DEAD SPACE 2 (Zero Punctuation)

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This week, Zero Punctuation reviews Dead Space 2.
Fast-talking Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw reviews a new game each week in this animated series that combines informed critique with cutting humor. Watch the next episode of Zero Punctuation a week early, only on The Escapist.
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[@dmcmahondm]

"I love mommy and being alive" same

[@TheReZisTLust]

Ah i see your not a millenial with your wanting to be alive & all

[@CERTAIND00M]

"MY BLOOD ALL INSIDE ME" was genius.

[@superdaveozy7863]

I just enjoy Dead Space for the ability to use a flamethrower to simulate John Carpenters "The Thing"

[@mrblackdx]

I Enjoy John Carpenters "The Thing"... I don't enjoy Dead Space

[@davidgeronimo4472]

+Isaac Clarke fat

[@davidgeronimo4472]

Productive have a nice day.

[@Paul939]

The flamethrower is improved in DS2, but yeah an upgraded plasma cutter is practically the only weapon you need for the whole game.

[@beastsalamence843]

Ben Quinn same

[@KineticGTR]

Say what you want about how predictable and cheesy some of the "horror" aspects of this is. But I damn near shit myself the first time one of those big ass, twitching, speed demon necromorphs came at me!

[@kerianhalcyon2769]

+KineticGTR Dead Space 2 was fun like that. I considered a lot of it an improvement to the original; new monsters, some variety in the old ones, and definitely great in its revelations in the plot. I do agree with some people that it wasn't quite as scary as people were looking for but then again when is a zombie shooter scary? That's pretty much what Dead Space is...and I consider Necromorphs superior to zombies.

[@zyad48]

i'll admit sometimes startles carry a ton of impact if done right doesnt mean I find dead space or dead space 2 scary, but the times it does get me to jump are pretty good

[@kerianhalcyon2769]

Zyad48 - The Warrior of Evil Oh definitely. Anymore I don't find Dead Space scary. It is creepy, yes. Some of the concepts are frightening to think of. But it's my guilty pleasure enjoying both the games and the film adaptations that followed it. (Mostly because I have a Space Hulk/Space Zombie kind of fetish, but that's just me XP)

[@zyad48]

Halcyon Industries film adaptations? this I gotta see

[@kerianhalcyon2769]

They're animated. Downfall is the better of the two, Aftermath was less of an adaptation and more of a way to try and publicize the second game and get a few animation studios some extra money. But Downfall's a nice precursor to the first game in league with Extraction more or less.

[@Spongeman18]

I laughed so hard when he was talking about the first 5 mins in the game. ''Look at me are you scared yet? AHHHHHHHH''

[@reecelongden3500]

"Everyone's about as attatched to their limbs as that mountain climber bloke..." ... Harsh, Yahtzee... Harsh...

[@greywalker505]

“Ever see 127 Hours? Spoiler alert.” A summary of Dead Space 2.

[@spunklord5000]

0:43 Playing the game with this in mind makes the ambushes far funnier than they have any right to be

[@EldritchAugur]

Dead Space 2 is one of my favorite games, that being said everything said here is true. I know it's not scary, I know it's not subtle, but is it fun? Absolutely, straight up the most satisfying combat ever in a game.

[@whiskeysour1655]

Dyomaeth My opinion is that the first was Horror but two and three were the furthest thing from it but still weren't bad games overall.

[@whiskeysour1655]

Dyomaeth Yeah I agree with you right there

[@conlanlafreniere6024]

You have a Fallout prof pic and are putting all your eggs into the Dead Space basket?

[@EldritchAugur]

Conlan LaFreniere I said it had fun combat, and is one of my favorite games. I don't have a favorite game, I have favorites.

[@conlanlafreniere6024]

***** i just found logic on the internet? *circles calender*

[@dovahspy9813]

"Lifts his hat more than a victorian gentleman in the lingerie department" You sir, get the award for best analogy in history.

[@PonzooonTheGreat]

The land of chocolate lesbians......

[@henrygeoghegan815]

PonzooonTheGreat With jetpacks!

