The latest Game Informer has the scoop on Dead Space 2. The game, taking place on a space station called "Sprawl," is set three years after the events of the original Dead Space, and the developers claim it pushes the horror elements the first was known for even further.
Sprawl is much vastly larger than the Ishimura, where Dead Space took place. It has shopping malls, schools, churches, and a number of other environments new to the series. It's an "organic, haphazardly constructed, long-term place that’s built around the remaining shards of one of Saturn’s moon-The first planet-crack ever. Like any real city it is not all built by one person. Some stuff was built up, and some areas, corporate areas, government areas, and public areas," the magazine reads.
Facing formidable bosses and what seem like impossible situations, Isaac has a number of new characteristics and abilities. If he jumps too far away from a surface, he risks floating through space, but he can also re-orientate himself. And he talks in the game!
Multiplayer was also hinted at in the magazine, saying, "All I can say is it’s really fun, and you’ll get to strategically dismember your friends." Sounds intriguing.
[via VG247]
Don’t quote me on this, but I’m pretty sure there was also another multiplayer mode where you and a small group of friends (A.K.A. the survivors) try to beat the necromorph horde off, while trying to make your way to safety, trying to out-run the constant threat.
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