![]() ![]() Movement is taken care of for you, so all you have to worry about is aiming, picking up items, and completing the occasional minigame. You play Dead Space Extraction from a first-person perspective, pointing the Wii Remote at the screen to aim a reticle at various objects and enemies in the environment. While EA's game does take itself more seriously than Sega's series of campy zombie shooting games, aside from a more somber tone and vastly superior voice acting, the games are almost interchangeable. Extraction bears more than just a passing resemblance to the classic House of the Dead series of arcade shooting games. Marketing folks try to spin the game as a "guided first-person adventure", but Dead Space Extraction is nothing more than a rail-shooter. Once you accept the inherent limitations of the game's rail-shooter design and start shooting aliens and watching them explode in gory, satisfying fashion, you might start enjoying Dead Space Extraction almost in spite of yourself. I played Dead Space Extraction recently at a pre-E3 press event at the Electronic Arts offices in Los Angeles and was pleasantly surprised at just how great the game looks and plays. ![]()
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