- Universal Ammo? Checked
- Generic cover based shootan? Checked
- Convert to Gears of Wars? Checked
- Plasma Cutter cant rotate??? F*CKING CHECKED

Thank you EA for killing this franchise because you want to plug the financial disaster hole called TORtanic

- Universal Ammo? Checked
- Generic cover based shootan? Checked
- Convert to Gears of Wars? Checked
- Plasma Cutter cant rotate??? F*CKING CHECKED

Thank you EA for killing this franchise because you want to plug the financial disaster hole called TORtanic

geez...does no one view the video i posted??

the co-op is an ALTERNATE GAMEPLAY EXPERIENCE.

geez...does no one view the video i posted??

the co-op is an ALTERNATE GAMEPLAY EXPERIENCE.

geez...does no one view the video i posted??

the co-op is an ALTERNATE GAMEPLAY EXPERIENCE.

Maybe I should make a thread about The Fall of EA and "DLCs". That would welcome a lot of haters.

now where did this come from? I have something in my mind though, something more towards releasing DLC and player expereince.

btw, i found this today:
http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/06/14/why-do-people-hate-ea

I really love the way you create and manage threads, TS.

Looks really beautiful and high definition.

I feel co-op isn't really to create experience. Its just so that people buy 2 copies of it just to play together lol.

Survival horror with co-op usually ain't scary anymore. COZ YOU CAN HAS A FWEN.
I bet its gonna be Origin only, so I'm proud to pirate it later. Lol.

Yeap, IGN licking EA butt again. I wonder how 2K, Rockstar, Square Enix, Paradox and so on survive without ruining every franchise to a generic cover shooter, having tonnes of expensive DLCs, make money sink free to play games ($65 virtual car, anyone?), made shitty Origin and lastly, saying cheap sales is making your IP cheap.

Isnt it the same site that says that we should not be entitled gamers? I'll be entitled as much as i want because i bought a product and the product should be as enjoyable as it should be. Not the generic boring shooter that i am getting from EA games.

Why dont i hate Activision Blizzard, as much as EA? Because Activision Blizzard do not destroy their franchise as bad as EA did.
Why dont i hate Ubisoft? Because they still have the balls to come out with something fairly interesting, ie: Watch Dogs,  the whole Assasin's Creed, Driver, Far Cry, without making all of them a boring generic shooter.
Why dont i hate Valve? Because they make stuff that really works 99.9% of the time, like Steam and really polished, well supported games.
Why dont i hate 2K? Because they value their own IP, without making terrible annual iterations or turn them into free to play zombies.

No doubt hating Diablo 3 is the hate flavour of the month, but i think EA is still getting the most hate because of their lovely business practise that do not promote brand loyalty. Making sweeping changes to your game's sequels will not help you to keep your customers loyal to your brand.

No way i am getting Dead Space 3 in anyway, it doesnt even look like the first 2 games.

err.. guys...

just wondering.. should i play the Dead Space 1 & 2 first prior to playing the latest installment (when it being release)

For better experience and understanding, yes you should and play in the dark, alone. 

been there, done that

you mean at the end? 

For better experience and understanding, yes you should and play in the dark, alone. 

yeah, even though i knew it's coming  

i played 1 in dark and alone, it gives me chill and fantastic experience all the way
i played 2 in dark and alone, it was not that scary, but more action pack
i have doubts with 3, especially coop style

it's ruined!!
the scary dead space is no more!

Dead Space 3 Is Way Better With A Friend, Surprisingly

The answering machine goes off. It's Ellie, trying to get a hold of Isaac Clarke. He doesn't answer. He's standing in a disheveled apartment located on a lunar colony, but it's not your typical bachelor pad type mess. It's dark, it's grimy, it's gross—it looks as if this is a cave, a personal hell which he has retreated to perhaps. As you muse over this, sergeant John Carver—the character your co-op buddies will play—bursts into your apartment, demanding to know if in fact you are the famous Isaac Clarke.
Carver and his acquaintance Robert Norton need your help in Dead Space 3. Guess what, the predicament involves a damsel in distress (Ellie, from the previous games) and it involves Markers—which is to say, it probably involves the horrific, reanimated corpses of the dead (otherwise known as necromorphs.) Great!

Isaac wants nothing to do with Markers after the events of the first two games, but this involves Ellie, so he begrudgingly agrees to help. Naturally things have to get even crazier at this point, so this is where the overzealous Unitologists—the people who have formed a religion around the Markers—come in.

Guns blazing, the Unitologists set out to look for you. The Unitologists are out to kill you, wouldn't you know it.

