Why everyone should play Dead Space 2 – PC, PS3, Xbox 360

EA and Visceral Games have brought to life one to the most tense, atmospheric experiences on any platform and if one is a fan of horror, then this game is not one to miss

When people think of the word horror, their mind automatically goes towards the Exorcist, the Grudge, Paranormal Activity or if you are in Pakistan, a second term as President for Asif Ali Zardari.

Yet, there is an experience that is more involving, interactive and terrifying than all of those, well apart from the Zardari bit, even thinking about it gives me the chills.

Many may consider video games to be a medium aimed at keeping children busy; however, if one was to remove the veil of stereotyping, they will realize that a large number of games are aimed at ages 20 years old and above; that too for good reason.

One such game is Dead Space 2, which is the follow up to the original, Dead Space, which made grown men jump in their seats and sent controllers flying.

The game is set on in the distant future where mankind has settled on other planets and moons, and an engineer, Isaac Clarke, wakes up to find his worst nightmare has come back to life.

Without giving too much of the nail-bitingly fantastic story away, the main character has to survive the latest outbreak, while at the same time trying to determine friend from foe.

If all of that was not enough the player is constantly haunted by hallucinations of his dead wife and visions of some pretty scary stuff.

The enemies the player will encounter in the game each bring their own level of terror; they will either hunt in packs or stalk you, some can take a large number of hits before going down or are extremely agile and difficult to hit.

Yet all of them have the potential to wet the player’s pants at any second, and that is not an understatement.

Let me just put it this way, the game does not have an easy tutorial mission so players can used to the game. It dumps you in the middle of the action in a straight-jacket and tells you to run for your life. Something that you will continue to do for the
rest of the terrifying game.

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Posted by Musa Afridi on Feb 11 2012. Filed under Entertainment. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry