Dead Space 2
Publisher
Electronic Arts
Release Date (US)
04/27/2017
Release Date (EU)
01/28/2011
Cheat Codes/Hints
Necromorph upgrades
Reach the indicated level in your online career to unlock the corresponding upgrade.
Lurker Execution Attack Damage Increase: Level 27
Lurker Health Increase: Level 43
Lurker Melee Damage Increase: Level 15
Lurker Range Damage Increase: Level 3
Pack Execution Attack Damage Increase: Level 18
Pack Gets Out of Stasis Faster: Level 48
Pack Health Increase: Level 31
Pack Melee Damage Increase: Level 6
Puker Execution Attack Damage Increase: Level 24
Puker Health Increase: Level 58
Puker Melee Damage Increase: Level 39
Puker Ranged Damage Increase: Level 12
Spitter Execution Damage Increase: Level 9
Spitter Health Increase: Level 53
Spitter Melee Damage Increase: Level 21
Spitter Ranged Damage Increase: Level 35
New Game + mode
Successfully complete Campaign mode and save the game. This mode allows access to your all the weapons and items in the store and your inventory.
Prequel bonuses
Successfully complete Dead Space: Ignition in single player Ignition mode to unlock the Hacker suit (has bonus perks and hacking capabilities), a Hacker-themed Contact Beam weapon skin, exclusive audio logs, and extra power nodes, health packs, and credits.
Refurbished Plasma Cutter
Have a saved game file from the original Dead Space. The Refurbished Plasma Cutter can be found at the first store.
Restore health
Use the shop and the work bench to restore your health. When you wear a suit for the first time your health is refilled. Purchase the Respec ability for 5,000 credits. Remove the Power Nodes from the Rig and replace them for full health.
Schematic locations
Search the indicated locations to find the corresponding schematic.
Chapter 2
Power Node: Found in the first Power Node locked room you find. You can open the locked door with a Power Node. One can be found on the ground through the door to the left of the closet.
Hacker Suit: Found at the end of the tram walkway area, near the location you encounter the Fire Sack Necromorphs.
Stasis Pack: Found on the tracks by where the flaming train passes you for the first time.
Chapter 3
Pulse Rifle: Once you are out of the train, it is in a corner just behind where the train is hanging.
Javelin Spears: Found behind the big marker statue towards the windows on the left.
Chapter 4
Security Suit: Found on the top shelf of the room just past the door that you must slow down to walk through.
Chapter 5
Ripper: In the multi level room, ride the elevator down, then go to the right side of the room.
Medium Health Pack: After turning off the gravity and going through the holes in the ceiling, it will be floating in the middle of the room.
Line Gun Ammo: After crawling through the duct and falling, you will go through a storage room. You will find it behind some shelves on the right side.
Detonator: Found in a room at the top of the church by the save station.
Chapter 6
Seeker Rifle: On the path at the start of the chapter, enter the door to the right. You will be on a balcony and the schematic will be on the far right side on the ground.
Pulse Rounds: When you first meet Ellie, she will unlock the gate. Instead of going through the gate behind her, follow the path around to the right where it is blocked by debris
Flame Thrower: After you exit the gym, follow the path and go into the classroom to find the "Kids Gone Crazy" text log. In that same room, there is a smaller room on the right side with blood on the wall. The schematic is on the ground.
Chapter 7
Ripper Blades: At the start of the chapter when you enter zero gravity, the schematic will be floating at the bottom of the room.
Force Gun: After you exit the elevator, turn left. You will find some yellow lockers. The schematic in the second locker from the left.
Contact Beam: The schematic is in the locked closet to the left of the location where you first see the save station on the wall. Use a Power Node to open the closet and get it.
Chapter 8
Vintage Suit: Found in the first locked door in this chapter.
Detonator Mines: When you first talk to Ellie and Stross, go to the next room, and take a left. The schematic is beside a body.
Large Med Pack: Found in the room where you first meet Ellie. It is located past the table in the corner. Use kinesis to move the table.
Chapter 9
Flame Fuel: When you encounter the laser traps, take a right from where they were located. You will see a few crates lying around. Use kinesis to move them to find the schematic and an audio log.
Seeker Shells: Found behind the guardian mounted near the exit door of the room where you fight Stalkers and Cysts.
Chapter 10
Force Energy: When you reach the zero gravity area, go to the lower level to find it on the ground.
Chapter 11
Contact Energy: In the zero gravity station where you move the lasers to gain access to the shaft that leads inside, look outside from the inside of the shaft to find it.
Advanced Suit: Enter the locked room opposite of the detonator mines trap. The schematic is inside this room, but you need a Power Node to open this locked room.
Secret Achievements
Complete the following achievements to unlock Xbox Live Gamerscore points.
- Clever Girls ( 10 points )
- Survive your first encounter with Stalkers.
- Cross your Heart, Hope to Die ( 30 points )
- Survive the Eye Poke Machine.
- Survive the Train Sequence.
- Elevator Action ( 15 points )
- Knock off every Tripod during the Elevator Sequence.
