![]() ![]() Issac then begins to piece together what has happened through audio and video logs scattered throughout the ship. After they arrive and our attacked by horrible monsters, Isaac’s crew are killed and he is the sole survivor. The CEC dispatched a small repair team (Isaac, an engineer and crew) to investigate. In the year 2507, the “USG Ishimura” a planetcracker starship, sends out a distress signal to the Concordance Extraction Corporation (CEC) during a mining operation on the planet “Aegis VII”. “Dead Space 2” needs you to know the story of the franchise, so it includes a “Previously on Dead Space” cutscene that wraps up the entire first game for you. That’s not to say that Visceral Games haven’t done anything to the franchise to keep interests sparked, (the addition of Multi-Player) but rather that they haven’t been bold enough to tinker with the ever so perfect formula of “Dead Space”. Protagonist Isaac Clarke’s grey roots seem to reflect that of the series ageing fast. No longer is it as fresh and exciting as it was when we first set foot on the “USG Ishimura” of “Dead Space”. Unfortunatly this leads to “Dead Space 2” feeling overly familiar for veterans of the first game. However Visceral Games & EA have avoided this black hole that seems to pull in so many promising IP’s over time, by keeping the core elements of “Dead Space” alive in “Dead Space 2”. Many sequels to once popular horror games fall flat with consumers usually due to a change in the formula of the game, until barely recognisable as the once terrifying experience it originally was. ![]()
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