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Dead Space: Extraction

Dead Space Extraction tells the untold story of the Aegis VII Colony through a handful of survivors battling to reach the orbiting USG Ishimura amidst a horrific infection and the initial invasion by a violent…

81 24 September 2009

Dead Space: Extraction is a shooter developed by Eurocom Entertainment Software, released 24 September 2009 on PlayStation 3 and Wii.

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What Dead Space: Extraction is

Dead Space: Extraction is a shooter game developed by Eurocom Entertainment Software and released in 2009. It was published by Electronic Arts. It is available on PlayStation 3 and Wii. It runs on EngineXT.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Dead Space: Extraction is a 2009 rail shooter co-developed by Visceral Games and Eurocom and published by Electronic Arts for the Wii. A port for PlayStation 3 was released in 2011 alongside Dead Space 2. A spin-off within the Dead Space series and a prequel to the original game, the story follows survivors from the Aegis VII mining colony as the planet and newly-arrived ship USG Ishimura is overrun by deadly monsters called Necromorphs. Gameplay involves going through scripted sequences with different characters, using assigned weapons to kill Necromorphs by severing their limbs. Each version respectively supported the Wii Zapper and PlayStation Move peripherals.
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How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are horror, science fiction and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative and Single player.

Where it sits in the Dead Space series

Dead Space: Extraction is the second of 16 entries we hold in the Dead Space series. It arrived 11 months after Dead Space. The next entry was Dead Space: Ignition in 2010. Its critic score of 81 is 8 points above the series average of 73. The highest-rated entry is Dead Space at 91.

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How it was received

Dead Space: Extraction holds a critic score of 81 out of 100. That places it above 77% of the 3,305 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2009 averaged 67, so it scored 14 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Dead Space: Extraction launched on 24 September 2009, within three weeks of Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat and Pokémon SoulSilver Version. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.

Released around the same time: Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat, Pokémon SoulSilver Version.

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When did Dead Space: Extraction come out?
Dead Space: Extraction was released on 24 September 2009 for PlayStation 3 and Wii.

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