Dead Space 2 Review

Dead Space was part of an attempt by EA to branch out into new ground. It was a survival horror game with a science fiction setting; not the most original idea I suppose, but it was a good game nonetheless.

EA and Visceral have seen fit to continue the Dead Space saga (well really, they’ve pretty much turned it into a franchise), and a result we now have Dead Space 2. In the first game we were introduced to Isaac Clarke, an engineer. Him and a small team are summoned to the USG Ishimura—a large planet cracker that was apparently mining the surface of the planet Aegis 7. Though part of the reason they were being sent out was to investigate why the ship had stopped communicating, it was supposed to be a routine maintenance mission. Isaac himself had been looking forward to visiting his girlfriend Nicole, who was serving as a medical officer on the Ishimura.

But as they found out within 15 minutes of docking, something…