It's been a long wait, but Isaac Clarke is back, and he's more in over his head than he ever was on the USG Ishimura.
Dead Space 2 continues the plight of the hapless engineer who was the sole survivor of an outbreak of reanimated corpses called Necromorphs aboard a planet-cracker starship in Dead Space, a run-away critical success for Visceral Games (then known as EA Redwood Shores). And now the team are back with a game that can only be described as "bigger and better" in every possible way - no mean feat considering we scored the first title a
9.5 here on AusGamers.
So what's so good?
Read our full review to find out.
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Posted 02:25am 25/1/11
Fuxake, I haven't finished the first one yet :[
Posted 03:36am 25/1/11
I've been looking forward to this since I heard about it and the fact that it has multiplayer blew my mind. Whilst I'd like a co-op campaign (an instant 'buy' when games have this), I guess 4v4 would be a nice change from L4D/2 Vs.
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Posted 07:59am 25/1/11
I'll buy my copy today...
Posted 09:48am 25/1/11
http://www.ozgameshop.com/xbox-360-games/dead-space-2-xbox-360
$45 if you want the PC version
http://www.ozgameshop.com/pc-games/dead-space-2-game-pc
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Posted 11:16am 25/1/11
Really would like to know this also, I found ds1 was good but totally ruined by my mouse being all 'floaty' and weird. Thats the only reason I wasn't excited about this one.
Posted 11:30am 25/1/11
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Posted 02:39pm 25/1/11
I want to play the 1st one before the 2nd one. Not goodinuff !
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Posted 05:30pm 25/1/11
hahaha, gold.
Fixah the first one is cheap as s*** and theres a $17 sale thing happening at EB atm (dunno about QLD), pick it up when you go and get ds2 :P
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Posted 01:23am 26/1/11
I'd buy this if that's the case. The case being all keys can be re-mapped.
Posted 09:17am 26/1/11
Americans are playing right now damnit!
Posted 09:41am 26/1/11
Posted 09:42am 26/1/11
controls were fine (mouse)
Posted 07:55am 28/1/11
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Posted 10:24am 28/1/11
So far I like++
Posted 10:27am 28/1/11
Also, I fully plan on playing it with a 360 controller. I played the first one on Xbox, and the controls felt great. It's not the kind of game I'd want to play with a keyboard and mouse. Haven't downloaded it yet though, plan to get it this weekend.
Posted 01:37pm 28/1/11
Anyone tried the multiplayer yet?
Posted 02:06pm 28/1/11
Posted 02:12pm 28/1/11
The system itself is to not allow for easy dismemberment - you need to feel overwhelmed and clunky the whole time, hence it being far more comfortable to play with a 360 controller on PC or just on the console in general
Posted 02:30pm 28/1/11
Posted 06:07pm 28/1/11
Super syched about DS2 and really wanna play it.
Posted 08:43pm 28/1/11
Like I said, don't really know if thats how it worked, but thats how it seemed to me, I always had a healthy collection of ammo for all the guns I was carrying at the time.
Posted 09:00pm 28/1/11
Might do it this weekend.
Posted 12:07am 29/1/11
EDIT - Ok straight away aiming is back to normal. In fact I was so used to DS1 sensitivity I had to reduce it from 50 down to 15. Also the way you can project that line onto the floor but also select what the line goes to is awesome, be it bench, store or obejective.
Oh, and it's doom 3 all over again.
Ok bit further in now, maybe about an hour and you sure get money and power nodes faster thats for sure. I'm not sure if this is really going to be hard or not though. I forget exactly what setting i'm on (think it was the 1 above normal) and i'm sheering off limbs in 1 hit so hope it gets harder or I may have to quit and redo the 1 1/2 hours or so I've put in on the hardest setting I can do.
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Posted 09:57am 29/1/11
I found the best strategy was to only buy two weapons, upgrade them to the max & sell any other ammo I happen to pickup.
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Also I hope there are many chapters because i'm flying through them. 3 hours played and 6 chapters done. Hope theres like 20 of them or something then i'll be happy. So far it's decent for $60 but sure wouldn't want to pay $90 - $100 for it.
Posted 04:18pm 29/1/11
Gun stats can be scene at 42 seconds.
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Posted 08:53pm 29/1/11
Still feel robbed that i payed $5 to hire it.....
