I finally played this game for the first time from the demo on PSN. Its pretty good I dont know why people were mad at it.  It starts out pretty slow but when it picks up I love the twist at the end of the first level. I wouldnt say its better than HOD overkill, but IMHO its miles ahead of the RE chronicles games. I think people just hated it cause it was not the game that the HD consoles got, but instead of judging it for what it was it was being judged for what it isnt. But WTH i like on rail shooters so it might be me. I wanna get the Wii version, cause the PS3 version's file is large and HD space is getting low, but I might just get the PSN version cause its cheaper. Amazon has new copies going from $17-23 plus the 4 dollar shipping. PSN is 15

You're better off buying the Dead Space 2 Limited Edition. I picked up mine yesterday and started Extraction first, and I already have the game beat. You might as well spend $60 on a new game and get this for free instead of just spending $15 on it alone. With the addition of trophies, HD graphics, and of course Move support, it's the better version imo.

Edit: The full game is actually 3533 mb just to let you know.

the 'problem' many people have with the game was the fact that many people were almost led to believe that DS: Extraction was a full blown 3rd person 'true' DS game before it was officially announced.  Stories like this: http://kotaku.com/5145788/dead-space-wii-announced where Riccitiello promised that 'despite the technical limitations of the console, everything that made the 360/PS3/PC version so creepy will be there on the Wii'. What we didn't know was that didn't include the entire gameplay style of the original.

When it surfaced the game was a 'guided first person experience', many people, including myself, felt at least a little bit pissed off.  One also has to take into consideration that a similar event had occurred with RE:DC not long before.

haven't played it, though i have it since I got the Limited edition version of Dead Space 2

How does it control with Move? Does it approach the accuary of the Wiimote?

I haven't played the Wii version of the game but from my experience, it was accurate as all hell. It was comfortable using the wand and I felt relaxed the whole time. I didn't have to sit there struggling to get my aim right or anything to perform a dismemberment.

5/5 for accuracy from me.

Sounds great.

It's actually got a good enough story for an on rails shooter, great voice acting, and is indeed as violent as anything we've seen from Dead Space so far. It's a worthy addition to a great series of games/movies and deserves to be played.

I gave this a go before playing DS2 just to catch up with what happened before Dead Space, and it's quite awesome going through some recognizable areas of the Ishimura. How can anyone complain about getting this for free with the purchase of DS2? it's great.

Edit: I just nabbed this from IGN. http://ps3.ign.com/articles/114/1146461p1.html

If I would have spent a full fledged $40 for this as a stand-alone title then yes I would be displeased with my purchase, but being a free game, i'm completely satisfied with what I played. It's short enough that I wouldn't mind giving it another go on the harder difficulties and to complete the challenges. If this would have had online co-op and leaderboards, it would have been even better.

I didn't enjoy it that much because I was honestly tired of on-rails games. The only on-rails game that I really enjoyed was Umbrella Chronicles and that's because it was my first on-rails game. After that, I couldn't fully enjoy Overkill, Extraction, and even Darkside Chronicles. Yes those are great games but 1 was enough for me.