This review contains Dead Space 3 story spoilers. Consider yourself warned: MEGA SPOILERS AHEAD.
Dead Space 3 Awakened grafts a grisly tale of Marker-induced dementia onto the end of the original Dead Space 3 experience, and in three brief chapters did more to unsettle me than the entire game managed. Disturbing, creepy, and entertaining, it’s great fun – though Awakened’s satisfying but brief story gets a bit silly and serves as a vivid reminder of the ho-humness that preceded it.
If you finished the main game and watched the credits roll to the end, you know that Isaac Clarke is alive. Awakened picks up the story as Isaac and co-op sidekick John Carver attempt to figure out how they actually survived. That’s appropriate, because I seriously wanted to know the same thing. After all, in the finale, they were caught in a free-fall through the heart of a cataclysmic atmospheric storm kickstarted by a moon-sized Necromorph collapsing into the planet. The survival rate for that is estimated at around zero.
