t match the Move’s split-second response time. Make sure that all of the necromorphs are dead before they get too close, and you won’t have to do too much wild flailing to fend them off. A two-handed configuration is ideal – the directional buttons on the Navigation controller make it easier to scroll through weapons – but that’s the only significant difference between the two schemes and the game is fully functional if you’ve only got the wand.Įxtraction does fall into some of familiar stick-waggling motion control traps, although that’s hardly unique to the Move. That’s true both with and without the supplementary Navigation controller. You’ve got far more options than you do in the average rail shooter and the experience is deep enough to be worthy of the Dead Space label. The Move sensor is extremely accurate and the game makes excellent use of the controller’s convenient array of buttons.
Even with the PS3’s additional processing power, Extraction looks like a Wii game, and while I can’t say I blame the developers – they are giving this away for free – it’s still a tad disappointing.įortunately, the mediocre visuals are easy to overlook because Dead Space: Extraction otherwise plays extraordinarily well.
Graphically, that’s not exactly a compliment. Extraction has survived the transition to the PS3, and the new version is a competent and faithful port of the original. None of that is new, however, so let’s turn to the hardware.
The plot twists are eminently predictable, and it’s not surprising when the antagonist starts stabbing people in the back. Most of the characters are pulled straight from the book of cliché and you can tell which ones are good and which are evil simply by listening to the various tones of voice. While the plot adds some depth to the Dead Space universe, it doesn’t offer much in the way of narrative excitement.
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