10 Video Games Whose Best Ending Was In DLC
8. Awakened - Dead Space 3
While nowhere close to the horror heights of the previous two games, the ending to Dead Space 3 is perfectly fine, as third entries go. But it does end a little too well, doesn't it? This is Dead Space, for crying out loud. Where's the nihilism, the despair, the existential horror?
"Right here," declares the Awakened DLC, which adds an epilogue to the story that reinforces the main overriding theme of Dead Space: it can always get worse.
Awakened sees Isaac and Carver survive the events of the base game, and work to try and get home. All the while being plagued with visions from the markers trying to drive them both even crazier than they likely already are. All culminating in one of the most horrific and frustrating cliffhangers in gaming history.
With the franchise basically dead, though, this ending kinda becomes the perfect closing note for the series. The final image of Dead Space is the most terrifying and nihilistic note you could possibly go out on.
As corporately compromised as Dead Space 3 was, Awakened demonstrated that the guys making it still knew in their hearts what the series was all about.