The biggest con of this game: The gameplay. Don't get me wrong, it was fun, but fighting off necromorphs got tiresome. Concentrating fire on armies of limbs coming at you starts feeling more like a way to simply delay the game's progressing story & dull the gameplay fairly quickly.

That said, I did find myself sucked into the game's world (gasp!) & Isaac's now responsive & character-driven story. The environments were far more varied than they were in the first game's depressing series of hulls & hallways & creaking pipes, w/ nurseries & homes & districts full of stores every which way. The cinematic feel was a lot more developed than the first, & I personally love those touches, where control of the protagonist seemlessly disappears or lessens w/ you hardly noticing as the train ye're on comes to a crash or a Space Helicopter™ springs up out of nowheres poppin' caps in space butts.

Better than the first in every way, & I'm sad I put it off so long. Also, screw EA, &c. ( )