Space ain't so dead anymore...

When you think of space horror, the alien franchise springs to mind, with it's "in space, no one can hear you scream" tagline. We gamers have our own version, Dead Space.

I never played the first game, but playing through the second was a mind blowing experience, the enemies are unique, in that you have to remove limbs to kill them, and even then some of them won't go down straight away. Headshots can even have little effect, as it causes the unfortunate necromorph to swing it's arms erratically, or simply vomit straight from the neck in the case of the chunder ones. Luckily most of the hallways are fairly wide so you have space to maneuver, a good indication of how hard the first game was, when you enter the Ishimura. The hallways are unbelievably narrow, being around a person and a half wide, sometimes 2. You sit there, walking down these narrow corridors and for a good ten minutes, absolutely nothing happens, even so you are absolutely cacking yourself, expecting something terrifying to happen at every corner.

The story picks up three years after the events on Aegis 7, with Isaac waking up in a station on the largest moon of Saturn, Titan, you are woken by a man who is quickly turned into a necromorph right infront of you, so doesn't undo your straight jacket. This means you have to leg it, while still stuck in said jacket of straight, this makes the first ten minutes or so quite a tense experience. The story thickens as Isaac slowly goes insane seeing visions of his dead girlfriend Nicole, haunting him since he touched the marker. We soon find out that Tiedmann, the director of the facility has been accessing the areas of mister Clarkes brain that have been imprinted with the marker codes, blueprints if you will, and has created an enormous marker, much like the original on Aegis 7.

You eventually reach the marker, with your visions of Nicole that recently started working with you, suddenly turn on you again, and you are thrust into a battle within your own mind, destroying the marker in your mind by the end of it, which causes the actual marker to die, so the necromorphs cease to exist anymore. You escape with Ellie, your only remaining ally, and the game ends with a nice tip towards a sequel.

All in all, if you want a game that will cause you to shit yourself almost constantly, but still have a great gaming experience, I can recommend nothing better than Dead Space 2. Keep on rocking Isaac.