ghost haunted xbox 360 games Dead Island 2

Dead Space 2 doesn’t hold back, especially when it comes to death scenes, where many grisly fates unique to situations and monsters await you if you fail. Speedy Stalkers slink around cover before charging you when they believe they have an opening, childlike ones attack in high numbers to make up for their fragility, Pukers spray a substance that slows you down… and there are actual exploding babies. While body types are definitely a source for variation and carryovers from the first game like Lurkers crawl on walls to be harder to hit, Dead Space 2 introduces Necromorphs with new tactics and shapes to really make them feel distinct. Slicing off their legs, sword-like arms, and bladed tentacles requires good aim and adjustment to where you’re pointing as bodily damage changes how the creatures move. While you can eventually take one down by firing at them enough, your limited ammo instead encourages you to go for their weakness: dismemberment. Common across the creatures are their nasty necrotic flesh which makes them seem zombie-like, but you won’t be aiming at their heads with your weapons. The Necromorphs, which are reanimated human corpses twisted by parasitic aliens, take on many forms this time around, the game realizing many players will already be familiar with the concept from the first game and trying to twist human anatomy into new, sickening forms. “Macabre creativity” is perhaps the best way to describe Dead Space 2’s approach to horror.

There are still moments of quiet tension, but the bombastic moments are definitely the more memorable element, a fact made immediately explicit when just seconds before you take control of protagonist Isaac Clarke, you watch a man get brutally eviscerated by a Necromorph mere inches from your face. Dino Crisis 2 almost all but tossed its horror elements away for the action, and Resident Evil is constantly swinging back and forth between whether the survival horror or action are emphasized more, but Dead Space 2 doesn’t feel like it’s leaned too far into either side. There seems to be a trend in horror game sequels to go from more subdued, atmospheric survival horror to a more blood-pumping action-focused style.

Ghost haunted xbox 360 games Dead Island 2