Dead Space: Harder Than I Thought

posted by Jaitu at 07:57

I've been playing Dead Space recently and it's proving to be a fairly excellent third-person-shooter with plenty of tension and more than a few horror surprises.
I decided from the outset to play through on the hardest difficulty setting in order to get the 'Epic Tier 3 Engineer' achievement which is worth a substantial 150 gamer points. The description for the achievement is "Complete the game on the hardest difficulty setting". So I launched myself in and have toiled as far as chapter 5 of 12 so far.
BUT NOW!
Now I have just learned that the 'hardest' difficulty isn't actually available until you complete the game at least once. On completion a hidden option of 'Impossible' becomes available and it's this level of difficulty that'll allow the achievement.
Well, crap. I'm now sorely tempted to restart the whole thing on easy and play through it to get all the other achievements - which in themselves require at least two plays through to accrue.
By all accounts 'easy' is significantly easier than the level I'm currently playing on so I should, at least, be able to get back to where I am in a few hours.