There is a lot of explication about the Marker, for instance, which feels as fundamentally wrong-headed as giving 2001 a coda in which the Star Child turns to the camera and explains himself. This new expansiveness is not always appealing, though, and much less necessary. While the first Dead Space forced Isaac through a relatively constrictive gauntlet of crowded rooms and narrow hallways (save for a couple of truly frightening spacewalk sequences), Dead Space 2 unfolds within a larger and more open-seeming space station. Isaac is back in the sequel, of course, and so are the necromorphs. Playing Dead Space, I never felt as though I were Isaac, but I dearly wanted to protect him. Somehow, this silence gives Isaac a strange dignity, along with an affecting separateness. He screams, grunts, and yells, but when members of Dead Space’s small, doomed cast of auxiliary characters address Isaac, he does not respond. What you see, Isaac sees how you see it is how Isaac sees it. The submenu for objectives is not stashed away in some inventory screen it comes up organically, before Isaac himself, without stopping the game. Every bit of information you need to know about Isaac-how much ammunition he has left, how severe his injuries are, where he needs to go next-is displayed as part of his mining suit. It does so formally, internally, via its mechanics and interface. The game’s particular strength is the way it reinforces Isaac’s solitude and helplessness. Slaying these creatures requires forgoing the headshot and concentrating on blowing off any and all limbs, in what the game’s marketers refer to as “ strategic dismemberment.” Within the largely changeless march of video-game combat, dismembering space zombies was something of a revelation.īut Dead Space’s innovations extend beyond the capability to hack up enemies one arm at a time. Unfortunately for Isaac, the ship’s crew has been transformed into space zombies-necromorphs, in Dead Space parlance. The first Dead Space has a lot going for it, most notably its hero, Isaac Clarke (so named for the giants of science fiction, Asimov and Arthur C.).
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