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Dead Space 2 reviewGame: Dead Space 2Platform: PlayStation 3 Genre: Action (Survival Horror) Developer: Visceral Games |
Reader review by Alk31997
April 12, 2012 Horror games will always make your heart shudder and scream. Dead Space 2 takes your heart and speaks to it, prods it, haunts it, overwhelms the valves, chills the blood that passes through the veins. If your eyes aren’t compatible for frightening experiences, then this game isn’t for you, please utilize your gaming skills elsewhere. Dead Space 2 is the sequel to the very popular Dead Space, a game that was rich in quality and diversity, swarming with Necromorphs that want to extract the blood and want to break the bones. I welcomed Dead Space 2 with open but cautious arms, the game captures the mind and pecks at it like a burning phoenix, as the player, you are pushed headfirst into a ship matted with troubled memories.Dead Space 2 starts off in a mining ship, the UGS Ishimura, you are Isaac Clarke yet again, a man with a thousand issues and distraught thoughts dangling from his brain like confetti, he is battling the visions of his dead girlfriend, she doesn’t seem to want to commit to her demise. With his sharp-ended feelings, he embarks on saving himself from the monsters that create circles around him, as well as laying her to rest.
The storyline in Dead Space 2 is a frightening but very emotional. If you delve you will be left speechless by the emotions, you mind will be like a turret firing bullets of sentiment. You play as a man, distraught but fighting, a engineer that walks into some trippy times throughout the game, he sees his dead girlfriend, talking to him he listens to every word, taking them in like a bottle of pills.
Isaac starts his mission in a straightjacket; he eventually breaks the shackles, and veers on getting through the task alive, something that is extremely complex. With plasma cutter is hand, he pushes himself through killing what comes in his way. Necromorphs roam the ship, stationed to kill, but if you use your head, you can play them at their own game. You can use severed limbs, you can throw them at the disgusting creatures, and you can use kinesis to pick things up, which will aid you vastly.
The things that make Dead Space 2 so scary, are the crawling babies and the music, the music chills the bones, and haunts the mind. It is a survival horror, and that genre has lit up the coliseum of gaming but sometimes they can spark nightmares. Dead Space 2 did give me some bad dreams, but so did Resident Evil 2 I was only like nine at the time, a little boy with a frail backbone. Even though Dead Space 2 kick started a long series of nightmares, I still love the bones and the blood of the game. The concept is brilliant, the character design epic. The whole game is sublime. I can't praise the developers enough, for their prowess and heart and soul.
When making your way through the ship, you will find workbenches where you can upgrade your weapons. Doing this will make you stronger, strong enough to take on more prominent enemies, you can pick weapons such as the plasma cutter. The right weapons are key to Isaac’s survival; his destiny is in your hands.
Dead Space 2 is a true gem, an underrated story of true survival. If you like the genre, then please give the game a chance, it will blow you away with its epic scariness. The music will send chills down your spine; the whole aspect of killing creatures will attract the horror mogul. Piece by piece, Dead Space 2 is something beautiful as it is sick. Delve and be frightened, delve in and be inspired.
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