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Dead Space 2 Launch Trailer Rocks Our World

The highly anticipated survival horror game is finally on store shelves. If you are an Xbox 360 owner, you owe it to yourself to play the newest installment in this excellent series. Just check out the video below for everything you need to know about Dead Space 2: thrills, kills and zero-g.

As in the first game, the player controls Isaac from a third-person point of view, looking over the character's right shoulder. Player health and stasis is shown by a visual indicators located on Isaac's back, which adds to the immersion in the game's frightening world. Isaac must fight an alien organism that infects and takes control of human corpses, turning them into "Necromorphs", mutating their bodies. Necromorphs must be dismembered as the alien organism controls host bodies via tentacles extending into their limbs.

The player may upgrade their weapons and armor at work benches, using nodes found throughout the game. In-game stores can also be accessed where the player may buy and sell various items and attain new weapons and suits.

Dead Space 2 offers five difficulty levels; Casual, Normal, Survivalist, Zealot and Hardcore, which is only unlocked once the game has been completed. Hardcore mode 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. There are no checkpoints in this mode.

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