This is how the game sets up one of the initial levels in Dead Space 3, which I experienced earlier this month. It's also where I discovered rolling and taking cover. Like most well-implemented rolling mechanics, it's a joy to move across levels entirely through rolling, but I can't say I ever used cover again outside this initial chapter in the ~3 hours that I played Dead Space 3.

My first time going through, I didn't feel there was much that was notable Chapter 1 beyond the lunar colony having a similar look and feel to that of Mass Effect's cities. You'll also come face to face with the man that I assume is the leader of the Unitologists, a silver-tongued charismatic fellow that tells you all about his sinister plot with the Markers. He intends this information to be the last thing you experience before death.

He doesn't manage to actually kill you, of course; you narrowly get away.

Ellie? Eh, I didn't really care. But she's there, if that interests you!
But this continues the larger narrative in Dead Space, which addresses the role of the Markers and necromorphs in society—and, admittedly, was much of the reason that I kept going forward in the preview. Ellie? Eh, I didn't really care. But she's there, if that interests you!

I was new to Dead Space, you see—there wasn't much about the previous games that captured my interest. I'd initially avoided Dead Space because I'm not much for scary or tense games. When it was clear that I was going to preview Dead Space 3 I tried looking up the science of the jump scare—which I heard Dead Space was full of—to try to soften the blow. If fear stems from the unknown, then knowledge helps, right?

Haha, yeah okay, like Wikipedia pages were about to lessen the terror of WELL TIMED LOUD SOUNDS and NECROMORPH BURSTING INTO THE FRAME UNEXPECTEDLY.

Making things 'worse,' Dead Space 3 likes to give put you in tight spaces without too much room to maneuver. Even if you see the necromorphs ahead of time, it's likely you'll often find yourself nervously backpeddling while trying to reload, necromorph viciously trying to swipe at you. Hopefully you don't get backed into a corner! This is where rolling comes in handy.

Personally, I found myself frustrated at the difficulty on normal, especially later in the preview when juggling one of the game's 'puzzles' (if you would even call them that) with necromorph waves. I died more than I felt I should have.

But with a buddy? Things felt much smoother, much more fun—though admittedly I felt jealous that Carver had the cooler black and red suit. Grr. Ah well, it's probably appropriate. It seems that you and Carver will have a complicated relationship thanks to how harsh Carver is. When you apologize for something, he angrily tells you to try harder next time for instance.

Anyway, there is a bit less tension when you know a friend will have your back with a pesky necromorph, and it wasn't uncommon to double-team enemies. One person suspends the necromorph, and the other rips it apart sort of deal. Co-op presents a wonderful opportunity for more nuanced tactics, and Dead Space 3 isn't any less engaging when you cut some of the anxiety out. The game remains just as chunky and visceral as it has in the past.

It was through co-op that I also learned how much Dead Space 3 rewards exploration. My buddy liked to go off and meticulously search through the levels for artifacts. Sometimes, this will mean taking a closer look at a seemingly empty room that's right along the way. Sometimes, it'll mean going deep into space while navigating outside of a ship. Sometimes, it'll mean shooting down something in the background that doesn't seem as if it holds anything—like maybe a deer head. I was impressed.


Not all the things you'll find are artifacts. Some of it will be materials for crafting. New to Dead Space 3 are moddable weapons, allowing you to have tools with more than one function. You have the ability to modify a weapon's upper tool, lower tool, frame, tip and attachments, allowing for variances in damage, reload, clip size, shooting speed, as well as bullet effect (exploding rounds, for instance.)

Isaac is an engineer, right? He's smart and uses his intellect to solve problems, yes? Crafting is justifiable by the story, then. While I didn't find too much to tinker with, my co-op buddy seemed to find all sorts of materials and his weapon looked intimidating, beastly and effective.

Isaac is an engineer, right? He's smart and uses his intellect to solve problems, yes?
Also included are side-missions and optional objectives. Toward the end of my preview, for instance, I had a choice between two locations depending on which mission I wanted to take up. Unfortunately the demo ended right there, but it's obvious that Dead Space 3 is incorporating modern design elements that all games have to have nowadays like Choice and Customization and Social Play.

I swear that I find it difficult to tell if these things actually improve an experience rather than giving us stuff to cross off a universal games checklist. However, I can concretely say that Dead Space 3 felt much better with a friend than it did playing alone, though I was sad to see little of Carver's supposed compelling storyline. Alas!

Dead Space 3 releases on February 5th in North America, and February 8th in Europe.

Dead Space 3 includes micro-transactions as part of its weapon crafting system, Eurogamer can reveal.

