CVG: Dead Space 2: The scariest console game yet?

CVG: The horror, the horror. Roughly an hour into our latest playtest of Dead Space 2 and we're in bad shape.

Emotionally frazzled, even the slightest movement on the periphery of our vision results in a burst of fire rattling off into the shadows.

The necromorphs attack intermittently, but the fear never leaves us. Yes, the scare factor, the original game's greatest strength, is undiminished despite a new emphasis on action and multiplayer.

[gravemaker]

beat it already, not scary.

[Jio]

You sure your talking about the right game?

[gravemaker]

of course im sure, you can check my GT SkeletonBrook, already got 850/1000
i like this game its so fun, but scary? no it is not, im not a 7 year old to shit my pants because of some creepy necromorphs

[Jio]

I admit, the fear factor is limited because of how linear it is. Though, I dont know what scares you, it could just be that alien fungus taking over the bodies of decomposed humans and turning them into monsters just isnt scaring some people anymore

[ALFAxD_CENTAURO]

I want to play this with a Surround Sound.

[Darkfiber]

I'm sure it's not scary. The first one wasn't. Console developers don't know how to create fear in games, they only know how to resort to cheap "shock" tactics, like a monster that looks dead on the ground jumping up at you when you walk near it. That isn't fear. I would be startled if my cat did that.

Not to mention the fact that a game can't be scary when you are armed to the teeth. Oh no, it's an alien, but I've got a huge plasma gun and an assault rifle in my pocket that will kill it in 2 seconds, OMG SO SCARY. It's an action game/shooter with overtones of horror, meaning it's still an action game that just happens to take place somewhere where the atmosphere is meant to be scary. That doesn't make it a horror game any more than Fallout 3 is a horror game when you go in the creepy subway tunnels and fight feral ghouls.

[MerkinMax]

How did you obtain it already?

[JohnApocalypse]

Was it fun though?

[Solidus187-SCMilk]

I just want to play it on the hardest mode so that I really have to try to SURVIVE.

[trains]

resident evil 2 and 3 were scary dead space is just about an engineer who has too much testosterone to be scary

[Sevir04]

I cant wait to play it. the first had me on edge! hella scary! and the second looks to do the same! cant wait to play it :-)

[mightyboot]

The scariest? that really depends on what you may think whats scary.

Zombies and Alien monsters are no longer scary for most people so i suposse that big mutaded unknown creatures with glowing red eyes (Regenerators or Nemesis from RE 3/4 for example) are the ones that really make me scared.

[DARK WITNESS]

I have to agree with you there.

I love dead space, love it.. the first was great for a few jumpy moments but it was not till I had to face off against the regenerator that I can honestly say that got to me a bit.

what really did it was knowing that you could not kill him, no matter what you did. He was the embodyment of the classic horror movie freak that just never seemed to die no matter what you did.

big aliens and the rest, ya been seen before, been done before. The regenerator looked horrible and was horrible.

If I had unlimited ammo I would gladly spend all day shooting is legs off, shooting his head off.. watching them grow back again and then shooting them off all over again.

[Darkfiber]

I'm not scared of monsters, I'm not 3 years old. No monster in any video game itself is every "scary", at least not to me. Real fear comes from the unknown. Seeing monsters is not scary if you know what they are, which we already do. If they really wanted to make this game scary, they wouldn't have made it a shooter. They would have taken out every weapon you have and left you alone in the dark, forcing you to crawl through the ducts in the dark, avoiding enemies that you can hear but not see.

[Anderson8]

i take it your a fan of amnesia dark decent then

[Malebaria]

Exactly,it´s highly subjective. I prefer a more psychological horror,namely SH 2,Siren Blood Curse and Fatal Frame,for instance.

DS´s sound is incredible though,and definitely adds to the immersion. It still trumps RE 5,excluding Lost in Nightmares to a degree,in my opinion,horror-wise.

[dukenukemisyourgod]

the freakiest shit is like ghost's from fear 2 or whatever because u dont know where they're gonna spawn next lol.

[IaMs12]

Damn well better be, i hope they take the 1st and improve, BUT of course they wont :(. Ive heard they changed too much, now he is the one going after them when it should still be him running to survive.

[wenaldy]

Amnesia: Dark Descent say Holla..

[Ducky]

... Amnesia isn't a console game.

[wenaldy]

Uh, sorry.. Didn't read the headline.. But still, Amnesia made me shit brick.. :o

[nskrishna2]

It says on consoles. Across all platforms however it has to be Amnesia. I'm never gonna play that again....:(

[Roozium]

On consoles, maybe.

Still, Amnesia is the best horror game on any platform.

[Commander_TK]

Even watching videos of that game is creepy as s***.

[violent80sarcade82]

@darkfiber lol your obviously talking out your ass where in this game did u get tons of ammo u had to really rationalize what weapons u had i dont think u really played more then 10 mins of this game and the plasma rifle was actually the weakest weapon in the game it would probably take 2 full clips just to kill 1 creature it was all about the cutters your 1 of those that thinks just cause u played the ten min demo that makes u know eveything about this game..try actually buying the full game put it on hard and always play in the dark by yourself not around hella people,don't try to act like u had the same expierence like us real hardcore gamers that game was not cheesy or weak that was the scariest game i have ever played in years u just want something to argue about...