First, it is incredibly suited to cutting off limbs. The plasma cutter complements the combat in a few crucial ways. Sometimes, you’ll aim to slow an enemy down, and in other cases, you’ll try to cripple their means of attack. Players chose the right weak points and blow them off. The underlying rhythm of Dead Space‘s combat is percussive as a result. With precise aim, players can blast legs into chunks, disarm the creatures by dicing off their mandibles, and cut off heads. Conventional wisdom in an action shooter is to aim for the head, but necromorphs’ weak points are their limbs. While he isn’t a master of high-tech weaponry, he does understand tools and it just so happens that the plasma cutter is exactly what he needs. At first Issac isn’t armed with any of these he’s armed with a mining tool called a plasma cutter.

They are relentless and stand up to even the fiercest attacks from assault rifles and flamethrowers. Mere moments after stepping aboard, the team is attacked by shambling, bloody creatures called necromorphs. Issac Clarke is an engineer sent in with a small team to investigate the situation and repair the ship. The game focuses on an alien infestation aboard a mining ship called the Ishimura. We recently started a playthrough of Visceral Games’ 2008 sci-fi horror game Dead Space on Kotaku US‘ Twitch channel.

This story has been republished to coincide with the 10th anniversary of Dead Space’s Australian release.

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