“Dead Space 2″ demo walkthrough

If you’ve got an Xbox, and you’re like me, then you’ve probably already downloaded the demo for the forthcoming Dead Space 2. As a big fan of the original game, I was eager to see what the sequel might be like, and I’m glad to report that it looks really promising.

That said, I do worry that the sheer difficulty of it might prevent a lot of casual gamers from getting into a game that could otherwise become one of their favourites. One of the great things about the Dead Space series, aside from the fact that it’s completely terrifying, is that it’s also quite challenging. In this day and age, that’s a rather rare thing.

So in the spirit of easing fellow gamers into what could end up being their new favourite game, I whipped up a simple walkthrough for the demo. You’re welcome!

1. Walk down the darkened hallway, ignoring the flickering lights and the ominous musical score.

2. Continue walking through several similar hallways with no obvious danger in sight, doing your best not to let the tension mount as you walk past discarded limbs and dried splashes of blood on the walls.

3. Soon, as you enter a new room that looks a lot like all the others, your character will experience a loud, horrifying hallucination. Let it pass, bearing in mind all the while that you’re safe at home, and a video game can’t hurt you.

4. Proceed through the next few hallways, fighting a couple of howling monsters as you go. Careful! Their gore will be acidic, and it will splash all over you, prompting a reaction that’s equal parts “Neat!” and “Oh, my God!”

5. Take a breath in the next room while they make you do a bunch of anti-gravity puzzle stuff that nobody really cares about. It may not be very exciting, but once you’ve completed it and progressed to the next area, the part of the game in which nothing out of a Lovecraft novel was trying to kill you will quickly come to seem like a golden age.

6. Take the elevator up to the creepiest church you’ve ever seen, take a few steps inside, and immediately get knocked on your ass by a gigantic space monster.

7. Scream “Jesus Christ, what the hell is that thing?” If you’ve got a drink or a bowl of snacks sitting nearby, feel free to knock it over in panic.

8. Fire at the gross, disgusting pouch full of glowing yellow gore on one of the space monster’s tentacles. Keep firing until it explodes and the space monster releases you. This will no doubt take several terrifying attempts.

9. Once you’ve killed the space monster, you’ll be spotted by the reanimated corpse of a dead human toddler, who will scream like an unholy banshee and summon literally a couple of dozen other dead baby monsters to chase you. It will honestly be the scariest thing you’ve ever seen in your life.

10. Get killed, obviously, and try again. Take note that the dead baby monster’s scream is different every time, preventing you from ever fully getting used to it. For fun, try to guess which particular variation you’ll hear for weeks in your nightmares.

11. Get killed another forty or fifty times, progressing no further than you did on your first attempt.

12. Turn your console off.

13. Cover your face with your hands and weep softly.

14. Get caught weeping by your wife. Make up some excuse that sounds a lot more masculine than crying because you were playing a scary video game.

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