Gabe's journey through The Sprawl is no walk in the way, although I doubt anyone thought it would be. This is a brutally gory and entirely oppressive survival horror title. The story part has taken a back seat to the action this time around, even if we do pick up one or two interesting tidbits that will hopefully make more sense further on in the series. During these two hours I relived the same action packed and atmospheric horror that made Dead Space 2 such a great game. I played through the expansion in just under two ours. From a personal standpoint, I feel a bit disappointed, and I would have liked to have been offered up a bit more new content than what I get from Severed. While it's a proven way of creating an expansion, it does feel a bit cheap to have to revisit the same areas over and over again. After a short trip to the mines we find ourselves in familiar surroundings as Visceral have almost exclusively recycled levels from Dead Space 2 for the expansion. Equipped with the same weapons and abilities as Isaac Clarke, Gabe Weller will fight his way through oceans of slime and bad attitude, and sever as many Necromorph limbs as he possibly can. Its impressive how well pictures, dialogues and sound work together to form a cinema-like atmosphere.

Severed chugs along at the same pace and with the same ingredients as the main adventure and Visceral have been careful not to make too many changes to the concept that has been so successful. Dead Space is great entertainments for adults, not only because of the amount of gore and horror, but also because of the enthralling story with some nice twists. If you've played Dead Space: Extraction you will no doubt already know Gabe Weller well.ĭead Space 2: Severed is the first downloadable episode to extend the Dead Space 2 and it's hard to see how it would disappoint anyone.

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