Poll: SPOILERS Dead Space 2 has gone too far.

[Doclector]

I spent all weekend playing this game, (a nice length of about ten hours, if you explore in search of items quite a bit like I did) and while I found the crawlers and pack incredibly wrong, well, that's the point. For one thing, as someone mentioned earlier, the necromorphs would not spare children, so the lack of said child necromorphs would be a logical problem, but dead rising, left 4 dead, and other "infection based enemy" games manage to get by without young infected, I'd have let them get away with it too.

The point is though, horror is littered with examples of making a dangerous situation scarier with the use of enemies you wouldn't want to simply kill. Zombies? They aren't truly scary because of getting eaten alive, or their numbers, or even their ability to keep going with gaping holes in them, it was the thought of having to kill your family, and friends in order to survive. What about alma? How better to make an evil force basically unkillable than by making it take form of something so seemingly innocent as a little girl?

By casting children, and even babies, as enemies, dead space 2 taps into that disturbing feeling of having to kill something that typically, a decent person wouldn't even so much as hit. I respect this game for daring to break that boundary in the name of having a more effective and disturbing experience, like films have dared to break in the past.

 

[Battenbergcake]

If you're unfromfortable then that's good horror's meant to make you feel at odds with yourself and your security.

 

[Metazare]

If we are lucky, dead space 3 will have us killing peoples grandmothers. My eye balls tingle with anticipation.

 

[DTWolfwood]

wait does shooting a moving corpse with tentacles even count as murder?

 

[Broken Orange]

I had a friend over and I was showing him some gameplay and it happened to be the nursery scene. I had Mr. Clarke walk into nursery and I came across the mother calling for her (dead) baby. When they exploded, my friend and I sort of chuckled, but at the same time thinking that this is fucked up. I am glad that they didn't pull any punches with the horror.

 

[bam13302]

about half way through that area, i kinda realized the morality in it, then a baby blew me across the room
'if its hostile, you kill it'
on that note, in the airport scene in MW2, i did not shoot anyone that did/could shoot me back (so pretty much nothing until the swat showed up)

 

[Shadowtek]

I did about 10 minutes of research on the game before the release date and knew that one. Theirs a lot of that kind of stuff in the game. Just keep in mind, "Its just a game".

 

[monkey_man]

Is it an 18+ game? if so, shush.
HorrorGames can go as far as they want to be truly horrifying and repulsive, so it can creep you the fck out, me thinks.
And good that children/infants are finally in a game where you can shoot them.

 

[TitanAtlas]

"Oh no crying babies, im so scared and im going to cry like a little baby."

grow a pair, its a game, and one thing they love is contraversy. also crying babyes in teh nursery is a really nice touch to set the mood. i tell you dead space 2 blew up my expectations, i was so not expecting it to be this good....

 

[Jarcin]

Dante's Inferno let me grab babies and explode them with god...I'd rather of used a gun <.<

 

[Hitchmeister]

Wait... the games advertising claim is that it's the most shocking and disturbing thing ever and you went out and bought it and now your complaining because it makes a sincere effort to live up to it's own hype? What were you expecting?

 

[Ashcrexl]

in this current era of enlightenment, there is no such thing as fiction going too far. it's all for the sake of art.

 

[SalamanderJoe]

Well its just like in say a zombie film. Being forced to kill a child is a disturbing and scary element in horror, but it must be done to survive. Except in zombie films its done with a gun, not an industrial power saw like in Dead Space 2.

 

[Rayken15]

I couldn't stop laughing at that part of the game.

 

[AndrewC]

What's this?! An 18-rated game with MILDLY disturbing content?!

Oh no!

 

[Alpha Maeko]

I voted "yes" because I thought you were referring to the ad campaign. In retrospect, I would've voted "no".

 

[Lizmichi]

Just to point out one thing, we make dead baby jokes yet some are discussed by seeing dead babies? Yea I'm some what disturbed but this is Dead Space and I've seen a hell of allot worse in movies and all that happens to it is it's get's slapped with an R rating.

 

[RobfromtheGulag]

Are they demon babies? Because we've been killing them for awhile.

Seriously though, people are going to push the envelope until they run out of things to push. And then things are going to get stupid. And we may have already reached that point...

 

[Jesus Phish]

You did the same thing in Doom 3. You shot demonized babies. OH the horror(!) The confusion it will cause to people!!! Is it ok now to kill a baby in real life because a game told me so!??

 

[random_bars]

TC, don't watch this.