This section of the game plagued Jeff during his solo run, since his focus was split across different hazards. The drill reactivated and went haywire, just as a large number of Necromorphs launched an all-out assault. One example saw Jeff and myself walk into a closed area to reactivate an excavation drill. Two heads are better than one in Dead Space 3, with many of the solo campaign's tougher stretches feeling infinitely easier. In the end, this felt like the right way to go, since there's no quicker way to remove the game's tension than to resort to repeated resurrections. Necromorphs laugh in the face of this option, often taking players down by ripping them in half or dismembering them, ultimately rendering revival useless. Revival mostly comes into play during firefights, which are few and far-between. This is not as big a crutch as it appears on the surface.
There's an optional co-op revival setting that allows players to revitalize their buddy within a time limit. If one partner dies, the game ends and both partners go back to the previous checkpoint. It's an odd narrative presentation that starts to feel awkward at various points.
However, many of the game's NPC's will solely address Isaac, many times completely disregarding Carver's existence. Isaac and John will frequently exchange dialogue throughout the co-op campaign. John Carver, a character that originally debuted in a YouTube short last year. While playing online co-op, the host plays as Isaac Clarke, while the client plays as Sgt. It should be noted that Dead Space 3's narrative unfolds the same, regardless of whether it's played solo or with a partner. However, Dead Space 3's co-op campaign isn't completely bereft of tension and features many adrenaline-pumping moments that help set it apart from its well-designed, single-player counterpart. As I played through co-op with Shacknews' Jeff Mattas, I did, in fact, notice that some of the campaign's more intense moments do feel compromised with a partner. This is a horror franchise that's been built on facing grisly creations in claustrophobic, tight spaces-not typically an experience that's meant to be shared. I felt skeptical when I first learned that Dead Space 3 would feature a co-op campaign.
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