We spotted mention of "downloadable content" during a recent hands-on play session with the game. The message pops up when you don't have enough resources to piece together the beefy new weapon you're after.

It states: "Cannot craft. Additional resources required."

These resources (materials, scrap parts and the like) can be picked up by the player, picked up by scavenger bots you send out, or alternatively bought through a quick purchase from the in-game store.

"You can buy resources with real money, but scavenger bots can also give you the currency that you can use on the marketplace," Dead Space 3 associate producer Yara Khoury explained to Eurogamer. "So you don't have to spend [real world] dollars."

Khoury was unable to say how much the micro-transactions would cost, but she referred to several different packs of in-game currency being available, priced varying amounts.

But even with a bank balance full of money, developer Visceral Games has made sure you can't boost your way to the best weapons at the very beginning of the game.

"No you can't!" Khoury replied at the suggestion I'd be able to splurge my money as soon as possible in exchange for the game's biggest gun. "There are a lot of weapon parts that are only available to buy later in the game. Unless you're playing through it again [on New Game Plus]."

Dead Space 3 is the first game in the series to include micro-transactions. The payment system popped up last year in fellow EA-published title Mass Effect 3, too, allowing you to quickly buy reinforcement packs for the game's multiplayer portion. Ubisoft-published Assassin's Creed 3 included a similar system for that game's multiplayer.

Visceral Games admits Dead Space 3 for PC will be a straight port

Dead Space 3 for PC will be a meat and potatoes port of its console equivalents, it has been confirmed. According to games.on.net, that means there will be no DirectX 11 support and no fancier textures, so if you were hoping to push your top-of-the-line gaming PC to its limits with a copy of Dead Space 3, well then… you probably can’t.

The news follows reports yesterday that EA will introduce optional microtransactions in the Dead Space 3 campaign, meaning that you’ll be able to buy in-game resources for weapons upgrades with real world money.

Source: Pcgamer

so the spec will be like DS2? it is a good news, since they did a good job for optimize the game graphic from DS2. it is  very well done

Source: Pcgamer

my hope for a decent DA3 went out the windows liao if DS3 is this shitty

so you can play on your machine? 

Amazon offers $20 credit on select EA pre-orders including Dead Space 3, Crysis 3

We've seen the Amazon $20 pre-order credit deal pop up a bit in recent times, and here it is again on four upcoming Electronic Arts games. If you pre-order one of Dead Space 3, SimCity, Crysis 3, or Army of Two: The Devil's Cartel, you get a code for $20 credit towards future purchases. Yes, that credit's tied to Amazon, regardless it ain't to be sniffed at.

There are other pre-order bonuses tied to some of these games, such as the Limited Edition goodies and Amazon-exclusive Enervator gun for Dead Space 3. The SimCity pre-order gets you access to its Limited Edition as well as the beta, which runs this weekend. Crysis 3 bundles in the original Crysis, and Amazon's exclusive is the Brawler Pack.

Dead Space 3's PC port will not have DirectX 11 support or HD textures, according to reports, to which developer Visceral Games says, so what?

"We continue to evolve our games as we develop them, but we certainly don't target PC as something that's going to be significantly different," executive producer Steve Papoutsis said in an interview with Shack News. [/b]"We aren't trying to create disparity in the experience that our gamers enjoy; we want to make sure everyone's having that same experience."[/b]

In the interview, Papoutsis takes a very literal stance on consistency across platforms. Where as platform owners think of consistency as "the best my platform can offer," Papoutsis interprets it as "an identical experience across platforms, even if that means one performing below its potential" (my words, not his).

Remember when EA said Dead Space 2 wouldn't receive DLC on PC (so much for consistency), and how they changed their tune after PC owners spoke up? Make some noise and maybe EA and Visceral will give Dead Space 3 all the perks expected of PC ports in a post-Sleeping Dogs and Max Payne 3 world.

"The fact that we're allowing you to control the game with a mouse and keyboard immediately makes the game feel different," Papoutsis said, adding "We seem a little bit discredited for the amount of effort that goes into it, quite honestly."

Mouse and keyboard controls? Gee, thanks!

Dear pc owners,
http://www.destructoid.com/dead-space-3-pc...cy-243420.phtml
Enjoy your top quality console port EA lovers

"The fact that we're allowing you to control the game with a mouse and keyboard immediately makes the game feel different," Papoutsis said, adding "We seem a little bit discredited for the amount of effort that goes into it, quite honestly."

Source: Joystiq

To those who are planning to buy the game, do preorder from Amazon as you will get a bonus $20 credit for future use.