[@PonzooonTheGreat]

:D

[@TheFluffyWendigo]

PonzooonTheGreat that's lesbians covered in chocolate not made from chocolate they'd melt the second things got interesting

[@henrygeoghegan815]

Jared Lancaster What if the entire area was in a giant chocolate, lesbian obviously, fridge keeping the chocolate lesbians with chocolate jet packs at a cool 5 degrees Celsius

[@TheFluffyWendigo]

wine me drunk me clumsy sex me :P

[@danielschroedinger2090]

Anyone who has ever experienced women around chocolate would know what a vicious, terrifying place the land of chocolate lesbians would be. Sure it starts with licking, but soon enough they just rip each other to shreds till one of them becomes the chocolate canibal queen and looks like jabba the hut.

[@danielschroedinger2090]

Then again... i agree: this would make for quite a decent horror setting. Imagine a group of girl stranded in a strange dimension that turns them into chocolate. Then watch disturbing violent sexyness unfold.

[@ven9287]

what did i just read

[@merrittanimation7721]

D:

[@gregormcscrungus9727]

That sounds like someones fetish. I'm going to guess it probably is.

[@DatBoi-mo9vc]

Nowadays they already all look like jabba the hutt, so it all comes down to whoever can hobble fastest around. Diabetes, diabetes never changes would be the intro, and then it would be unanimous screams of "quit oppressing me!!!!" Echoing in the distance.

[@red_cosplay]

So... how do you know about the difficulty of severing a limb with an ice skate?

[@Never_heart]

Valikdu If you have to ask he has some unique past-times. Personally I prefer baby soccer

[@nerdstormgamerx3333]

Hmmmmm.....?

[@thegloriouswizard5270]

GeakGuySheldon Oh, I've heard about that. I'm more of a baby tennis kinda person.

[@Never_heart]

Hiro Fedora I have recently started a new past time called, "Press X to Not Die" the meta-edition those cops have yet to figure it out

[@thegloriouswizard5270]

GeakGuySheldon Clever. I've been using the "Shift the blame" strategy.

[@calloftreyarch]

"Stab* plop away we go.."

[@WillRapForFood1]

In all honesty I absolutely loved Dead Space 1 and 2. The story really had you thinking at many parts and I didn't really think the combat got old. Sure it may have been a little cliche and predictable at some parts but that that was fine to me. Not to mention, the sound in both games are brilliant at setting a creepy and desolate atmosphere.

[@quintinbenkovitz6295]

Especially in the begining of chapter 11 in Dead Space one you see all of those dead unitoligists and if you listen closely you can hear twinkle twinkle little star

[@WillRapForFood1]

Quintin Benkovitz Ch. 11 was one big NOPE fest

[@quintinbenkovitz6295]

Hell yeah

[@Never_heart]

try Silent Hill 4 or The Suffering. deeper and more elaborate plot constantly making you wonder what if anything is real. yes the end of DS1 had some psychological aspects but not enough and ONLY at the end

[@landochabod7]

I think that's chapter 10 actually, the one when you get trapped in the room with bunk beds with the Hunter. I remember it being particularly intense. Chapter 11 was back on the flight deck.

[@nephi-odandy9728]

dead space may not be scary in the sense that it instills terror, but it is scary in the sense that the monsters are horrendous, and they are out to get you in the most creepy, disgusting ways.

[@MegaGanash]

+Nephi-O Dandy The difference between horror and terror is tangible. Yahtzee has ardently stated how much he prefers terror.

[@ldmt1995]

If you really take the time to appreciate those monsters you realise that amongst them are some of the best examples of body horror ever, like that first mini boss you fight the one with the glowing tongue, those arms it uses to bash you are actually 2 human bodies intertwined becoming one by the legs and the arms as fingers.

[@mayonnaise3959]

The monsters aren’t really threatening to me they look fucking hilarious to me actually

[@Draffut2003]

@@mayonnaise3959 Man, your so tough!

