These soldiers indicate that you can take an alternative route where you'll explore more of Carver's dementia and his backstory. This makes for a very interesting dynamic in co-operative play as Carver's dementia plays tricks on his mind, and in certain areas that you only have access to in the co-operative campaign players will have wildly different experiences to deal with.Īs Carver is dealing with the loss of his family he keeps seeing toy soldiers where Isaac sees nothing.

While we weren't allowed to sample the work bench in this demo, there is a lot of potential with this system, and we were shown a small drone you can send out to collect resources and scavenge parts so you won't have to check every container for materials to improve your weapons.įans of Dead Space will be aware of what dementia can do to your character, and while Isaac Clarke appears to have moved past his issues, Sergeant John Carver, is very much affected by his trauma. In co-operative play this allows for more specialisation, while if you play singleplayer you can construct a weapon capable of both crowdcontrol and dismemberment for instance. With the new weapons systems that allows for customisation and combinations of weapons, each player will be able to tailor their arsenal more to their style of play.

The Dead Space mechanics lend themselves very well to co-operative gameplay - one player can focus using stasis and telekinesis, while the other can cut off limbs and finish them off. Easily one of my least favourite necromorphs with a distinct Asian horror feel to them as these corpses that were fused with their stasis modules when they turned move very quickly and utter horrific screeching sounds. At least that should be one of the objectives of the team as they try and adapt the concept to a co-operative experience.īut it wasn't just that I wanted my partner to be a meat shield of sorts, it was also the nature of the enemies we were about to encounter. I'm sure this dynamic of players wanting to walk behind their co-op partner to give them a little extra time to react to threats, will be there in most every game of Dead Space 3 co-op online. At some level I was telling my partner to walk first and that I would hang back a little. I pulled back a little instinctively, having seen the singleplayer I knew where they would jump out at me. When playing the co-operative part of the demo the developers chuckled at my hesitation walking towards points where I knew necromorphs would spawn.

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