Dead Space 3 to have four unlockable modes

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Executive producer of Dead Space 3, Steve Papoutsis, has recently announced some new additions that we can expect from the upcoming title. Within a developer blog, Steve revealed four unlockable gameplay modes for Dead Space 3, each available after completion of the campaign.

New Game +, the traditional replay option with retained stats and weapons; Classic Mode, similar to Dead Space 1 in which there’s no crafting, it’s strictly single-player, and uses classic style aiming; Pure Survival, for the survival horror veterans who don’t mind playing the game with extremely limited resources, no ammo or health drops, just resources to make what you need; and lastly, there’s the return of Hardcore modes, players are limited to just one life for Isaac–no respawns.

It’s neat having these extra modes packed in. It’s not very comforting knowing that these things could have easily been made on the side to be purchased as DLC–such is the industry–but they sounds promising. While Hardcore may be too much for myself, I think Pure Survival sounds about my speed. What are you guys going to choose for your second playthrough, assuming you like the game enough to do so?

[Source, via Destructoid]

  • http://twitter.com/Yuschick Daniel Yuschick

    My first playthrough will be on Zealot. I will then do my traditional ‘redemption’ run where I run through on easy and mutilate everything after having made my life hell on Zealot. The pure survival and hardcore modes sound great to me as well. I loved hardcore on DS2.

  • http://www.facebook.com/lineker.moraes.9 Lineker Moraes ReaperWindrunne

    If similar to DS2′ Hardcore, Hardcore it is.

  • http://www.facebook.com/ivannero.trevino Ivan Nero Trevino

    classic style aiming? since when did the aiming change?

    • Earthbound_X

      Yeah, the aiming felt the same as the first two games in the demo, I have no idea what “classic aiming” means.

      • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=649675768 Cris Hipolito

        maybe it’s locked with the laser sight setup exactly from dead space 1? the one with delay (which i don’t mind) and extends farther away from isaac.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=649675768 Cris Hipolito

    going solo with zealot then pure survival ! and hardcore!

    Quoted from playstationlifestyle.net:

    ‘Hard Core mode has made a significant change from its appearance in Dead Space 2. In Dead Space 3,the save system utilizes an autosave at checkpoints, rather than requiring you to manually save at save points. For this reason, the limit of three saves from our previous experience with Hard Core mode would not work for this game, which is why in Dead Space 3’s Hard Core, you simply cannot die. That’s right, no deaths. Period. You can autosave, stop playing the game, come back to it anytime, but as soon as you die your progress is reset to the beginning and autosaved.’

    • Earthbound_X

      Wow, that should be an interesting challenge.

    • http://twitter.com/Yuschick Daniel Yuschick

      They need a hardcore trophy this game. That would be a blast to unlock.

      • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=649675768 Cris Hipolito

        yea!

  • Thomas

    A Solo specific part in a game these days what can i say (FANTASTIC) some game developers actually cares about single-player loving gamers out there.

    A “classic mode” great now if they could just implement that in say my favorit franchise out there “Resident Evil” you hear that CAPCOM.

    The autosave part i can live with (most games have them these days) as long as they dont put them in stupid places as has been done i other games…….