[@jakebooo1]

Wet Wolverine 3 confirmed

[@russetwolf13]

I dunno, the face explody bit at the beginning was quite literally the only time in that game I actually was horrified. "Oh hey, this nice mixed race guy is here to break me out of this hellish insane asy- OH GOD HIS FACE PEELED OFF! HEADBUTT!!" Mostly because he seemed like a nice guy and for once I wanted a run into a character who didn't have generic love interest plot armor. That guy might have actually been an interesting character in amongst all the generic whos-its who fullfill standard character tropes to a tee. To be honest just once I'd like to see "random helpful dude" not be killed for some wrote concept of shock. Kill the love interest, for christ's sake kill her, then you've got an unmoored plot that isn't just trying to hit a series of stops on it's way down the track.

[@GreenEyedDazzler]

russetwolf13 “nice mixed race guy” what the fuck?

[@dud5606]

@@GreenEyedDazzler Yeah, who the fuck even thinks like that.

[@russetwolf13]

@@GreenEyedDazzler Hey, look, 2020 comments on my 2014 posts, fun.

[@russetwolf13]

@@dud5606 Dude, why do you hate mixed race people and want to see them killed? That's not okay to want to kill people of diverse ethnic background.

[@ThatZenoGuy]

@@GreenEyedDazzler I mean its accurate? Naming things what they are, isn't bad or anything.

[@y05077]

I love the "you killed me, WAIT YOUR FUCKING TURN!" bit, gets me every time.

[@ImpulsiveZombie]

Call it cheesy and unsubtle all you want. The Stalkers still scare the shit out of me.

[@NEETKitten]

+ImpulsiveZombie Oh, you mean the Fast Zombies from Half Life.

[@ImpulsiveZombie]

16-bit Ruby Took me a second for my brain to understand that your profile wasn't mine.

[@NEETKitten]

ImpulsiveZombie Lol

[@ultimateninjaboi]

The fact that you effectively used Heavy Rain as a comparison makes this video all the more fantastic

[@MrTombombodil]

Ian M Vonnegut gets me every time.

[@GmodPlusWoW]

Y'know, Mass Effect would've been even more amazing if jetpacks were a massive part of the game and lore, as well as Shepard and the gang being able to whoosh around with said jetpacks, although maybe the biotic characters could have their own "biotic flight" like they just got recruited into the Justice League.

[@ichoffski4707]

Huh, Andromeda added jetpacks...

[@tombouric]

I remember watching a cartoon anime based on what I now think was Dead Space when I was about nineish and looking for videos on Space Hulk (Warhammer). I was so horrified that i had trouble sleeping for a couple of days and I suspect that it has left me with the crippling fear of zombie/necromorph creatures that I think I'm only getting over about seven years after the event. The point of that little anecdote was that Dead Space can be terrifying. If you're a nine year old boy.

[@ancalabond8703]

This was an anime? Or a cartoon? or what? if it was an anime, I am weeaboo detective, I can figure out what it was.

[@tombouric]

Ancala Bond I think I remember it looking like an anime, although now I'm not sure. Honestly, don't bother. I'm not sure I want to find out.

[@kjmasta99]

+Ancala Bond there was an animated movie that was a prequel to Dead Space 2.

[@reecelongden3500]

+Thomas “Warhammerfan” Bouric There was Downfall, which was a prelude to Dead Space 1, and Aftermath, which is Stross' story between Dead Space 1 and Dead Space 2. Downfall is all cell-shaded cartoon, while Aftermath has both 3D pre-rendered sections in the "present day" (a little naff, but bearable) and four different cell-shaded cartoon styles, one for each of the four 'flashback' sections. I love the series, and the films are no exception, but Downfall is my favourite. I remember watching it in IT class in a background window, and my teacher checked my screen and pulled the background window up on the SMART board... two of my classmates had to leave the room xD

[@haydentravis3348]

Just thinking while rewatching this, Dead Space is set in a future of space colonization. Maybe the job of raising an infant/child/teen is so socialized and efficient (Y'know, to get new colonies productive asap.) that your description, in jest, may be a real and practical method for our own space colonization efforts. I'm just a rando at home, so I'm prolly crazy. But Dead Space sold a few million copies. And if I've understood Zero Punctuation for the last decade, I think I can rely on this review being one of your more favored. #whatatimetobealive

[@KoreanBackdash]

"and a bucket on his head". Couldn't stop laughing for some reason xD

[@Sashathefool]

I must travel to the land of chocolate lesbians!

