I'm at chapter 6 and so far it's a really good game. I absolutely adored the original dead space and I've been cautiously optimistic about this game. So far I'm really enjoying it. Lacks a bit of polish, but it's heart is in the right place. I think if they had a couple more months of testing it would've been better.
Some issues I've noticed thus far
1. getting hit by things not on screen...which is just lame. During some zero G parts I'll get hit by debris that's floating around that's not even directly in my field of vision. Sometimes the monsters do the same thing. Everyonce and a while my camera pans to the side (not under my control) and it will turn away from a mutant that was about to attack me, and he will still attack me, and get a couple of hits in before it pans back for me to kill him or he just "disappears". At one point I was fighting some mutants and then all of the sudden I turned to have a conversation with my allies, and a monster was still alive and hacking me up and I couldn't do anything about it. I actually just restarted the level since it was at the beginning of the stage.
2. Weapon balancing. The flame thrower is just the "win game now" gun. You get an assload of ammo for it at every turn, it burns through ammo pretty slow, it has like maximum stopping power since enemies just kind of fumble around while they are on fire, and oddly enough it seems to make you invincible if the enemy is on fire. I've had the crawling mutants run up to me and start attacking me with their tail, but it didn't hurt me at all because I was either shooting them with the flame thrower or they were on fire. Either way, if you have the flame thrower you just have to slowly sweep back and forth on the screen and you will never get hurt. I traded it out now because it was so cheap it was ruining the game for me. I hear that even on "impossible" difficulty the result is the same. The gun is just completely broken. On the other hand, why would anyone use the pistol? It feels useless compared to just about every other gun, including your infinite ammo nail gun that is supposed to be a last resort.
Over all though, it's a very enjoyable little romp through the dead space world. It's a nice compliment to the original, and it's really wet my appetite for Dead Space 2.
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