Dead Space: Ignition
Dead Space Ignition is a followup to Dead Space 2, set between the two main games. The game takes the form of what executive producer Steve Papoutsis describes as an "interactive comic-style game" and is…
Dead Space: Ignition is an adventure developed by Sumo Digital, released 12 October 2010 on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.
What Dead Space: Ignition is
Dead Space: Ignition is an adventure game developed by Sumo Digital and released in 2010. It was published by Electronic Arts. It is available on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.
The premise, in the publisher's words
An engineer named Franco Delile and his partner Sarah are called to fix an elevator on the Sprawl (a space station of a shard of Titan, one of Saturn's moons that was "planet-cracked"), only to discover evidence of sabotage. They are then called to fix a computer mainframe, again finding that the damage was intentional. While traveling between jobs, they hear distant screams and investigate, only to encounter people being attacked by grotesque monstrosities dubbed "Necromorphs." Franco and Sarah escape using the tram. From there on, they are sent across the Sprawl in an increasingly desperate attempt to repair station systems and assist other survivors, all the while under attack by…
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, horror and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
Where it sits in the Dead Space series
Dead Space: Ignition is the third of 16 entries we hold in the Dead Space series. It arrived a year after Dead Space: Extraction. The next entry was Dead Space 2 in 2011. Its critic score of 40 is 33 points below the series average of 73. The highest-rated entry is Dead Space at 91.
How it was received
Dead Space: Ignition holds a critic score of 40 out of 100. That places it above 4% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2010 averaged 70, so it scored 30 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Dead Space: Ignition launched on 12 October 2010, within three weeks of Fallout: New Vegas, Sid Meier's Civilization V, Super Meat Boy and Dragon Age: Origins - Ultimate Edition. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Fallout: New Vegas, Sid Meier's Civilization V, Super Meat Boy, Dragon Age: Origins - Ultimate Edition.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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