Necromorph Transformation – Dead Space 2
Before anyone can yell at me for not mentioning the needle to the eye scene in Dead Space 2, that’s not here because I already covered it.
Even if I hadn’t, this seems like a far worse way to go than taking a harmless prick to the cornea.
As stellar as the first Dead Space was, its sequel managed to improve upon it in every way. It let us know the stakes had been raised within the first five minutes, when a tied up Isaac Clarke is treated to a front row seat view of what a Necromorph transformation looks like.
It takes all of 20 seconds for the guy to turn into one of the game’s most common enemy types, the Slasher. During those painful seconds, his insides to become his outsides and his teeth and bones are broken and turned into crude weapons. It even looks like there are a few seconds after the Infector has removed its stinger where he looks like his insides are boiling.
Dead Space has become known for the many ways Isaac can be killed because developer Visceral Games actually went through the trouble of showing us what happens, rather than letting us know we done goof’d by displaying a “You Died! LOLZ” message on the screen. No, in this series, we get to see every horrific way Isaac can perish.
While playing these games, I’ve seen Isaac get torn apart by a Brute, I’ve seen a Puker melt his face to the bone, get bisected by a closing door, and have his head replaced by a Divider, among a couple dozen other deaths. They each bring varying levels of pain, but losing control over your body before being turned inside out and transformed into a living weapon sounds the least appealing.