- Hornet's Nest ( 30 points )
- Knock Knock ( 25 points )
- One Small Step ( 10 points )
- Get through the first Zero-G area.
- Snare the Shard with the Ishimura.
- Patient on the Loose ( 15 points )
- Complete the Solar Array Puzzle.
- The Final Sacrifice ( 50 points )
- The Fugitive ( 50 points )
- The Graduate ( 20 points )
- Win the fight at the School.
- Torment Me No More ( 20 points )
Special Suits and Weapons
After finishing the game, you get two suits that gaves you 25% more resistance to any hit and if you have an old Dead Space save file you get the original Plasma Cutter wich cost 0 credits and can be found on any store at any time.
- Complete the game under the Zealot difficulty to unlock it at the store.
- Dead Space 1 Plasma Cutter
- Have an Dead space 1 Save File.
- Find the schematic in New Game + mode during Chapter 11. When the yellow lift reaches the top, turn around to find it on the ledge between the elevator and wall.
- Found the schematic before entering the vacum on chapter one and purchase the suit on the store in the New game+ mode.
- Purchase at the store in New Game + mode or log into the same EA account in the iPod/iPhone Dead Space game.
- Find the schematic in New Game + mode during Chapter 9. After you exit the tram, search over the railing.
- Find the schematic in New Game + mode during Chapter 6. Search the area where you fight the tank before the end of the chapter.
- Have a saved game file from Dead Space: Ignition to unlock it at the store.
- Complete the game under the Hardcore difficulty to unlock it at the store.
Unlimited credits
Purchase the Supernova or Martial Law downloadable content. Go to the store and purchase the Detonator weapon for free. Fire the mines at a wall, then deactivate them and collect them. Do not reload the Detonator. Sell the mines and Detonator for credits at the store. Buy the Detonator back for free and it will be fully stocked. Repeat the process as many times as desired.
Achievements
Complete the following achievements to unlock Xbox Live Gamerscore points.
- ...And Stay Down ( 10 points )
- Kill 25 crawling enemies with Stomp ( single player only).
- Bouncing Betty ( 10 points )
- Kill a Cyst by catching its Mine and throwing it back.
- Kill a Brute without taking damage.
- Knock down an enemy with Contact Beam Alt-Fire then kill it with Primary Fire before it stands up.
- Sever all three tentacles of a Lurker with one Line Gun Primary Fire shot ( single player only).
- Collect Peng ( 20 points )
- Epic Dismemberment ( 50 points )
- Dismember 2,500 Necromorph Limbs ( single player only).
- Use Quick Heal ten times ( single player only).
- Frozen in Time ( 10 points )
- Kill 50 Necromorphs while they are in Stasis ( single player only).
- Fully Loaded ( 50 points )
- Simultaneously have four completely upgraded weapons.
- Fully Outfitted ( 30 points )
- Upgrade your RIG and Stasis completely.
- Going for Distance ( 20 points )
- Impale an enemy and make him fly through the air for 17 meters - it must stick to the surface.
- Hard to the Core ( 50 points )
- Complete the game on Hard Core setting.
- It's a Trap! ( 20 points )
- Kill 20 enemies with Detonator Mines in a deployed state.
- Lawnmower Man ( 10 points )
- Kill 4 enemies with the same Ripper blade.
- Lightspeed de Milo ( 10 points )
- Dismember the Lightspeed Boy Statue.
- Looking good ( 10 points )
- Purchase the Advanced Suit.
- Made Us Whole ( 10 points )
- Complete the game on any difficulty setting.
- Mission Impossible ( 50 points )
- Complete the game on Zealot setting.
- My Boom Stick ( 20 points )
- Kill 6 enemies at once with Line Gun's Alt-Fire ( single player only).
- Necro Flambé ( 10 points )
- Kill 50 enemies using the Flamethrower.
- Peek a Boo! ( 20 points )
- Kill a Stalker with the Seeker Rifle while in Zoom Mode.
- Picking favorites ( 30 points )
- Upgrade 1 Weapon completely.
- Romper Stomper ( 25 points )
- Shock Therapy ( 10 points )
- Impale an enemy with the Javelin Gun and use its Alt-Fire to shock 3 others ( single player only).
- Shoot the Limbs! ( 10 points )
- Dismember 25 Necromorph Limbs ( single player only).
- Skewered in Space ( 15 points )
- Impale an enemy into a Decompression Window to cause it to blow out.
- Taste of your own Medicine ( 20 points )
- TK Impale a live Slasher to a surface using a Slasher's arm - it must stick to the surface.
- The Electrician ( 10 points )
- Collect 10 Semiconductors.
- The Engineer ( 10 points )
- The Librarian ( 10 points )
- Kill 30 Crawlers without detonating them.
- The Sampler Platter ( 20 points )
- Kill a Necromorph with every Weapon in the game ( single player only)..
- Kill 30 Necromorphs with Kinesis objects.
- Vacuum Cleaner ( 30 points )
- Decompress 20 Necromorphs without getting sucked out yourself.