I absolutely adore Dead Space 2. It is one of my favourite games of all time and I have nearly 200 hours on it across different platforms. Near perfect Action Horror, through and through.
However as of 02/02/25 I cannot recommend this game to anyone with Windows 11 and/or newer hardware like Intel i9 CPU's (10+ cores is a MAJOR ISSUE) or Nvidia 40 series GPU's, as it absolutely refuses to run longer than 20 minutes without either soft or hardlocking your PC, and that's even if you can get it to boot in the first place. I have spent many hours trying numerous combinations of fixes for things such as framerate, controls, graphical errors, DLC removal, Inaccessible bonus rooms and so... SO MUCH more, to absolutely no avail.
Please do not waste your time with this version of the game until EA pull their thumb out of their bunghole and fix their game.

EDIT: 12 hours after I wrote this review, I managed to stabilise DS2 enough to play it for an hour without any crashes.
If you do attempt to get this game working on a PC with more than 10 CPU cores, you must download Windows ADK Compatibility Manager and create your own database fix that tricks your PC into thinking it has less cores than it actually does. Then, you must lock your all software and hardware to run at 60fps and turn off V-SYNC. I'd recommend replacing your EXE with v1.0 to remove the DLC packs and manually replacing/renaming the DATA files in order to unlock the previously inaccessible Conduit Rooms.
So with a bit of work, you can get this game working. But there is still no Severed DLC solution so EA can suck my nuts, the negative review stays.

Achievements please

Make remake 10/10