Length-wise, it’s a pretty decent sized expansion with the chapters being about equal in length to the full game’s. I know this is me being nitpicky and all, but there’s no explanation offered… like, not even on the Dead Space Facebook page. Gabe and Lexine didn’t even get along throughout most of Extraction and Lexine had a thing for Nate, but now Gabe and Lex are married and Nate is nowhere to be seen. One of the things that bugs me about the story is we don’t ever find out why Nathan McNiell isn’t in the picture anymore (if you’ve played Extraction, you’ll know Nate is one of the three survivors). However, things do get interesting near the end of the expansion and should raise some questions about the future of the franchise in a similar way that the full-game’s ending teased you. It’s told in such a way where they’d rather just beat you in the face with the information than spend any effort on actual plot development and it’s somewhat disappointing. Story progression throughout Severed is weak and is mostly told through lazy explanations of everything through your communication device (pretend you’re watching a television show, or something, and the bad guy confronts the protagonist and is all like, “You have the bloodline of the gods and are therefore given these secret powers-so, we need to kill you and drain you of your blood so we can have said powers! And I’m craaaaazy!” (that’s not the plot of Severed, btw)). It’s a neat idea that has you performing actions that are amusing as they sometimes are the cause of Isaac’s difficulty in his own progression. The story runs parallel to Isaac Clarke’s exploits on The Sprawl and has you running through some familiar areas pre and post-Isaac Clarke. Severed (which is now available for purchase on XBOX 360 for 560 MSP and on PS3 for $6.99) features two single player chapters about Dead Space: Extraction survivors Gabe Weller and Lexine Murdoch (who is now Lexine Weller as she’s married to Gabe). So, when Visceral blessed me with the ability to play some more single player Dead Space 2 goodness, I couldn’t refuse. Dead Space 2 is a fantastic game it’s intense, fun, and has an intriguing story compelling you to continue progressing through the doomed Titan Space Station.