[chucknorris078]

The following Road Map was written by SwatTJ.
The rest of the guide was written by chucknorris078.

Overview:

-Estimated trophy difficulty: 5/10
-Offline: 49
-Online: 0
-Approximate amount of time to Platinum: 18-24 hours
-Minimum number of playthroughs needed: 2-3
-Number of missable trophies: Ragdoll Check; Playing Catch; Don’t Get Cocky, Kid; Slugger; Crackshot; Zero-G Baller; There’s Always Peng!
-Glitched trophies: None
-Do cheat codes disable trophies?: No

Road Map:

All of Dead Space’s trophies except for 1, and the platinum of course, can be gotten on any difficulty. Once you complete the game for the first time, you will unlock the Impossible difficulty which is needed for the last trophy. There are cheat codes that can be used that will not disable trophies. They are listed below:

One Time Uses:

---- = 1,000 Credits
---- = 2,000 Credits
----- = 5,000 Credits
------ = 10,000 Credits
---- - Add 2 power nodes
----------- = Add 5 power nodes

Multiple Uses:

---- - Refill Stasis and Kinesis energy
---- - Refill Oxygen

First Playthrough

I personally chose to play through the game on Easy. One reason was not knowing just how difficult this game was going to be, but also because you will find more items overall in the game by playing on easy. This makes it easier to save money for the trophy “Maxed Out.” There is a glitch in Chapter 3, see here, that you could use to try and cut down the 3rd playthrough needed. Again, I only needed 2.5 playthroughs because I had enough money to get “Maxed Out” halfway through my 2nd playthrough.

During this playthrough you will get all the Chapter related trophies. You should also be searching out and picking up all the audio and video logs that you can find. The most you need for the trophies is 150 so you are able to miss a few. As long as you’re searching everywhere you should be fine. The other collectibles are schematics and they are easily found as well. You’ll want to buy every weapon throughout the game, upgrade everything as you go along and also store stuff in your safe. Doing all this will unlock additional trophies. As you’re playing, you should be shooting the enemies in their limbs to be more effective. There are 3 trophies in total requiring different amounts of limbs to be dismembered.

There is a trophy for every gun requiring you to kill 30 enemies with it. This is where there is an option. For this first playthrough, you can decide to go for the “One Gun” trophy which requires beating the game by only using the Plasma Cutter, or you can go for the weapon trophies. If you pass up doing the one gun run on this playthrough, you will either have to beat the game on Impossible by only using the Plasma Cutter or you will have to play another entire playthrough instead of half of one for the “Maxed Out” trophy. I fell into that latter category because I didn’t plan correctly.

There are a handful of special trophies you should be aware of and try your hardest to get on this first playthrough. These 7 are listed under “Number of missable trophies:” in the Overview section above. Check the trophy guide for how to get these. I also ordered them in the approximate order you’ll encounter them in the playthrough.

Second Playthrough (or half playthrough)

This one is a breeze. You’ll continue from your first game and play essentially a new game+. It will be on the same difficulty that you beat the game on and you can not change that. You’re only goal for this is to get enough money to buy all the Power Nodes that you need to max out all your weapons, your rig, stasis and kinesis. You should note that every single empty node does not have to be filled. If you can skip an empty one and still fill in all the upgrade spots, then do so. This will save you time and money. You will need to have all your upgraded weapons in your possession which means either in your inventory or in your stash. Do not sell them. I recommend selling any ammunition, health packs, air packs and anything else that you get and don’t need for the extra cash. If playing normally, you should have enough for “Maxed Out” by Chapter 5 or 6.

Note: If you chose to use the Chapter 3 glitch for money, you may not even need any of this second playthrough.

Third Playthrough

This will be your last playthrough of the game. Once you beat the game for the first time, Impossible difficulty will unlock and need to be beaten for the “Epic Tier 3 Engineer” trophy. Depending on how you handled the “One Gun” trophy, you may be able to buy and use anything you want to beat this mode or you may be stuck using the Plasma Cutter for the whole game. In all honesty, the Plasma Cutter is probably the best gun in the game so it is not hard to beat the game on Impossible and get the “One Gun” trophy at the same time.

If you beat the game for the first time and then go straight into Impossible then you should have no problem. The mode is not that much harder and you will know where the enemies come from and how to handle certain areas. Take your time and remember to use kinesis as it is a life saver on Impossible.