Posted 09:22pm 29/1/11
From the Gaming-Age review and all I can say to that is, my arse. Maybe i'm just a tough bastard to scare but the kind of horror that DS2 offers isn't effective against me. Things that jump out, and loud noises very rarely frighten me. Ok so I admit there have been 3 things that made me jump but I prefer the japanese horror style that very few games have, where it's more about creating atmosphere than actually having things jump out at you. DS1 did this pretty well I think with it being rather quiet and heaving the claws and feet rustle around above you in the vents and hearing low growls.
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Posted 09:34pm 29/1/11
too bad, i liked the first one. something about isaac's attitude to his situation made him seem like an ideal chinese sweat shop worker
Posted 07:55am 30/1/11
Posted 09:49pm 30/1/11
is there similar problems in DS2 on the PC?
edit: oh thundercracker already made mention of this. carry on
Posted 07:40am 31/1/11
Spoiler:
I just finished Chapter 7 & I loved it - free falling through space, moving the solar array dishes etc.
The raptor monsters ('Clever Girl') scare the bejesus out of me. Thank Christ for detonator mines...
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Posted 10:48pm 31/1/11
You can't even remap the f*****g keys
Doesn't recognise the thumb buttons on a mouse.
and how the F*** do you get rid of lame arse 3rd person view?
Posted 10:52pm 31/1/11
Sounds like a game best played on a console with a controller.
Posted 11:31pm 31/1/11
Step lied to me :(
Posted 09:05am 01/2/11
Game is good.
Remapped my keys fine on PC. Just a shame you need so many different keys, I need it to be simplified.
Right Ckick target and hold, then press Kinetic while holding right button, now hold them both and target something now release left button.. all while running backwards from things that jump out at you. Ok, it's not that hard to do but still, I miss shoot them in the face with rocket, run to red.
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Posted 02:33pm 01/2/11
I was going to play on the 2nd hardest difficulty (not including hardcore) but I'm thinking of upping it, would this make the game better or worse?
Posted 03:07pm 01/2/11
And i constantly have no ammo, gets annoying with less than a clips worth in all my guns, usually not a problem when its one or two c****, but when they decide to give me a set piece where i am swarmed it gets annoying and is just a "reload til i find which spot to sit and spam" type situation.
Mouse control is fine on pc, pov is seems hugely zoomed in though which is my only real complaint about it's consoleness so far.
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Posted 04:52pm 02/2/11
gave it a whirl on ps3 last night, bout halfway through.. seems a mild improvement over the fist one at best so far. the first one didn't really compel me to bother finishing it at about the same point. i'd probably do the same here, but i may persevere with this one cause i got a nice new plasma tele and console games are a bit dry atm.
very generous score. to be honest, i never really dug the nectomorphs. this games quake 2 setting with awkward monsters somewhere between alien/res-evil, with slightly better than doom3 shiny graphics... but on a console, big screen, lights off, it does have a nice atmosphere.
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Posted 05:48pm 02/2/11
I've been watchin my bro play through it on Xbox (while I've been finishing up the first on steam) and it looks like much of the same,which is fine by me. If it ain't broke don't fix it.
Posted 06:49pm 02/2/11
Thought third but typed first.
I need a holiday.
Posted 06:58pm 02/2/11
Also don't like how you can own these monsters in the head and they still keep coming... yet 3 shots in the body and they drop. Or have super bad aim, shoot a leg and you're fine.
Posted 11:43am 04/2/11
I hope this is not going to be a trend in games cause I'll be farked. Maybe I'll just have to start getting used to "W" for move forward from now on :(
I'm 28 now and been playing this way since the release of Quake1 (14 years ago??) I believe this was the original config for quake 1? is it too late for me to change now? or has mouse 2 for move forward going to be embedded in my brain forever!?!?!
The other strange thing about my config is that keys "A" and "S" are swapped around so "A" is back and "S" is strafe left.. All this config strangeness came from one game, I think it was quake 1, could have been duke 3d, not sure and unfortunately just stuck with it.
Also as others have said here, mouse aiming is f*****g wack.
Posted 11:02am 21/2/11
Nope. Ultimate Doom series
(also "a" = aimup ["z" = aimdown] for original Duke3d)
Good luck with the internal key-remapping (I play original key configs regardless of how annoying it can be to avoid this very problem; also adaptability skill +1: memory skill +1: patience skill +1: config scripting skill -1)