![]() And in the simplest-looking game, Trace Route, you use the left thumbstick to guide an electrical signal in a sidescrolling race against competing signals power-ups and a shifting environment increase the challenge. System Override, meanwhile, is a variation on tower-defense games where you’re on the offensive, releasing four different viruses on a hex-like board to overwhelm defending systems. Hardware Crack, which reminded us a bit of Resident Evil 5’s sunbeam puzzle, has you rotating reflectors on a chessboard-like grid - aligning lasers to complete circuits and give you access to the device in question. In these scenarios, you’ll play one of three mini-games to hack a door, gain access to a machine, and more. ![]() A minute later, he’s called to a cargo bay to help hack open a broken door - one of many sequences where Ignition shifts from motion comic to puzzle game. ![]() In the brief intro scene we watched, Franco is chatting with Sarah Andarsyn, a fellow engineer he’s secretly dating. In this case, the motion-comic portion of the game tells the overarching story: you’re Franco Delille, an engineer on The Sprawl (the space station where Dead Space 2 takes place), and it’s immediately before the events of Dead Space 2. If you’ve never seen a motion comic, picture a series of comic-book panels with static backdrops but a few moving elements - an eye winking, an arm raising, a panel flashing - supported by voice-overs and music. Dead Space: Ignition, it turns out, is a unique hybrid of motion comic and puzzle game. ![]() “Or a space-combat game where you’re blowing up ships full of necromorphs.” “Must be a scaled-down version of the shooter, like a platformer,” we thought. When EA told us they had another Dead Space game to show us - a Live Arcade title due this fall - our thoughts instantly went to familiar places. ![]()
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