- Chaos Hits The Sprawl.
- Master The Terror.
- Tear Through Space In Zero G.
- Online Multiplayer.
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It’s two years since Visceral Games and Electronic Arts unleashed
Dead Space on an unsuspecting world – which, hopefully, is just
about enough time for your shredded nerves to have recovered.
Which is just as well, since the second instalment of the
space-survival-horror game is significantly better than its
predecessor in every way imaginable. Which means that, no matter
who you are, it will e the pants off you.
The action resumes three years after the events of the first
game, with a more seasoned, embittered (and, apparently, mentally
unstable) Isaac Clarke waking up in the Sprawl, a giant,
dystopian city on Titan, one of Saturn’s moons. He must, of
course, overcome deranged behaviour and betrayal from his fellow
humans, plus hordes of the most disgusting, rotting, blood-crazed
necromorphs ever seen in a videogame.
This time around, Isaac is better equipped to do so: he moves
quicker, and has better melee attacks and weapons (the Javelin
and the Ripper are particular highlights) than before. His
Kinesis has been improved so that you can pick up necromorph
limbs, for example, and fire them off in combat. And if you
decide you’re not so keen on a weapon after all, you can re-spec
at a workbench, recling your Power Nodes which can then be
used to upgrade the weapons you prefer.
The necromorphs are even more fearsome than in Dead Space, with
new varieties which require very different strategies if you are
going to dispatch them. The fairly self-explanatory Pukers, for
example, need to be taken out with head-s if you want to
avoid being sprayed with ic bile. The Pack – swarms of
mutated children – must be kept at arms’ length, and are best
dealt with by a weapon with a large blast radius. The terrifying
noises made by the necromorphs as they attempt to rip you limb
from limb contribute massively to Dead Space 2’s already
terrifying atmosphere, adding to chilling lighting, music and
sound effects, and small but effective devices such as vents
which suddenly spew steam in your direction.
Thankfully, there are breaks from the relentlessness, provided by
a decent a of the clever puzzles for which Dead Space is
famed. Many of which, naturally, feature negotiating deadly traps
or aligning crucial objects in zero-gravity conditions, or
dexterous manipulation of objects using Kinesis and Stasis. Dead
Space 2’s storyline – which we won’t divulge as we don’t want to
spoil it for you – hangs together and flows magnificently, with
some real edge-of-the-seat cliff-hangers and set pieces marking
the ends of individual chapters.
The Sprawl itself has a huge impact on gameplay: as it is set on
an atmosphere-free moon, you can often shoot out windows
triggering a catastrophic decompression; time it right, and
you’ll be able to shoot a switch to close emergency shutters
after any necromorphs present have been sucked outside.
And finally, Dead Space 2 features a four-on-four multiplayer
mode, in which a team of humans seeks to achieve objectives,
while teams of necromorphs attempt to eviscerate them with their
distinctive attacks. The game’s multiplayer mode has been likened
to Left4Dead, which should excite all gamers in the know.
If you like horror, you’ll love Dead Space 2 – and if you like
third-person action-adventure games, you’ll love it, too. And if
you’re a particular fan of survival-horror games, then Dead Space
2 will be the biggest treat you will be able to get your hands on
this year.
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1 Game Disc