It returns for Dead Space 2, where Isaac has to construct one from a surgery tool, and it's still one of his best weapons. Despite being Isaac's default weapon in Dead Space, and basically his equivalent of a handgun, it remains useful throughout the entire game, and there's even an achievement for only using the plasma cutter during a playthrough. Like the name implies, the plasma cutter shoots blasts of plasma and was intended for precision cutting. Throughout the first game he mostly used makeshift weapons to stay alive, including his trusty plasma cutter. Isaac Clarke followed in the tradition of survival horror heroes like Silent Hill's Harry Mason by not being a badass soldier or cop, and instead, he's an engineer who is forced to fight back. Dead Space 2 is still a great follow-up that builds on the fountain set by the original while retaining the same levels of tension and atmosphere.
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Related: Can We Please Get Another Dead Space Game?ĭead Space 3 wasn't satisfying to followers of the series or critics, and it's underperformance appears to have killed the franchise. Sadly, even the robust sales numbers for the second game failed to meet the publisher's expectations, with Dead Space 3 basically becoming a generic action title that sanded off the edges that made the series unique. EA was pushing to make the series a big seller so it was accompanied by spinoff titles like the Wii's Dead Space: Extraction, comics, novels and even anime movies like Dead Space: Downfall. Isaac dusked off his dismemberment tools for Dead Space 2, which upped the amount of explosive setpieces and added lots of gruesome new enemies. It basically played like a mix of Resident Evil 4 and Event Horizon and is a horror gem. Dead Space was billed as new survival horror franchise and saw protagonist Isaac Clarke trapped on a spaceship infested with creatures dubbed necromorphs. Resident Evil 4's pivot towards action led to a trend of gunplay over tension and was a major influence on the likes of Uncharted: Drake's Fortuneand Gears Of War. The original Dead Space arrived in 2008 at a strange time for the survival horror genre. Dead Space 2's plasma cutter is one of gaming's most useful default weapons.