Dead Space 2
Dead Space 2 is one of those games that makes you say “wait, that has multiplayer – why?” The original Dead Space is one of the finest single-player survival horror games of the last ten years and relies heavily on tension. The game doesn’t boast such a fantastic campaign but it features many of the same themes and motifs that made the first game so great. Visceral Games would never have been able to replicate the tension and atmosphere of the single player in a multiplayer mode.
The multiplayer itself is very simple. It consists of team-based matches, broken down into two rounds each. The human team is tasked with completing a number of objectives whilst avoiding the enemy team. That’s all there is to it. As is the case with a number of titles on this list, multiplayer seems to have been shoehorned in so that the publisher could tick a box on the sales forecasts – something that happened a lot at the time.
