10 Video Game DLCs Better Than The Game

10. Awakened - Dead Space 3

After two terrific predecessors, Dead Space 3 was yet another threequel that couldn't quite deliver the goods, unmooring the series' deft balance of action and suspense for a defanged, less-horrific experience packed with irksome microtranscactions.

It was certainly a competent title, but clearly one impacted by the demands of developer Visceral Games' overlords at EA.

Just over a year later, the Awakened DLC was released, which effectively functioned as a 90-minute epilogue to the main story, resolving the fate of protagonist Isaac Clarke while also laying the ground for future adventures - which, sadly, per Dead Space 3's disappointing sales, never came to pass.

Even with its frustrating cliffhanger ending and short length, Awakened is a hyper-concentrated return to the genuine survival horror of the first two Dead Space games, emphasising the claustrophobia which felt so lacking in the third.

If Dead Space 3 feels like a corporate obligation Visceral had to make in order to appease EA, Awakened is clearly the game they wanted to produce all along.

By staying true to the series' roots, it's more entertaining in its brevity than the entirety of the main game.