The Arrival of Dead Space 2

Dead Space was the first Xbox 360 game I bought. When I first looked into open deep space while I was in a vacuum, I was in awe. The graphics were brilliant from this view. The planets and stars were impressively vivid, giving me a sense of wonder of what may be out there. On the flipside, this was a very gruesome game, where the true delight of playing it rested. The necromorphs were savage monsters that could only die by being ripped limb by limb. The most entertaining aspect to me personally was the atmosphere, constantly keeping me in suspense and struggling to stay alive and to be alert at all times. Then there is the ending which I thought was classic and worthy of the title sci-fi horror.

Dead Space received mixed reactions from various critics, people either loved it or thought it to be insignificant, merely a footnote in the reviews. To me, it was intense and exhilarating. The sequel arrives early next year, promising an improved experience and even a multiplayer mode. The multiplayer seems to have potential, pitting a team of humans against a team of necromorphs. Isaac Clarke's new suit is more polished and has more style. There are a greater variety of necromorphs as well as new weapons. Stasis and kinesis remain as they should. Isaac even has a voice this time around.

Please post your thoughts on Dead Space 2, positive or negative, I'd appreciate the feedback!

Premium Edition for me. Extraction would've been an excuse for me to use my Wii again, but I'd rather have it on PS3.

Excited for Dead Space 2. While I'll be focussing on singleplayer, I'm glad that the multiplayer is purely objective-based.

Dead Space made many attempts at survival horror before this look like crap, every aspect of this game was fine-tuned and polished, Dead Space is truly the best survival horror out there, still though I'm worried about Dead Space 2, two of the senior designers that helped make Dead Space the excellent title that it was are now working for Activision, and considering they're making it an action game instead of keeping it horror has me uneasy. Anyhow, yeah, Dead Space did get mixed reviews but part of that is because it's a new franchise breaking new ground and people need time to know what to thinklamprey263

I wouldn't say that Dead Space broke any new ground. The only original ideas in it were the anti-gravity sections and the in-character menus - other than that the game was pretty much System Shock 2 with Doom 3's scares.
I wouldn't say that it was a great horror game either - after the first hour the enemy locations became incredibly predictable (you could even tell when enemies were in the room because of the music), and by that point you were armed to the teeth with powerful weaponry anyway, so you almost never felt like you were in a situation that you couldn't handle. And the first hour wasn't all that scary to begi with.

Great game though.

Dead Space may not have broke new ground but I enjoyed it even more than System Shock & definitely more than Doom 3. Sure it lost its edge as a horror game halfway through or so but it was still intense & a great TPS the whole way through.