Dead Space 2 is an unrelenting package of surprise and suspense that dials the intensity of its predecessor right up to 111. That didn’t stop every encounter from turning into a white-knuckle fight for survival that left me limping to the next exit, praying that there would be a save point and some supplies around the corner. It was seldom a surprise when some corpse briefly illuminated by my flash light reanimated into a shambling abomination or a hellish creature burst from a steel cabinet. There are few survival-horror game clichés that it doesn’t reach for at some point in its running time – the rattling in the air vents, the monsters that leap from conveniently placed closets, the horrific hallucinations that plague its hapless protagonist, the gruesome animations that accompany death.īut its execution is so skilful that I spent most of the game creeping carefully around its dark corridors with my gun aimed and my heart in throat, anyway. Dead Space 2 has no right to be as nerve-wracking as it is.
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