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Mixed or average reviews- based on 24 Ratings

  • Summary: Dead Space 2: Severed contains two new single-player chapters and new Achievements.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 15
  2. Negative: 4 out of 15
  1. Mar 29, 2011
    77
    Severed is not bad for a $6 DLC, but I can't shake the feeling that this (severed) piece is just to whet our appetite for bigger things to come.
  2. Mar 3, 2011
    70
    A focus on intense combat makes this brief return to the Sprawl a satisfying one.
  3. 70
    This repetition, combined with Severed's short runtime(two chapters beaten in around two hours), keeps it squarely in the realm of diehard devotees. [May 2011, p.75]
  4. Mar 16, 2011
    40
    Severed places an ungainly weight on the shoulders of dismemberment combat for this extension of Dead Space: Extraction's fiction, creating a dichotomy as uncomfortable as traipsing backwards through already tired levels.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 8
  2. Negative: 1 out of 8
  1. 10
    Short and sweet, and by that I mean an hour of intense violence and paranoia. This was the short story equivalent to Dead Space 2's main game. They brought back almost all of the necromorphs from the main story and added one of my favorites from the first game as well. The game continues to keep me on my toes with the necromorphs surprising me. The action was intense and the story was good, but the bread and butter of this add on was the end. I won't spoil it, but believe me the ending good although it does hit a bit close to home of one of the Dead Space animated movies... Like I said in the beginning; my opinion is that the add on is short and sweet. Expand
  2. I found this piece of DLC to be pretty good. A good story and fun gameplay. The only problem is taht it is a little short. If it were an hour longer, it would have gotten a 9. Expand
  3. The story is interesting but imo would have worked out a lot better if made into a full game because the DLC was too short to really develope it. The characters are likeable but its similar to what I said about the story, There simply wasnt enough length in the DLC to develope the characters either.

    Gameplay is just as fun as when I played the game. Its cheap (only about 560 MS points I believe) and gives you the same Dead Space excitement that the games have. Also the achievements from the main game count in the DLC as well. The game has little replay value though. Overall, If you enjoy Dead Space then you will enjoy this DLC.
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  4. Although game was cool DLC is bad.Story is unbalanced and has too many potholes.Youve seen all this before in the real game.There is nothing new or exciting here.Not the DLC you want to buy so dont. Expand

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