Dead Space Walkthrough

*For all enemies, keep in mind you have melee attacks: normal without aiming  is the fire button, curb stomp is the alt fire button when not aiming.

*Aim for the limbs, duh.

*They all slash at you, so don’t let them get close.

*The ones that can grab you and then you see a button on your back as you try to fend them off, just tap that button as fast as you can for a kill animation.

STANDARD

Slasher – The basic enemy type. Shoot a leg off, then take out an arm while it’s on the ground and it’s dead. Just use the horizontal cutter angle and aim at the feet.

There is also a female slasher that spits, but I only ran into like  four all game long. Perhaps there are more on hard.

Leaper – Just a torso, and they leap around. Not that many in the game, and all you can do is aim low to hit them.

Lurker – aka Babies, they have three tentacles that can shoot barbs at you, so once you see the arms shoot at two of the to kill or at least stop them from attacking. If they get close, they jump on you.

Infector – Fast and very hard to fight. Just lay into them with whatever you got and don’t let them jump on you. If dead bodies are around, you have only seconds before these guys turn them into super slashers.

Pregnant – DO NOT SHOOT THE BELLY! You do and you’ll also fight a ton of  swarmers. Just aim high at the shoulders and these things die without too much grief.

Swarmer – aka Crawlers. These are chunks of flesh rolling around the ground. Need a contact beam alt fire, flamethrower, or force gun attack to  take them out. Or let them jump on you and tap the button to shake them off for free if you want to, but they hurt you if you don’t shake fast enough.

Brute – Only a handful in the game, so they are like mini boss fights, but not really. You need about three stasis blasts, then either run behind  them and aim for the yellow parts of their back, or just aim your  vertical cutter blades into their shoulders. You could also just shoot line racks into their shoulders and a few mines, that did work for me once. Remember, they die when an item falls out of them, or you’ll  fire ammo at a dead body.

Divider – Just a few of these, maybe a few more of their parts. These are tall, loud things that rush you and scare the crap out of you. All you can do is aim at their long legs, then use force blasts on their parts. The parts of hands or the head that crawl around and can jump on you if you don’t take them out. Again, one force blast and they are all gone.

Guardian – These things are attached to walls and shoot out bady eggs. The  eggs shoot at you from a tentacle, just like a lurker, but only one.  Your best bet with the guardian is to shoot a cannister at it, or just aim for its four tentacles attached to the wall. DO NOT get close or you will be dead. You should ignore the egg fire unless you are just  sickened by the thought of taking a slight bit of damage.

Exploder – Suiciders with a big, yellow bomb at their side. Shoot that bomb, duh. If you kill the morph alone, you can use the bomb with kinesis or like a cannister.

Twitcher – A soldier with a stasis mod, so a fast slasher. Just use the force gun, make it simple. Anything works, but my way is easier.

Tentacle – These can grab you at a few times in the game and try to drag you away. At other times they are just sticking up and trying to damage you. Either way, aim for the yellow. During dragging sequences you should use the cutter since the aim is easier.

SUPERS

Supers are fast, darker versions of their normal counterparts. They are just tougher to compensate for your increased weapon power.

Super Slasher – Made by infectors, but can be seen at any time. They are just faster, stronger slashers, simple as that. They are easily the  scariest enemy in the game.

Super Lurker – Hardly any change from the normal form, mainly that you’ll have  to pump more ammo into each tentacle.

Super Leaper – Just a stronger leaper, that’s it.
BOSSES

Hunter 1 – You just kill the lurkers, wait for the doors to unlock, stasis the  big guy in the middle chamber, then run into the doors and use the computer  on the window to send him away.

Leviathan – You shoot away the tentacles, then when you’re facing the mouth you kinesis the 1st and 3rd bombs, shooting them at the 2nd and 4th bombs  respectively, and then you shoot the 5th bomb back into the thing’s mouth.  You can hit the bulb inside the mouth at any time, especially while it’s  roaring. You repeat this, keeping in mind you can jump to avoid the swipes of the arms; and you aim for the yellow the arms.

Slug – This is an arcade shooting sequence in the ADS cannon. You just hit the  yellow on the tentacles to prevent it from throwing crap at you. Remember not to fire both turrets at once or it overheats, but it seems like you can hold  down one side for quite a while.

Hunter 2 – This fight is only a bit harder as you should try to trap the big  guy in the control room, or keep freezing him, then go kill the six or so twitchers. Then lead him to behind the ship, freeze him in the bridge behind the engine, and then run and melt him away; repeat until he’s gone.

Hive Mind – Pretty easy, hopefully brought tons of plasma energy. You aim at  the bulbs inside it’s mouth as it roars, and then the rest when it’s pulled you up. To avoid the arm pounds, just run from side to side. Once the mouth bulbs are gone, now you will have only a few seconds to aim at the under bulbs between your running back and forth. Easy.