![]() These twerps are probably the most annoying new enemy in the game. It makes it a lot easier to connect with the man, so you actually start caring for his story, and what might happen to him, which, unfortunately, makes the death scenes even more disheartening. But as the game progresses, and Isaac's mental condition worsens, there's some genuine character development, and in a single conversation you learn more about Isaac than you ever did throughout the course of the entire first game. At the beginning of the game, it doesn't really add much, with the only words he utters being expletives when he's rushed at by another gaggle of Necromorphs. And, obviously, as there's a much more personal focus this time around, they've given Isaac a voice. While the first Dead Space focused on the Unitology cult (and gang of religious nutters that's apparently a sly dig at scientology), and the hunt for the Red Marker (an artifact believed by the Unitologists to hold the key to eternal life), Dead Space 2 focuses more on Isaac himself, and the deterioration of his mental state after the revelation at the end of the original game (which we won't spoil if you haven't already played it). You'll want to keep the Line Gun with you for any fast moving enemies, as it's wide horizontal beam can remove both legs of an enemy in a single shot, and I've heard that a fully-upgraded Javelin Gun makes the final section a heck of a lot easier. As well as the plasma cutter, there are various other weapons you'll find lying around the spaceship (well, find the schematics for, which unlocks that weapon at the store) that have their own amputating advantages. It's a different way of doing things, and while it might take a few tries to get used to going for the arms instead of the head, you'll soon be cutting limbs off like a qualified surgeon - after all, these things are trying to kill you. Take off the blade arms however, and as the old saying goes - "He's 'armless". Take the head off a standard Necromorph and rather than collapsing, it'll keep coming at you, only now, it's even more dangerous, blindly swinging its gigantic blade arms to try and land a hit. Whereas in other games you're encouraged to aim for the head (The classic zombies of the movies, for example, can only really be defeated by destruction of the brain), the Necromorphs are a whole different story. And you, if you're not careful.Įventually, Isaac manages to find a handy plasma cutter, and the real intricacies of what the developers have termed Dead Space's "Strategic Dismemberment" combat system show themselves. Shoot it, and it explodes, taking out any enemies around. While in the original, kinesis was used more as a way of solving puzzles and picking up unreachable items, in Dead Space 2 it's evolved into a weapon in it's own right, and an effective one, at that. ![]() Using kinesis allows you to pick up any objects scattered around the area and use them as weapons tables, chairs, boxes, lights, and even the razor-sharp claws of fallen enemies can be used when ammo's running to low to fight your way to safety. Soon Isaac regains both his telekinesis module and the use of his arms - and, as you've got no other weapons to fight with, this leads to a rather practical introduction to Isaac's powers. So without any weapons, and with no way of attacking any would be assailants anyway, there's no choice but to run from the hordes of Necromorphs invading the hospital. To make matters worse, Isaac is completely defenceless, and stuck in a straitjacket. And, unfortunately for Isaac, the Sprawl is in the middle of a Necromorph (humans mutated by an alien virus) outbreak. ![]() Three years after the events of the first Dead Space, Isaac awakens from some kind of coma on the Sprawl, a sprawling (hence the name) metropolis built on the remains of Titan, one of Saturn's moons. While it doesn't cover the backstory of the series entirely (the story covered in the movies and the comic books, for example), it gives you all you need to understand what's going on, and the inclusion of the backstory of Dead Space: Extraction is useful for those with a Wii (or a PS3) that they could play it on. If you're new to the Dead Space story, and all this talk of girlfriends, aliens and cults already has you a bit baffled don't panic, as the Dead Space 2 disc features a "Previously on Dead Space" video that explains the story from both the original Dead Space, and its prequel, the Wii lightgun game Dead Space: Extraction. Which Animal Crossing Character Are You?.How many Harry Potter characters can you name from their PS1 renditions?.Play quizzes, win prizes! Test your knowledge with our quizzes, and you could win £/$/€20 of PSN/XBL/eShop/Steam credit!
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