Dead Space 2 Collector's Edition

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this is a warning to anyone who is on the fence about shelling out an extra $20 for this...don't! i am a sucker for collector's editions of games, so when i saw Dead Space 2 had one i immediately pre-ordered it. this is seriously the worst CE i've ever purchased. the replica plasma cutter is, as someone else said, a glorified happy meal toy. personally i wouldn't have minded the size of it (my shelf space is getting sparse) but the detail is HORRIBLE. it's basically a hunk of cheap gray plastic with some splotches of brown and black. the least they could have done was include the batteries. and the rest of goodies do not make up for it. the lithograph is basically a postcard with a single piece of concept art. soundtrack is okay i guess. the suit and force gun are cool, but they definitely don't justify an $80 price tag. please, take it from someone who has purchased A LOT of collector's editions: this is NOT worth it. just get the standard edition. take that extra 20 and go to applebee's for dinner or something lol.

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I am fairly new to the franchise having jumped on the DS bandwagon last December of 2010. I instantly fell in love with DS the first moment I popped it in my PS3 and didn't stop playing until I platniumed just a couple of days ago before the DS2 release.

Now, I bought the DS/CE because of the DLC only because I am going straight into the zealot difficulty and want the most help that I can get. The plasma cutter replicate is nothing to write home about as it is small, dinky, and the led lights didn't work when I pulled the trigger. Pretty lame if you ask me. The lithograph is kinda cool, but forgettable after about one minute and the soundtrack is kinda cool I guess, but I don't listen to classical music so it was quickly forgotten about.

The zealot force gun and the zealot suit are pretty frickin' cool. I kinda hate that is where my extra $20 dollars went, but I am happy. The zealot suit looks like the suit you would get from the store from the demo, only it's got all the crazy marker scribblings all over it. It's not a level 5 suit, so I will have to upgrade to something else eventually, but for right now it serves it's purpose. Well, the force gun is the force gun and it has helped out so far in tight spots where necromorphs spawn all at once from every direction. I am pretty sure the plasma cutter would have sufficed, but more damage would probably have been taken if not for the force gun blowing all the baddies away!

The game itself is awesome. I have made it to chapter 4 rather quickly, now that I think about it. The chapters have gone by pretty quickly, compared to the first DS where a chapter could take about an hour or two. In DS2 I have made it to chapter 4 in the same amount of time. I hope not all the chapters run by this quickly.

The graphics are phenominal compared to the first game as DS2 supports 1080p! Everything from character design, level design, body parts and blood spatters are very detailed and look quite excellent!

The controls are more streamlined this time around, where single button pushes will restore stasis, health, and ammo.

Isaac has a more central role this time around, he actually speaks! He is also haunted by his memories and guilt that are associated with his girlfriend. The marker has also infected his mind with dementia, so his bag is a few marbles short.

Online multiplayer is not my thing unless the online is grouped into a campaign with substance and not just shooting at things for the sake of just shooting at things. So I have no opinion on that matter, but I am quite relieved that there are no trophies associated with the mulitplayer because then that would force me to play multiplayer just to attain the trophies.

I hate that I am writing a review without playing the whole game, but I am just so excited about this game that I had to tell someone to something! All in all, I know this will be a satisfying gaming experience.

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Ok, so I just beat the whole game this morning (1/28/2011) and seriously, this was a thrill right from the beginning! The pacing of the game was greatly improved on, and not one time was there a lag or load time from one chapter to another. there were a few instances that I didn't even know that I had progressed into the new chapter because of the action and fast pace of some of the sequences.

There are a total of 15 chapters and some are much longer than others; one chapter in particular took me maybe 2 hours to complete, so my fear of the game going by too fast dissipated rather quickly.

I may have started playing mid-night on 1/25/2011 and finished 8 am 1/28/2011, but that's because I dedicated all my free time to playing this game... it's so good that I could not peel myself away until I completed the whole thing!

There is a lot of replay value here, especially if you're a trophy whore like me, but if there were no trophies to collect I would still re-play this game because it is that great.

I am not a multi-player fan, but just out of curiosity I did try it out and I actually enjoyed it more than I thought I would. There are objectives to complete and it's not just a shoot 'em up for no purpose and playing as a necromorph is pretty fun. I only played through, like maybe, 3 online matches and leveled up once, but it was fun and I may play some more in the future.

there are a lot of sequences in this game, whereas there were none in DS1. The sequences are pretty spectacular and varied as none of them repeat one another and really make you want to jump out of your seat because they're so awesome! I don't want to give any spoilers, but there is one sequence that really stood out to me that involves a needle and an eye and that is all that I will say.

