Excellent graphics and sound; Constant stream of unnerving thrills; Lead character is given some actual character; Adapts on the best parts of the original
Formulaic gameplay arises by mid-game; Not much change since original Dead Space
Abstract: Dead Space 2 is the sequel to a superb action adventure game set on a spaceship that had undergone an unnerving and catastrophic sequence of events, resulting in an environment you could very reasonably describe as hostile. That much hasn’t change...
Abstract: Dead Space 2 is the sequel to a superb action adventure game set on a spaceship that had undergone an unnerving and catastrophic sequence of events, resulting in an environment you could very reasonably describe as hostile. That much hasn’t change...
Abstract: Protagonist Isaac Clarke is a tough cookie. He has undead beasties thirsting for his flesh, government agents who want his brain, insane cultists who just plain want him dead and his long-dead girlfriend all nipping at his heels. Also he's gone quite...
Abstract: Electronic Arts’s Dead Space games are basically geek fantasies.If this doesn’t come across in the franchise’s brainy engineer protagonist – whose name, Isaac Clarke, is an overt tribute to two of the world’s most famous science-fiction writers – then ...
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Published: 2011-03-08, Author: James , review by: pcworld.co.nz
Abstract: A warning to the squeamish – this is not the game for you. Dead Space 2, much like the original, follows engineer Isaac Clarke as he runs, shoots and dismembers his way through a swarm of grotesque undead monstrosities called necromorphs. Three years h...
