8 Video Game ‘Final Instalments’ That Shouldn't Actually Be The Last
6. Dead Space 3
Like Crysis before it, Dead Space was another franchise that seemed to recede in quality over each entry, despite its fantastic concept. Taking the sci-fi horror theme of films like Alien and Event Horizon and placing it in a gaming setting was a masterstroke by the folks over at Visceral Games, who despite not having time for Dead Space anymore with them being preoccupied by all things Star Wars, should probably revisit the franchise in the future. Alien: Isolation's success indicates that players are still hungry for a good sci-fi horror fix, and it's one that Dead Space used to provide better than everyone else. The weird action/horror hybrid that the series' third entry attempted was by far the franchise's low point, so any new game must have a focus on the same tension that made the first two titles so outstandingly absorbing.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
