Dead Space™ 3

Item: Dead Space™ 3
Rating: 53
Author: VaporLens

Last updated: 2025-11-10

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Summary

Shifted genre towards action-shooter gameplay.
Designed around co-operative multiplayer experience.
Offers a deep weapon crafting system.
Lost its original survival horror identity.
Weak narrative with annoying character writing.
Suffers from significant technical and save bugs.

Emotions

Disappointment23%Frustration20%Satisfaction19%Enjoyment8%Excitement4%

Reviews (sample size): 1554
Helpful reviews: 58%
Unhelpful reviews: 34%
Protest reviews: 8%

53%
Helpful reviews with positive sentiment
47%
Helpful reviews with negative sentiment

Positive points: 2234
Negative points: 3111
Gameplay points: 751
Perf. points: 105
Rec. points: 555
Misc points: 344

Point	Description	Importance
Enjoyable Co-op & Core Gameplay Description Players overwhelmingly praise the game's fun and satisfying core gameplay, especially its gunplay and combat mechanics. The cooperative mode is highlighted as a primary source of enjoyment, significantly enhancing the experience and replayability when playing with friends. Importance 49%	Players overwhelmingly praise the game's fun and satisfying core gameplay, especially its gunplay and combat mechanics. The cooperative mode is highlighted as a primary source of enjoyment, significantly enhancing the experience and replayability when playing with friends.	49%
Deep Weapon Crafting System Description The innovative weapon crafting and customization system is a major highlight, allowing players immense freedom to create unique, powerful, and often 'overpowered' weapon combinations. This system encourages experimentation and adds significant depth to combat and character progression. Importance 38%	The innovative weapon crafting and customization system is a major highlight, allowing players immense freedom to create unique, powerful, and often 'overpowered' weapon combinations. This system encourages experimentation and adds significant depth to combat and character progression.	38%
Underrated & Aged Well Description Many reviewers feel the game is severely underrated and received undue criticism upon release, often believing it to be a good game in its own right. They note that the graphics, gameplay, and overall experience have aged remarkably well, making it enjoyable even years later. Importance 33%	Many reviewers feel the game is severely underrated and received undue criticism upon release, often believing it to be a good game in its own right. They note that the graphics, gameplay, and overall experience have aged remarkably well, making it enjoyable even years later.	33%
Balanced Action-Horror Atmosphere Description The game successfully blends action with horror, maintaining tense situations, jump scares, and an eerie atmosphere despite its increased focus on gunplay. The exquisite sound design and detailed environments significantly contribute to its immersive and frightening ambiance. Importance 20%	The game successfully blends action with horror, maintaining tense situations, jump scares, and an eerie atmosphere despite its increased focus on gunplay. The exquisite sound design and detailed environments significantly contribute to its immersive and frightening ambiance.	20%
Strong Visuals & Graphics Description The game's graphics and visual production quality are consistently praised for being impressive, beautiful, and having aged exceptionally well for its release era. Detailed environments, excellent cinematics, and effective art direction contribute to a visually stunning experience. Importance 20%	The game's graphics and visual production quality are consistently praised for being impressive, beautiful, and having aged exceptionally well for its release era. Detailed environments, excellent cinematics, and effective art direction contribute to a visually stunning experience.	20%
Engaging Story & Expanded Lore Description Reviewers appreciate the captivating and well-told story, which provides an epic conclusion to the series and deepens the overall lore, particularly regarding Necromorphs and Unitology. The 'Awakened' DLC is often cited as essential for a complete and enhanced narrative experience. Importance 19%	Reviewers appreciate the captivating and well-told story, which provides an epic conclusion to the series and deepens the overall lore, particularly regarding Necromorphs and Unitology. The 'Awakened' DLC is often cited as essential for a complete and enhanced narrative experience.	19%
Distinctive Carver Character Arc Description John Carver is highlighted as a well-developed and interesting secondary protagonist whose exclusive missions and unique hallucinations in co-op add significant dramatic weight and plot depth. His interactions with Isaac provide good character chemistry. Importance 6%	John Carver is highlighted as a well-developed and interesting secondary protagonist whose exclusive missions and unique hallucinations in co-op add significant dramatic weight and plot depth. His interactions with Isaac provide good character chemistry.	6%

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