[@RobGrix]

"The USG 'Here are the Juicy Humans Yum Yum' " No matter how many times I hear it, I always lose it at that part.

[@alfiegerzimbke7805]

'like you're the fucking Wiggles' This is the best line I've heard. Ever.

[@LyricaSilvan]

This is one of your funniest episodes, by far. I couldn't stop laughing.

[@oneangrymailman8617]

"They flock around you like you're the fucking wiggles" Gets me every time lmao

[@HolyDeity]

Also, the monster appearances are choreographed. So you can basically remember when and where they will pop up and preemptively statis or throw a mine.

[@themetalone7739]

If you're going to complain about the "over powered weapons", you should play something besides the easy mode. On the more difficult modes, there is no weapon that mows necromorphs down with ease. Dead Space 2 was the best game of the franchise, imo.

[@Slider1207]

+The Metal One: You should give up your console if you thought the "more difficult modes" were at all challenging, you fucking casual swine.

[@mint5438]

The game even on the hard difficulty wasnt that difficult,The only real challenge for me was Hardcore,but then again thats only because I assume that all the humans on the space station were wearing bullet proof vests made of fucking diamond when they transformed. Imo

[@Tyler-dq5pw]

haven't laughed as much as i did at 4:02-4:10 in a long time.

[@youtubeisapublisher6407]

They fixed the damage in three by making the first enemies you fight out of solid concrete, capable of taking half a clip from military grade flechette rifles to the knee before even acknowledging they've been hit and loosing a limb.

[@drake2398]

I read a blog post theory about dead space i went something like this: Earth's air has higher levels of calcium than other planets with an atmosphere (this is true) After generations of living in space humans have developed austioparosis (A calcium deffeciency that causes brittle bones) Thus dismemberment is far easier, and the "RIGs" are actually pure calcium maintaing your bone structure.

[@cobaltkrusade5625]

IKR? in the Dead Space 3 review he said that THAT was one of the few moments in this game that made him make that little hiss noise when you see something akin to a flaming car wreck.

[@Gabberz123]

The point about the cutting tool in at the end turned my world upside down

[@zyad48]

and people tell me that the Dead Space games are scary HAH, they're to me, what the Mortal Kombat fatalities are: entertaining not scary

[@zyad48]

Kylorfo113 umm what?

[@Kylorfo113]

Bragging about not being scared of a game that isn't scary.

[@zyad48]

Kylorfo113 who said I was bragging? I've run into a lot of really dumb people out there that claim that this shit is scary. I was just saying what dead space is to me, basically its a game that I would play just for fun and to see some more ridiculous over-the-fucking-top overuse of gore, its almost hilarious, again like Metal Kombat fatalities. seriously though if anyone actually thinks this game is scary then they sure need to either grow up or play a real horror game, like Amnesia or Penumbra, hell even SCP Containment Breach is a much better horror game than dead space

[@Kylorfo113]

Zyad48 - The Warrior of Evil Mainstream "horror" games usually aren't as scary.

[@zyad48]

Kylorfo113 true. although I hear Alien: Isolation is pretty good and even Yahtzee thinks so

[@Jimpiedepimpie]

I think the idea is that Isaac has magnetic boots(wich allowed him to be a flying squirrel in the first game) wich quickly pull his feet to the ground so he can crush bones and stuff due to the sheer power of magnets.

[@MaxDeriPodUser]

The gravity boots are used in places without gravity to hold to the walls. When Isaac stomps, he activates the magnets or whatever so the boots get pulled to the ground with enough force to sever off limbs and smash crates.

[@keynanmartinez]

Dead Space 2 really was the Resident Evil 4 in aging well and having a perfect mix of horror and action. Plus the dismemberment is really unique instead of headshots which is original and not used that much today.

[@mayonnaise3959]

Game isn’t scary for shit

[@Arkhamaniac127]

the picture of Jeff Goldblum as The Fly made my day

[@ultmateragnarok8376]

I mean, the transformation from human to necromorph is actually quite slow, except for the one type of time when the aptly named infectors come up and do it instantly.

[@EakinSnyder]

I actually feel bad for that floor lamp now...

