Dead Space Extraction vs. Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles

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intro94 said:
DSE did get good scores because it kinda adds some gameplay elements aside of shooting and melee.They can actually be fun, such the statis fields, the light management and the gravity management.All of that adds to the overall gameplay variety and those are reasons its overall ranked higher, say than HOTD or the prior UC for most reviewers in Metacritics. Personally i also consider those redeeming qualities .

Spot on. DS:E has depth and strategy which RE simply doesn't. It is a competent but generic shooter wrapped in an RE theme.

To answer if RE:DSC is vastyly better than UC if you can deal with the camera. It looks better, headshot are more reasonable, and the pacing is better. On the downside it is much shorter and easier. I was really dissapointed with UC but enjoyed DSC quite a bit. 

Both DSE and DSC are too easy though. That said Extraction is the better of the 3.

As for which Dead Space to play first. It depends. If you want chronology go with Extraction, if you want it presented the way the devs planned play it on HD first. Personally though I had a lot more fun with DSE than I did with Dead Space on PC. It was just too repetitive and monotonous. Though I realize I'm in the minority on this.