Humans can take more punishment, but Necromorphs can choose from a vast amount of spawn points in the form of grates, enabling them to appear precisely where the humans are each time. The Necromorphs simply want to keep the humans from completing their objectives until time expires. The human team is given several mission objectives that vary between maps and a time limit to complete them. The humans control in exactly the same way that Clarke controls in the single-player campaign, but the Necromorphs effectively add an entirely new dimension to the gameplay. In this mode, each map consists of two teams, the humans versus the Necromorphs. This game marks the entry of multiplayer into the franchise. However, there is more to Dead Space 2 than the single-player campaign. This would have nurtured the suspense and let the player be scared by what doesn’t happen while letting the imagination run wild, which is often much more effective and less predictable. Dead Space 2 could have been much more frightening if the combat sequences occurred less often and were more dangerous and intimidating when they did come around, dispensing with the occasional throwaway “bang, bang, dead” enemy encounter. Much of this makes me yearn for the “less is more” approach. The single-player campaign will last roughly 12 hours, but once you are a few hours in, you’ve probably seen everything, and much of the fear factor is gone save for a few moments. And as the game progresses, enemies begin to come in droves, exchanging suspense for shooting galleries. And while Clarke’s unstable mind and delusions offer some unique scares when they come into play, they become repetitive and present themselves in virtually the same way every time. It will be very familiar, almost to the point of predictability. Because so many aspects of this game are similar to the original Dead Space, if you’ve played that, there won’t be many new scares in Dead Space 2. But while the atmosphere and the sound design mixed with the dismemberment combat mechanic creates quite the creepy setting, there are several missed opportunities that could have made this game a bit scarier.

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