Dear pc owners,
http://www.destructoid.com/dead-space-3-pc...cy-243420.phtml
Enjoy your top quality console port EA lovers

The Dead Space 3 story may get extended through DLC released in a few weeks' time. That's what a hint by game producer Steve Papoutsis seems to suggest, anyway. Papoutsis closed off a blog post today with a vague drop of a "top secret additional story."

"As you can see, we have a lot planned for you in DS3," Papoutsis wrote. "And the team is hard at work on a top secret additional story that will be coming in a few weeks. We're not saying much, yet - but think 'disturbing' to get your imaginations going."

Papoutsis also revealed there are four modes unlocked by beating the game once, namely New Game+, Classic Mode, Pure Survival Mode, and the return of Hardcore Mode, albeit with a new twist. New Game+ is as it sounds, the mode carrying over your upgrades and weaponry from the completed save. Classic Mode is single-player only, removes crafting, and employs 'classic' aiming to resemble the original Dead Space. Whereas Pure Survival is all about resource management; enemies are the only things that drop any goodies, and there are no ammo, health or weapon packs.

Hardcore mode drops the three-saves-and-out of Dead Space 2, and replaces it with something that sounds far more evil. This time, you only have one life... yup, you read that right. And don't think it's something you can just avoid by going back to a previous save; as PlayStation Lifestyle details, once you die the game simply returns you to the start, end of. Evil. If we ever complete it, there better be a reward of free unlimited rainbows.

Dead Space 3 producer teases additional story content in 'a few weeks' time


Source: Joystiq

Dead Space 3 Pay-2-Win Cash Shop Items Listed, Priced

Hey, remember that microtransaction shop that Visceral Games was talking about for Dead Space 3? Well, a full listing of the items have become available for public viewing, giving gamers an idea of what they can expect from the cash shop in the upcoming action-shooter title, Dead Space 3.

Destructoid's Jim Sterling has the rundown, which includes the following:

· Bot Capacity Upgrade $4.99
· Bot Personality Pack $4.99
· First Contact Pack Free
· Marauder Pack $4.99
· Sharpshooter Pack $4.99
· Tundra Recon Pack $4.99
· Witness the Truth Pack $4.99
· Bot Accelerator $4.99
· Epic Weapon & Resource Pack $2.99
· Online Pass $9.99
· Ultra Weapon & Resource Pack $1.99
· Resource Pack $0.99

So the resource packs go for about a $1 each, which means that anytime you start a new game or need an extra boost in general resources EA will take a dollar out of your pocket.

The online pass, priced at $9.99 should come as no surprise to anyone. I mean, Riccitiello and Moore need those new diamond studded golf clubs from Callaway, right? We can't have them using anything from someone cheap like Bridgestone... much less, anything without diamond-studded grips.

The original reason that the microtransaction cash shop was tossed into Dead Space 3 was to help mobile gamers buy what they needed so they could pay-2-win in a retail game. I mean, you can't obviously spend actual time to enjoy the game, that would defeat the purpose of playing to have and enjoy the grind and the experience. It's all about completion these days.

What's more is that all of the above items will be day-one DLC, so you'll be paying to unlock this stuff right out of the gate if you're into that sort of thing. The reason day-one DLC is here to stay is because so many of you were willing to throw money at EA for the day-one DLC for Mass Effect 3 called “From Ashes”, where EA's COO Peter Moore was proud that they were able to get gamers to pay MORE than the standard $60, turning it into additional profit as a day one sale.

If you're all about helping EA hit those profit margins and continue on with the day-one DLC, on-disc DLC and microtransaction cash shops bundled in with $60 retail games, feel free to pick up a copy of Dead Space 3 when it launches for Xbox 360, PS3 and PC next week. Oh yeah, and remember, you have to spend like crazy because if EA doesn't sell five million copies, Dead Space as a brand goes bust.

f*ck ea.. im gonna help seed pirate version of this game on torrent

f*ck ea.. im gonna help seed pirate version of this game on torrent

Rumors said there will be a DLC that extends the ending of the game ala ME3 style.

EA: You will play pay up to get the full ending and you will like it, biatch!

PS: It's arguable whether or not his is a rumor since the info is clearly on 1 of the article which was then edited to remove the info by EA's request.

i dont get the online pass thing for 9.99.. need to pay to play online?

i dont get the online pass thing for 9.99.. need to pay to play online?

If you bought the game new, it should come with an online pass.

ahhh i see..so its a console thingy la.. to make money incase ppl sell their disc

Dead Space 3 Dev: The Last Thing We Think About is Money

Hey guys wanna hear a joke?
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/...-About-is-Money