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In the interest of finishing the Dead Space series, I finally got around to playing Dead Space 3. (Don't worry, EA isn't getting a cent out of it.) I'm finding that while it isn't actually that bad, it's...well, it's just Call of Duty: Space Ops at this point. The very first enemies were almost literally Nazi Zombies™ from the same franchise, and the entire opening level made me nostalgic for the admittedly very well done original Dead Space intoductory sequence. Additionally, gone are any survival horror elements. I have yet to run out of ammo or medkits yet; actually, the only thing I've run out of so far has been inventory space, and multiple times. In fact, there are only two parts I have legitimately enjoyed so far, and both of them only because they made the engineer in me dance happily on his feet:

1. Zooming around in zero-G outside the four spaceships
   
2. Being able to manufacture my own weapons
   

It saddens me that there is nothing even remotely survival horror-y on this list. At least Dead Space 2 tried, but at this point...well, it's a little difficult to be afraid of anything when I literally made myself an assault rifle with a masterkey in the first half hour. Even most of the jump scares fail to get me at this point because I can fill them full of generic brand buckshot at a moment's notice. Furthermore, the fact that every weapon uses the same ammunition means that the grenade launcher I created is actually more efficient than any of the more "intelligent" ways of killing enemies (such as the game's own trademark dismembering mechanic), because as long as I hit within a certain range of my target it guarantees a 1:1 shot:kill ratio. Not that it matters - with ammo being as plentiful as it is, I haven't really suffered for not taking full advantage of that ruthless efficiency.

This is more or less what I was expecting, but I'd be lying if I said I hadn't hoped to be proven wrong.