How many methods have Visceral Games found to kill, rend, destroy, gib and dismember Dead Space 2 protagonist Isaac Clarke? Let me count the ways…

By the looks of this montage video (included below) put together by Gametrailers, there are many paths towards the death of Isaac Clarke, all of them horrific and gory (and pretty entertaining), as those alien zombie Necromorphs and the environment itself make quick work of the poor fellow.

If (READ: When) you pick up Dead Space 2 today in the US, or on January 28th in the UK, Europe and South Africa, please do your best to keep Isaac alive to save him from going through any more excruciating fatalities:

(Warning: May contain mild story spoilers, and obviously includes massive amounts of virtual violence. The squeamish should not proceed.)

Dead Space 2 - Interplanetary Violence Gameplay Montage

Be sure to pore over El33tonline’s previous coverage of Dead Space 2 for more videos, batches of screenshots and tons more information on this excellent, exciting horror action game, including news of the first set of downloadable content, Dead Space 2: Severed.