[@Sareth94]

Yep, discovered this in Dead Space 1 too... Use the secondary firemode and you're golden Blast their legs of with one shot, they're shortly paralyzed, stunlocked and can move only extremly slowly from that on. And you basically trip over ammo and medkits (not that I needed any first aid)

[@Sareth94]

maybe thats also why every box or object he trundles into goes flying around the room making loud noises. those were basically most of the very few moments when i was startled...

[@MrXxsnipesXx]

is it me, or after watching one of these videos, i always seem to read stuff in Yahtzee's voice, and at the same speed.

[@spartan3924]

one of the main things i like about dead space is the satisfying way you can blow limbs of things it sounds and feels solid, is kind of ruined when you thing about how unrealistic it is but you are using mining tools meant to blast rocks apart

[@AlphaZeroX96]

So Yahtzee likes Titan Square? I'm really glad about that. I wish I could live there. Does he like the ENTIRE game?

[@AwesomeSauce1000]

@PeturHinrik Escapist KZbin channel uploaded these videos within the last month or two. These reviews were all made within a week or two after the games came out. They just didn't upload the videos to KZbin until a long time had passed.

[@kieransword]

0:14 Did anyone notice the error in the corner?

[@dullen87]

I DEMAND A WET WOLVERINE!

[@SwerveStarEx]

For some reason I found the imagery in this episode even more wildly amusing than usual.

[@KeroroGuy62]

"Now if I were a paranoid man, which I'm not, Whatever people have been saying about me." I love how that just clarifies that you're paranoid. =P

[@TheIrishpsyco]

probably one of my favorite things in the Dead Space is the weight of life because, apparently, everything loses about 80% of it's weight when it's killed. If you shoot an unharmed enemy with the harpoon gun, they step back a foot. shoot them again, they die and fly backwards 40 feet.

[@---tw1kt]

secret of dead space is that its actually camp b-movie version of other "horror" games

[@warloxwill]

no because you forgot to scream Oggle Boggle Woggle at me

[@acehardy3629]

Idk some of the stuff is pretty accurate but, finding that the ishimura docked on titan and exploring it post cleanup isn't really the same as recycling old layouts, its not as if they tried to trick you into playing the same game twice, they just included the ishimura as a level. And I didn't expect Isaac to have a masters in literacy and spill his heart and soul every time someone sneezed, he's a typical engineer, he isn't meant to be the most interesting man in the world. I will admit however, it isn't very subtle whatsoever, however the opening sequence was more of an innovation from the normal, slowly build suspense over 3 chapters before there is any form of gameplay, type of game, by making you have to pause and change your pants before your arse even had time to hit the sofa.

[@omaDeadlyTaco]

Its Sunday. School starts tomorrow. I should really start on that Spring Break homework... just one more video...

[@Jinballify]

Someone likely already said this, but I am very surprised no-one has made a game about a Wet Wolverine after this review, even three and a half years later.

[@SplotchTheCatThing]

Somehow I want a game about a wet wolverine now. Somebody make it.

[@DankSquid]

5:23 if hes talking about the plasma cutter, it actually got re-purposed (i think that's the right word) into a surgical tool which is why you find it in a medical room pointing at a guy with an open chest

[@EdgyShooter]

I really hope the reaction to getting his arm trapped was simply "Oh piss" 😂

[@SandJosieph]

According to the Dead Space wiki monsters do in fact reset previous ambush sites.

[@zhazha23]

1:15 Aww, the Imp looks so cute for some reason...

[@RandomProduct]

Working on it now.

[@Huvpalto]

"I love mommy and being alive" :D

[@mat2th]

there is a good game design decision behind the way all the vents look the same ,is it so that it is recognizable ,so the player can go there and notice the elements in the room and feel badass after using a clever strategy to defeat the screaming morphing dead things using things around Isaac

[@TheGreatMrYumYum]

2:25 The arrow should've pointed to his groin area. Nyeheheheheh...

[@DeadmanXxXWalking]

The whole "body-stomping"-thing is only possible because Isaac has gravity boots. The more you know.jpg

[@ecoecoeco3000]

My band director conducted the musical score for this!

