Some really nice stuff here. It's too bad it's on rails, the engine and art look great.

Very cool stuff indeed.  Game looks gorgeous, and so WHAT if it's on rails?  People act like House of the Dead and CarnEvil and Time Crisis weren't fun as Hell or something!!!

I have a feeling this will be scary and tense. I played Dead Space and it was not only a pleasant surprise, but became one of my favorites. It's funny, the worst part of Dead Space "turret guns" would be a blast on the Wii.

As much as I want to (and I do) get behind this, I just can't get hyped for an on-rails shooter in this day and age that isn't housed in an arcade unit. That being said, it looks like the folks at Visceral Games have really made an effort here, and for that they get my commendations. If Extraction turns out to be all that and a bag of potato chips, great... I just won't be holding my breath.

It's impressive, I just hope it's a meaty and replayable experience. It seems that the firefights are more prolonged than in the usual lightgun game which feels like a fast paced shooting gallery. It gives the impression of some actual AI for the enemies, and all the different flinch animations and behaviour changes from shooting their limbs off will hopefully make it seem a little more emergent than usual, and so more fun to replay.

The engine is quite impressive.

Every time I see this game, I think "Hey, this actually looks kinda fun", but then I remember what the game could have been...

Well anyway, the decision's been made and they're doing a good job so, so far so good.

While I understand that a shooter style game in the vein of the original Dead Space would be ideal, you also have to remember that an "on-rails" shooter allows them to maintain a solid framerate and make some incredible graphics without worrying about drops, pop-in, clipping issues, and etc.  Personally, I'd rather have an intact experience than something that could potentially be broken.

People are just making guesses when they say it would look x times worse if it wasn't on rails. Well, my own guess is that It would probably be near identical (as long as they kept it first person), perhaps with a few less enemies here and there, which could be compensated by their strength, the way they show up, and overall pacing balance.

With the camera being this cinematic as opposed to the old scool type of simply moving from a to b, encountering enemies then moving on to c, etc, they probably constantly adjust the paths the character takes to make them more immersive and logical, they constantly adjust different events (encounters, cut scenes, whatever) occuring at different places, where the camera points, where you have branching paths or view control, until they're happy with the feel of the whole level or section.

So, while I do believe there's some such benefit in this type of title, I think it's more along the lines of "so, okay, we have our path  set in stone for this section, I think the performance so far allows us to add a couple more enemies here and there, so let's go for it" as opposed to a merticulously crafted engine and content  that are 150% optimised for this type of game like SEGA would have done back in the 90s.

We see the camera constantly moving around, similar to CAPCOM's Darkside Chronicles cinematic feel. That probably takes a lot of time to create in a satisfying way, and I really doubt they so heavily adjust the already created level and rough event and content placement in significant ways every time they change that to make it even more cinematic, which completely changes the on-screen content from what it was previously.

And yeah I hope this turns out to be a good game, I'm just saying.

Some nice screens on this page. Kinda fuzzy so I think they're off-screen. Footage is much better.

The first level (but no Intro and stuff I guess):

Nice..watching now..

Personally I think that looks boring so I hope it picks up pace a LOT further into the game... Darkside Chronicles looks much more appealing with its shaky camera and fast paced events. How are you even going to be replaying this with all the slow near-no-gameplay (not even shooting) sections without falling asleep? Maybe I'm missing something. Aside from that, phenomenal work. But "that" is pretty important.

Well it is only the start of the game, which like any other is trying to introduce you to the basic gameplay. They are not going to inundate players with too many NPCs so early in the game, because it's not important to, and it's not Dead Space. What's far more important, and what's is in keeping with Dead Space, is setting the scene well, attempting to make you feel immersed in the environment. The original did a fantastic job of doing that through visuals and sound on the first level, and often you were not shooting at anything. I see those hallmarks of the original in that brief video of the first level above. 

You can be sure the action hikes up significantly.

There is shaky cam, but thankfully it wont be over used as it seems to be in that dull looking RE game. Anyone would think one leg is shorter than the other ..

It looks as weak as the original is in my opinion. How anyone can find the original fun is beyond my comprehension. I spent a hour with it and no more.  Old fashioned plodding Zombies are immediate fail, as is shooting a Zombie in the foot and watching him die. /
RE:DC

The difference is in Dead Space, you were the one doing the exploring and taking in the scenery. If you take that out, then you're simply watching a movie. You don't back yourself into walls and corners in anticipation of what may or may not jump out at you, being all creeped out from the audio. You just watch the guy do his thing and wait for something to appear and shoot, since that's 90% of the gameplay in a lightgun shooter. If there's nothing to shoot, then what? Sure, plot and mood progression is great, but it seemed OVERdone here, that's my problem with it.

Also, what was the point of having the player choose to press the elevator button or open the door? It made sense in the branching path, but when there was nothing else to do for the player at that point, why not just get on with it? What is it, a chance to take a break? I can always pause if I need one. It's like faked interactivity. I hope there's not much of that.

I haven't played RE:UC but Darkside Chronicles looks very, very good in my opinion. Slow or fast enemies makes no difference as long as the gameplay is balanced around them. Besides, there are plenty of other types of enemies in the RE series.

Great trailer:

I've seen footage of the tracer you can use to guide you to your objective. It seems that even though the game will be on rails you will have opportunities to stop, check your destination and choose a different path. If that's the case, the game will be better for it. Either way, probably a day one purchase for me as I loved Dead Space.

It's only @ set poitns with branching paths, it's in the gameplay video @ one instance (or more, I didn't watch it whole).