

Saving the best mini-game for last in this Dead Space Ignition review, Hardware Crack is a puzzler in which you have to use reflectors to line up energy beams with the corresponding receivers. Once you figured out the right combination to destroy the anti-viral towers, System Overdrive becomes a relatively easy mini-game to master. Instead of protecting a crucial point, you will be sending waves of enemies trying to destroy it.Īlthough System Overdrive sounds like a deep mini-game, it is actually really shallow since you can only send out four types of viruses and in only two directions. System Overdrive plays like a Tower Defense game in reverse. One crucial mistake in the end could mean you have to restart all the way to the beginning, which creates a frustrating experience. Not to mention that your opponent will always be on your tail no matter how clean you run the race. Trace Route has a lot of potential to be a great mini-game in Dead Space Ignition but the less-than-precise controls really hurt it. To counter them, you have several power-ups on your side, like boost, that will help you in the race. You will have to deal with data blocks, firewalls and other enemy beams designed to hinder your progress along the way. The most action-packed of the three mini-games, Trace Route will have you playing as a trace beam trying to reach the end of the obstacle course before your opponents. You can find how each individual mini-game fared in this Dead Space Ignition review below: Trace Route (2 out of 5) Instead, it is made up of three small hacking games. Unlike Dead Space and Dead Space 2, this downloadable title is not a third-person shooter.

Unfortunately, the game failed to deliver a quality experience from those components. Otherwise, the story offers little more than that.ĭead Space Ignition strongest sell was with its story and presentation. The multi-branching story of Dead Space Ignition does a great job at previewing several of the areas within the Sprawl space station in Dead Space 2. The voice-acting fared much better, although it can be a little rough at times. Unfortunately, the art lacked detailed while the animations looked awkward and limited. Dead Space Ignition’s graphics is presented in an animated comic book style.
