Someone To Drive You Home

While I finished the first Dead Space I wasn’t too excited about the sequel. The first game traded in isolation, busy work, backtracking and tank controls. If you think resident evil in space with a better story and controls you’d be on the right track. It was in no way a bad game but not exactly my cup of tea. The sequel goes a long way to improving on the first and is pretty much successful in every way.

First off the controls are greatly improved having the ability to use telekinesis on a pole and have a gun out so you can poleaxe the first necromorph you see then start putting rounds into the second never gets old. It also means you don’t feel as stressed, you’ve got options running out of ammo stasis a bad guy shoot off his pincer and TK the sharp end back at him. The slant towards action means you don’t feel as threatened but that’s totally fine with me some people might say this is in congress with the main character (Isaac Clarke) being a engineer but at this point he’s been through the events of the first game.

Intact Clarke is much more of a character in DS2 you see his face at numerous times in the game and the range of emotions displayed in the animations is impressive (although it’s mostly him being mentally and physically broken). The story goes some cool places and I might pick up one of the books this is in contrast to the first game that had a lot of what is to be done rather than why. The characters are pretty well fleshed out and likeable (although the main bad guys motives where never really explained in my two play throughs).

People will tell you it’s a short game which is true. My first run on normal took about 8 hours with finding all the logs and exploring. My second run on hard was about four and a half hours but that was with the powered up guns on a new game+ run.

There’s a multiplayer mode but I didn’t touch it so I can’t vouch for it. All in all I’d recommend it on a rental or for cheap its a well produced fun jaunt.

In other news I’ve swapped to lovefilm for my rentals and so far so good. The reason I left swapgame was the turn around time for shipping games back was getting worse. With me waiting over a week to get items sent out despite having quite a few things on my list. Thus far lovefilm have been pretty good so here’s hoping. I’m a bit sad about leaving swapgame as I thought someone who specialised in games only would be better that a general rental company or at least cheaper but seems I was wrong.