He is also contacted by another patient, Nolan Stross, claiming he and Isaac can destroy the Marker, which Hans Tiedmann, the station's administrator, forced them both to rebuild after finding Isaac adrift. He is later contacted by a woman named Daina Le Guin who guides him to her location. However, before he can remove the straitjacket, Franco is slaughtered by the Infector variant of the Necromorphs and immediately mutates into a Necromorph, leaving Isaac to escape on his own. The game begins in an asylum on the Sprawl, a densely populated space station surrounding a shard of Titan, one of Saturn's moons.Isaac Clarke has no memory of the last three years, having just been released by Franco Delille, a technician and the protagonist of Dead Space Ignition. The necromorphs on the other hand, unlock improvements to their current abilities as well as bonuses to health or damage.

New weapons and improvements can be unlocked through level progression, along with different colored suits for the humans. Each playable human character has two weapons in their arsenal. Multiplayer mode pits two four player teams of Human and Necromorph against each other, similar to the multiplayer systems of Left 4 Dead and Left 4 Dead 2. It can only be played from a fresh start and the player is limited to three saves in the entire game, with ammunition, health, supplies and credits being very difficult to find, and enemies are very challenging. Hard Core mode is unlocked once the game has been completed. The player encounters zero-G environments, where Isaac is capable of maneuvering with thrusters attached to his suit.ĭead Space 2 offers five difficulty levels Casual, Normal, Survivalist, Zealot and Hard Core. In-game stores may be accessed where the player may buy and sell various items and attain new weapons and suits through the acquisition of schematics found throughout the levels. The player may upgrade their weapons and armor at work benches, using power nodes found throughout the game. The player acquires two modules a 'stasis' module, allowing the player to slow down enemies or objects, allowing for otherwise insurmountable moving obstacles such as active heavy machinery to be slowed down, allowing Isaac to safely pass, and the 'kinesis' module, which allows Isaac to manipulate objects and machinery telekinetically.

Isaac must fight an alien organism that infects and takes control of human corpses, turning them into 'Necromorphs', mutating their bodies. Player health and stasis are shown by visual indicators on Isaac's back. The game features no HUD, relying on holograms projected from the player character and his weapons to show information such as messages and ammunition count, respectively. The player controls Isaac Clarke from a third-person point of view, looking over the character's right shoulder. Dead Space 2 is a survival horror third-person shooter.

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