Ammo, health, and currency are in short supply, leaving you constantly underpowered as you face enemies that can kill you in a few hits. Second, the first half of the campaign is insanely frustrating, unless you turn down the difficulty to Casual (which I, like any self-respecting gamer, refused to do). Seriously: The developers added a new hacking mini-game and hired a voice actor for Isaac, and we're supposed to pretend they revolutionized the survival-horror genre? If I were shown a random minute of gameplay footage, I'm not sure I could tell which game it came from. Some of the reusing is downright lazy, including taking us back to the Ishimura for part of the game and having the same protagonist improbably lead a second large-scale alien massacre. Most of the weapons and enemies are the same, the process of upgrading your machinery is no different, and the environments give one a sense of deja vu.
This is a 70/100, 75 at most.įor starters, virtually nothing has changed about the single-player gameplay. It's certainly not a game that deserves a perfect score. But this isn't a 90/100 game, not even close. The graphics are great, the storytelling is far better than we've come to expect from video games, and the limb-shearing idea hasn't become any less fascinating since the original game. To be sure, Dead Space 2 has a lot going for it. But another reason is that Dead Space 2 was overrated to begin with. Partly, the difference in the scores happened because the DLC isn't as good as the game.
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Oh, and that 90? It includes seven perfect scores, as well as a 94 from your very own Cheat Code Central. According to Metacritic, game journalists gave Severed a 56/100, compared with the 90 they gave the full-length game. Now that Dead Space 2's first DLC pack is out, critics' adulation for the franchise has cooled a bit.