The PS3 version does play in 1080p even though on the description of the game says 1080i, I think that may have been a type-o, but my television reads and displays the game in 1080p.

There are also a lot of surprises and twists in the storyline that will have fans who love a great story frothing at the mouth (in a good way), and keep them guessing on what is going to happen next.

If anything, this was a satisfying gaming experience and the quality that Visceral and EA put into the franchise is outstanding. I can only hope that they continue to pump out such quality titles in the future. A++++++ would do business with again.

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Dead Space 2 is an amazing action-packed horror edge of your seat thrill-ride. The game's pacing has changed alot, for the better and still not once did I feel like I could let my guard down. The tension is high and the action thematic scenes take your breath away, not knowing what's going to come at you next makes you feel like your surely fighting for your life. This game is epic and buying this game is well worth your hard earned money (even in this economy). I'm not going to go over story, graphics, controls and sound. I'll leave that to other reviews and big time game companies; my 5 Star rating should speak for itself and if that's not enough, lets just say I'd give it 100 Stars if I could. The collector's edition (I purchased because I loved Dead Space and own other collectibles and games from the series), for an extra 20 dollars and getting the plasma cutter is really not that bad as other reviews state. I mean what do you expect, a REAL-LIFE PLASMA CUTTER! Besides, I'm not going to run around playing with it like a toy.... in public :) It's a cool little replica plasma cutter that requires a tiny screw driver and AAA batteries that'll power it to shoot out the wrong color light (which is GREEN?, not BLUE), I really can't complain. I have the soundtrack it comes with downloaded onto my ZUNE and it sounds awesome. The lithograph is cool. The unitology suit code is an awesome add-on from the get-go after surviving a truly helpless and dreadful situation. And last but not least, you get Dead Space: Extraction, a game previously released for the Nintendo Wii. It has a great story and is ABSOLUTELY worth playing; PlayStation Move compatible but I'd rather use my thumbs for the controller versus, I don't like my arms getting tired waving around a remote, I like to be old school aka lazy. All in all, this is definitely a great and well made game that leaves you with some questions answered from Dead Space and through the story of Dead Space 2, but leaves you with even more questions.... will be waiting in the meantime for Dead Space 3.

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I wasn't originally on the Dead Space wagon. In fact, I originally thought of the whole series as rather gimmicky. There's nothing inherently good about being the most brutal thing out there. I'm into games for the fun, which to me seems like a pretty reasonable and obvious motivation. In any case, after playing Dead Space a solid 6 months after its release (if not longer), I was suitably impressed to pre-order the special edition because I just had to get my hands on a plasma cutter.

Now I think everyone would agree that the special edition here is a giant pile of garbage if your motivation is the plasma cutter. I was hoping for some reasonably neat full-sized reproduction in resin. What they give you is probably not worthy of a children's toy, at least not one that I would have played with as a kid, though it is peculiarly--we'll say coincidentally--the size maybe an 8 year old would find comfortable. Lets not get into implications that EA is trying to sell ultra violent video games to minors.

That said, don't buy this for minors.

You get a soundtrack with this game, or at least the special edition. I played it for one of my friends as we drove to lunch. Its a predictable mess of percussion, shrill violins, and distorted brass. Unless you like to drive around in the creepy car, you probably won't ever listen to this.

The content of the game is actually fairly predictable. There haven't been a lot of changes since the last game. It starts out pretty strong introducing you to Isaac all over again, explaining his whereabouts and progressing you up the weapon chart again. There's not much to speak of new in the weapon arena either. This actually wouldn't be such a bad thing, considering that most of the time when they try to build on games like this, they do a lot of things wrong. This game isn't immune to this. There are some flaws, but there have been larger screw-ups in the past. All the same monster types are back. I am surprised they didn't do variations on a theme in this case. The exploding arm guys always have their left arm exploding. Predictable. The darker the skin color the tougher they are. No change there. I'd have wished these guys took a page out of Fatal Frame 2's book, and just made a few more subtle differences. The pacing is generally predictable. Basically every room that feels like it has a monster has one. Here they could have taken a page from Jaws or Silent Hill. Sometimes that which is not seen is more frightening than what is seen.

I did imply that I felt this game did some of what it did that was 'new' in a 'wrong' sort of way. The monster designers added very few monsters to the mix--unfortunate--and what they did add, they seemed to do to try to target more your basic human decency rather than your sense of fear. Shooting exploding babies and crazy vampire children is a mite bit distasteful. Ultimately, thats just a gimmick, and one I would say exists more out of a lack of creativity than anything else. I'm playing this game to feel scared, not just dirty, right?