[@DarthPaul16]

When you had posted this comment the review for Dead Space 3 had already been out for 6 days. I suggest going to their website if you want to see the newest videos as they're uploaded.

[@calloftreyarch]

This video really has me cracking up right now xD

[@badcar33]

Actually Yahtzee necromorphs actually do replace the covers AND lay out traps. Like leaving ammo in front of those vents.

[@ShadowCthulhu]

Someone needs to make a Wet Wolverine game now.

[@sasukesarutobi3862]

All those aliens must be doing pretty well to sleep in Mercedes-Benz cabinets in the walls

[@theaxedude1]

My only experience with Dead Space was Issac being in Skate 3.

[@Zknight01]

In regards to your comment about the gore not meaning anything, I advised you review the the "dark machine" activation sequence. That is where they chiefly try and give some squick. As for the non durable Necromorphs, most of them are reanimated decomposed corpses ALREADY torn asunder by the first few Necromorphs. So breaking something with tape over it would be the proper analogy as you said. But of course, not all the monsterous bodies there were easy to break. The Leviathan wasn't.

[@Rohan2300]

good point...hm..that said, I suppose a heavy enough stomp (like..a couple tons) performed fast enough would pulverise bone and cause flesh to rupture...so it could well be at least partially severed. yah, I think you're right though, not much chance of a clean severage..

[@Merick123456789]

i would kill to see Isaac hide in a vent then scare the shit out of necromorph that would make me so happy haha

[@AzureArc]

He's a critic, his job is to draw attention to any and all flaws a video game has, no matter how benign, all in the hope and interest of perhaps encouraging developers to work on these little flaws and improve the quality of future games. Progression and whatnot.

[@superlukey3]

If you are set back hours when you die, you dread every encounter. If you dread every encounter, you are afraid of the enemies and their hour-muching presence. If you are afraid of the monsters, it is a scary game. Doesn't even have to be technically "scary" for this to work at all; Super Mario Bros. could make Bowser scary with such an approach.

[@Genasidal]

he forgot to mention the needle in the eye part... NOW THAT was funny LOL

[@beep-beep]

Yes. Except when I think of Cthulu I don't think about space suits and galactic cruisers, I thin about undersea doom temples and ancient sea-ship cults.

[@lorddeox]

He has done. It went up on The Escapist website last week.

[@brentramsten249]

.... the first game actually showed someone transforming over time in one of the data recorder drops

[@ldmt1995]

Well to be fair those luminescent spines everyone wears offer the advantage of super strength so it would be pretty easy for anyone to stomp bone like nothing.

[@mayonnaise3959]

Ain’t no way they do that shit

[@Mrsteddyz]

Don't tell me i have to fight that giant thing at the end of Dead space 1 in Dead Space 3

[@D8W2P4]

Actually they do try to tie some kind of emotional investment to him in the form of the Lambda scientists in HL1 and the general populace, one of the species of alien from the previous games, 2 of the characters from the previous game (Barney and Isaac) and the Vances in HL2.

[@IWillNeverMakeVideos]

I'm guessing "that mountain climber bloke" is Aron Lee Ralston?

[@customcartoons]

3:06 Also had a dodge-the-debris moment in Ratchet and Clank.

[@thomascagle4820]

I've watched so many of these videos my internal monologue sounds like Yahtzee.

[@SuperSporian]

NECROMORPH WITH HAT LOL

[@Solanaceously]

Dead space also refers to the space between galaxies btw

[@supafred16]

this video has been on the escapist for a long ass time already

[@ABeardedSage]

@Dare2bDumb I never even made it to the Ripper. I used the Plasma Cutter and the Force Gun. I didn't even equip any other guns so that I'd definitely find more ammo for my two favorites.

[@johnnyzombie100]

The reason he can dismember limbs so easily is he has gravity boots, that come crashing down with force.

[@filipinowhiteboy]

Dead Space and Dead Space 2 were some of my favorite games of 2008 and 2011. And yet I can't get mad at watching them be roasted. Because Yahtzee here is absolutely hilarious

[@Soraking007]

no cthulu is an ancient god of insanity who was traspped between dimentions and depending where you read it on the moon or in the core of earth

[@FidoZip1988]

Time to play it again