Developer : Electronic Arts
Release date : February 8, 2013
Synopsis :
Dead Space 3 is a 2013 survival horror action video game that was developed by Visceral Games and published by Electronic Arts for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. It is the third-and-final main entry in the Dead Space series. The game’s story follows player-character Isaac Clarke and his allies as they explore the frozen planet Tau Volantis to discover the origins of the growing threat from their enemies the Necromorphs. Players control Isaac and explore the environment, solve puzzles, and find resources while fighting Necromorphs and hostile humans called Unitologists. The game supports online cooperative, multiplayer sessions in which a second player takes the role of new character John Carver.
Production of the game began in 2011 after the release of Dead Space 2; the sequel was initially planned as a horror-focused experience but demands from Electronic Arts resulted in the introduction of action elements, the de-emphasis of horror themes, and the introduction of microtransactions. The gameplay was adjusted based on the new setting, and the story was written to close out the series and explain the remaining mysteries of the Necromorphs. Composers Jason Graves and James Hannigan wrote the game’s score. A downloadable content (DLC) episode subtitled Awakened was released in March 2013; it was developed with more focus on horror elements.
Dead Space 3 was promoted with additional media, including a graphic novel called Dead Space: Liberation. Critics gave the game a generally positive reception, praising to its atmosphere and gameplay, but critics and players questioning its shift towards action. Awakened gained a mixed reception; its plot holes and shortness were criticized. Dead Space 3 peaked high in sales charts but sold fewer copies than the publisher had expected so plans for a sequel were abandoned, the development team was disbanded, and Visceral Games closed in 2017. The series remained dormant until a remake of the first Dead Space game was announced in 2021.
In the opening sequence, set two centuries before the main story, a military team retrieves an artifact called the Codex; the team’s commander kills his remaining subordinate, erases data on the Codex, and commits suicide. In the present, Isaac is hiding in a colony on Earth’s moon when Carver and Norton forcibly recruit him to help them find Ellie, escaping a Necromorph outbreak triggered by Danik and the Circle. Ellie’s location is traced to Tau Volantis, which is assumed to be the Marker home world and is orbited by a moon. Isaac, Carver, Norton, Santos, and Buckell travel to Tau Volantis’s moon; they rescue Ellie and investigate the orbiting derelict ship Terra Nova, discovering evidence of past research on the Necromorphs and the recurring phrase “Turn it off”. They crash-land on Tau Volantis, and Isaac and Carver separate from the rest of the crew. Isaac and Carver find Buckell shortly before he dies from his wounds and hypothermia. After reuniting, the survivors set off in search of a key called “Rosetta”; they are pursued by Danik and the Circle, who followed them to Tau Volantis. Norton betrays the group to the Circle, hoping to safely return to Earth with Ellie, but Danik betrays Norton but is killed by Isaac in self-defense. Santos later dies during another Necromorph attack.
“Rosetta” is revealed to be a cryogenically frozen alien who is native to Tau Volantis, whose population was another victim of the Necromorph infection. Isaac experiences a vision that reveals the Markers influence evolution and perpetuate the Necromorph life cycle. As a last resort before being overwhelmed, the aliens created a machine that sent the planet’s moon−in reality a giant, intelligent Necromorph hivemind−into hibernation by freezing the entire planet; the message “Turn it off” came from the Markers so the moon can awaken and summon more of their species to consume all life in the universe. “Rosetta” was used by Tau Volantis’ first research expedition to create the Codex, a DNA key that can control the machine. Danik captures Ellie and threatens to kill her, forcing Isaac and Carver to give him the Codex in exchange for Ellie. Danik deactivates the machine, reviving the moon and triggering Convergence—the absorption of all organic matter on Tau Volantis to empower the moon. Danik dies in the resulting destruction. After sending Ellie away, Isaac and Carver reach the machine and reactivate it, which kills the moon and apparently them. With the Marker signal gone, a saddened Ellie returns to Earth.
In Awakened, the still-living Isaac and Carver try to escape Tau Volantis, facing more Necromorphs and suffering from severe hallucinations. Through one of these, Isaac learns the other moons were awoken and are searching for Earth. Isaac and Carver use a Circle shuttle to reach the Terra Nova to find a lightspeed drive and warn Earth, and they confront a cult of insane Circle survivors. The moons invade Isaac’s mind and reveal to him they always knew Earth’s location, and were stalling him and Carver. After killing the cultists, Isaac and Carver return to Earth on the shuttle but find it under attack by the moons. They crash into an approaching moon, leaving their fates unknown.
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