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2010 · Renegade Kid · Adventure · First-person shooter

Dementium II

Nintendo console exclusive

Dementium II continues to push the horror experience by melding FPS action and puzzles with a story and ambience that will have players on the edge of their seats. New wrinkles to gameplay, all new weapons, dual wielding items, improved interface and save system, and mind-boggling environments promise to engage gamers and spawn fear the likes of which some never thought possible.

Released: 4 May 2010
Platforms: Nintendo DS Windows macOS
Genres: Adventure First-person shooter Horror Puzzle Survival horror
Developers: Renegade Kid
Publishers: SouthPeak Games Oizumi Amuzio
Series: Dementium
Modes: Single-player
Perspective: First person
Country: United States
Age ratings: ESRB M
Entry: #2 in Dementium

About

Dementium II is a 2010 survival horror first-person shooter video game developed by Renegade Kid and published by SouthPeak Games for the Nintendo DS. It is the sequel to 2007's Dementium: The Ward. A remastered version of the game without involvement from Renegade Kid was released for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X on December 17, 2013 to negative reviews.

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Gameplay

Dementium II features many improvements over its predecessor, including different weapons, a larger variety of enemies, the ability to jump and crouch, save points, more environments, the ability to hold the flashlight and gun at the same time, an improved map system and the removal of respawning enemies. In addition, health items are now saved in the inventory and players can use them at any given time.

Story

Dementium II opens with the protagonist of Dementium: The Ward, William Redmoor, awakening in a hospital bed. He is escorted through the facility to a cell in which he finds a postcard from himself, which urges him to flee the hospital. Suddenly, the world around William changes into a demented version of its usual appearance, and he is forced to fight his way through this altered reality.

As William progresses reality shifts from normal to demented semi-frequently, and occasionally more postcards from himself show up, giving him direction and advice. Inside the hospital, he confronts the chief doctor, who informs William that the demented reality began manifesting only after surgery was done on William's brain, implicating that something was 'let out' of William's head. The doctor then shifts into a more macabre version of himself as reality shifts again, and unleashes an enemy on William. Afterwards, William continues looking for a way out of the hospital, eventually stumbling upon his intake form, which claims he murdered his wife, and is suffering from a "schizotypal disorder" or some unknown mental illness. William manages to escape the hospital through a tunnel dug in the boiler room.

Development

The game was announced when a teaser trailer was released on May 30, 2009, to IGN. The teaser acted as a commercial for the Bright Dawn Treatment Center. This was one of the many settings for the game.

Watsham had said in October 2009 that Dementium II is "the best game he has ever worked on."

Reception

The DS version received "generally favorable reviews", while the PC version received "generally unfavorable reviews", according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. In Japan, where the DS version was ported and published by Intergrow on September 30, 2010, Famitsu gave it a score of one eight, two sevens, and one eight for a total of 30 out of 40.