In any case, I won't ruin the one or two other creatures in there that actually kind of fit in. The game goes on for almost as long as Dead Space, culminating in a very intense closing sequence. I have to say that I really enjoyed the last chapter of this game, even if the middle was brought down by a lack of class. The frantic nature of it actually hinted that they did know what they were doing to a degree.

I don't want to seem too negative though. The game is solid if you can get over the fact that it makes you do things you should probably feel bad about, and ultimately it ends. The visuals are impressive, as you'd expect, and maybe even a little more-so than the last installment, and it feels mostly gratifying to beat the game.

Even more stuff! Yes, Dead Space Extraction is in here too. This is kind of cool because if you didn't own a Wii, you didn't get to play this. What is also cool is that this is really one of the best Move titles out there. It is especially enjoyable if you have a sharpshooter. I have to admit that I played the entire game and was perhaps a bit let down by all that was Dead Space 2. I didn't feel that I had raised the bar much, if at all, in terms of my expectations, and what changes there weren't always a step in the right direction. Playing Dead Space Extraction was actually remarkably fun, especially since when I first loaded it up, I had a much different reaction (aka WTF?!?).

Now this game genre hasn't gotten a lot of attention, so I do have to admit, the rail shooter or 'House of the Dead' style game still has some novelty to me. For those of you who don't quite understand what I mean, for the most part, you don't have control over where your character is looking in this game. You control the aim point on the screen and you use your guns to shoot stuff and your telekinesis module to grab things.

What I did like was how well written the whole thing seemed to be. It was very much like being thrust into a 5 or 10 hour movie. Yes, I had very limited control over my character, but the game did do a good job always giving you something to do, even if it was just collecting logs, ammo, and power ups. Voice acting was generally good, and the characters were actually more likable than average video game fare. The only disappointment with this game is that it exposes how formulaic the writing for Dead Space really is. I can live with that, I suppose, I just hope when there's a Dead Space 3, and there will be, that they shore up some of these flaws, and maybe don't go with the same ending a 4th time.

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First off, if you haven't played the first dead space, why are you still sitting here? GO PLAY IT! Dead Space was a sleeper hit a couple of years ago and EA has been able to turn a dead space into a franchise. Seriously though, while you don't need to have played the first one to enjoy dead space 2, there are some inside jokes you will only get if you played the first one.

This game is a high quality singe player experience that is very linear but that is not really a bad thing in this case. The developers have done an amazing job at creating a universe where you're constantly looking over your shoulder. By the end of the game, it was almost instinct that whenever you killed a monster, you would always look behind you to see if there was another one. I dont' really want to get into the single player because there would be a lot of spoilers. Just know that this game is a cinematic ride that feels like a movie and there are some set pieces in this story that will make your jaw hit the floor. If you ever liked the old resident evil games or any survival horror, this game is for you!

The game also comes with multilayer but it leaves something to be desired. Its "just ok" with it not being horrible, but its not good enough to keep me coming back for more. This is one of those games where you rely on your team mates to win and if you've ever played online before, you know the vast majority of the people out there have no idea what they're doing. YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO WIN GAMES SINGLE HANDILY. There are no trophies associated with multilayer and you really only get access to the guns you'd use in single player. The only thing really pushing you to play more is you get cooler suits, which isn't much.

The PS3 version also comes with the award winning Dead Space: Extraction port from the Wii. This is a prequel to dead space 1 and its very good. I would advise to have the Move controller for this though its not required (please note you only need the wand, and not the sub controller). I'm not going to spend a lot of time on this because you can go check out better reviews for this game itself. Just know that its good and its nice to see this thrown in the PS3 package. Please note there will be DLC planned for Dead Space 2 that will follow the characters from this game so its a good idea to familiarize yourself with the story if you want the full experience.

The collectors edition is pretty cool but there isn't that much included in it that's worth the extra cash. The sound track is pretty crappy since its not actually music but just a bunch of "scary" sounds so you won't be listening this on your iPod or in your car. The lithograph is basically a thick piece of paper with some art work on it, pretty disposable. The two centerpieces of the CE is the gun which is kinda small, and you'll need batters, but its still cool to have leaning against your PS3 or whatever. You also get a couple of guns and a piece of armor earlier in the game which helps A LOT. Overall it may not be worth it to the casual fan but to people who truely love Dead Space, i'd still recommend picking up.

In conclusion, a lot of people skipped over Dead Space 1 and didn't play it, don't make the same mistake for this one!!