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Got the game about half a week ago and finally finished it tonight on the survivalist mode. The game was AWESOME. I've read a lot threads on various game forums discussing how many fans were afraid that Dead Space 2 would be another Resident Evil 5 with more action than horror. I think Dead Space 2 had more action than the first, but it still had the horror and isolated feel throughout the game. The Dead Space series isn't too scary, but I find the series more creepy with psychological fear.
The story isn't bad, but there were moments where it was too predictable on what is going to happen. What is up with the developers using females as traitors lol? I don't mind, but Isaac has some bad luck with the opposite sex (besides Ellie... for now). They did the great job of putting the player right into the action since I did not expect the intro to go down like that. I was thinking that it would start off a little slow like the first, but I was dead wrong. I loved the adrenaline rush during the first 10 minutes of the game where you had no weapons.
The gameplay is the same as Dead Space, but with tweaks here and there. I miss the clunky controls from the first game, but the smoother and faster controls for the sequel is alright. The idea of using a Necromorph's body part as a weapon was a nice touch, but should have been in the first game. What I loved the most about this game is how they changed the zero gravity gameplay where you had more freedom flying around.
Overall, this game was kickass and definitely lived up to the hype (IMO). Visceral Games seriously raised the bar in Dead Space 2 and I wonder how they will make Dead Space 3 since this one is already so good.
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Just finished the game, I love how Dead Space continues to give you the "holy shit this game is awesome"-vibes that some games do. Really love the series, really love to just go around blasting necromorphs (even though I hate those immortal ones) everyone should play this game if they like action.
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only got about an hr of gameplay in and liked it so far. up to chapter 4. the music and basically overall darkness really sets the game/mood.
the PS Move dead space game thinge looks fun when your fucking around
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took me 8 hours iirc (of alive gameplay, explained below) to finish it on Normal (a few days between play sessions)
the gameplay doesn't save gametime when you die, so if i played for 20 minutes without saving, and died, it forgets that 20 minutes.
so technically, i have a few more hours tacked on
anyways.. it was a fucking awesome game
however, very small replayability
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i like how Dead Space 2 tries so hard to show off Isaac Clarke as this cool uber-badass character by making him do impossible shit like jumping from space all the way to the space station platform several miles below, or fighting a huge monster and a space gunship at the same time.
btw, great game.
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Just got this game yesterday, and has been an AWESOME experience so far on survivalist mode. My desktop hardware is more than capable enough to run smoothly on very high settings, everything was awesome till the second session of play through where the cinematics in the game just stopped working, like when a cinematic sequence starts my whole screen would start to glow yellow, and like the sequence where you buy a new rig also just froze and the sound effect is still working just the animation is just stuck till the end of it...
same thing happens during E spamming sequences, monsters grabbing/hallucination cinematics, screen just froze and glows yellow, been really annoying thus far any idea what the heck is wrong?
i did update to the latest driver and directX softwares. but like i said everything was fine in my first playthrough, the next day the cinematics just stopped working.running with a HD6950 1GB now btw.
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You're better off asking on EA's forums, but I'm not surprised that PC versions of multi-plat games have problems.
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I'm actually fairly certain that this game will be on my mind when december comes and I'm looking at game of the year discussions. It's been 2 months I think since I completed it and I'm still getting the itch to go back and complete my new game plus playthrough. God, this game owns so hard.
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This game was alright.
Pretty much no re playability because of everything being scripted, and the other issue I had was that it started to become very obvious when a monster was about to arrive. That same damn grate necro every single time.
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Has anyone else noticed that the exploding zombie babies in the school can be oneshotted by bludgeoning them with the "Time Out" chair?
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It's a fine game but sadly once you've finished it once it has very little replay value. Maybe after a few years. I hope Dead space 3 has the scare factor like the first part along with the awesome bosses combined with the zero gravity stile of DS2 and general "going insane" feel.
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I personally love the Dead Space series and I have played Dead Space about 3 times and Dead Space 2 twice already. It really depends how much you like it and if you find it fun. I play it more than once to get better items and get some trophies. Yeah, the game is heavily scripted with scare factors and action sequences, but I love it even if I've seen it a hundred times.
Like I said before in this thread, the horror factor for this game varies from person to person. It is like how a scary movie can be scary to someone and not to another. I personally find the series to be more eery and intense with more psychological methods than scariness. All I got to say is that Visceral did a great job shutting up the doubters that Dead Space 2 will be not another Resident Evil 5.
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I can't watch horror movies and I realy don't like getting scared in general. However, I watched Dead Space 2 and 1 from Let's Play series on Youtube, and I liked both games' gameplay and atmosphere...but I am not sure if I should play them because as I said I don't like getting scared! What should I do people?
Oh, and I finished Doom III, and that might be the most scary game I've ever played so far.
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On March 24 2011 20:16 Haydin wrote:
Has anyone else noticed that the exploding zombie babies in the school can be oneshotted by bludgeoning them with the "Time Out" chair?
i literally lol'd
also, i recently started playing this again and was trying Hardcore... anyone ever tried?
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I liked more the first one. The second had some things i did not like: 2 much action orientated, the fact that you talk as isaac clark kinda killed the fear from the game (was his fear not mine), and the storyline didnt have any predictable but cool ending.
All togheter i felt it lacking to the original game.
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iloveav made the excellent point, Its Clarkes fear not ours. Actually, he pretty much echoes everything I think. It was fun but not that fun, it had a few new features though I can't think of what they are after playing it. It was startling but after playing the first Dead Space a few times when it came out there was nothing that didn't happen a dozen times in the original. The characters were lacking and I appreciate them giving Clarke a voice but it did unintentionally or otherwise lessen the horror without terribly improving the human element. All and all it felt like yet another sequel that could have been mistaken for an expansion pack.
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