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I beat Dead Space 2 on HARDCORE mode.

Dead Space 2 has five difficulties - Casual, Normal, Survivalist, Zealot, Hardcore. Hardcore mode takes the item drops from Zealot (the "very hard" difficulty), and the enemy health/damage from Survivalist (the "hard" difficulty). It then makes it so that there are no checkpoints, and that you may only save 3 times (you can only continue from your save points). Even if you know exactly what to do, the game is still about 8 and a half hours long, making this a pretty darn challenging difficulty for an already difficult game.

The reward, however, is absolutely worth it -

www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBS86rAT4W0
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNTXGMoFN1w

Posted a mini-guide kinda thing for a hardcore run on GameFAQs -

www.gamefaqs.com/boards/975303-dead-space-2/57989076

It's got some spoilers, but if anyone else on here is attempting the run, it might help.

Another thing that people forget when handling a gun is that there actually isn't a heads-up display in real life. This can make it difficult to tell how many grenades you are currently holding, as well as make you confused as to how much ammo you really have. Bullets not fired from the magazine you just ejected no longer teleport into a magical stockpile of full magazines, so reloading every time you fire a shot and find yourself in cover is no longer the best tactic.

Okay, okay, enough teasing. I don't really mean to be all that rude or anything, but I'm pretty surprised you apparently never fired a gun before entering the military (universal conscription or not, that sounds weird to me that you would have never tried one before entering into something where you'd be using one around other people - maybe they have strict gun laws over there, or few ranges?). I thought these kinds of things were well-known. Your naivete developed about how they may actually operate from playing a video game is actually kind of startling, to me.

Quite a few games out there do address some of the things you went over, too. A lot of games use iron-sight aiming with little-to-no crosshairs, these days, and many of them also bring in breath control when aiming down a sniper scope (although they rarely bring it in when firing any gun, largely because it might make the game irritating) and (slightly) realistic recoil. Also, a clip is not a magazine. Common mistake, though.

Anyway, again, sorry if this sounded mean or rude, but I'm just very surprised by some of the conceptions you had about guns prior to actually using one. It really sounds like you had no idea how unrealistic guns in video games actually were, which feels like evidence that video games do actually disillusion people.

The developers found this so profound that the special edition for Gears 2 comes with a replica of that glossy photo he shows everyone when asking if they know where his wife is. I've laughed out loud every time I watched the scenes, and I've co-op'd Gears several times. Who needs intentional cheese when we've got more unintentional then we could possibly ask for? ;p

And I realize too late that I squandered a perfect opportunity to use a goddammit joke, goddammit.

It's not the best game, but it suffered from reviewers not even knowing what the roguelike genre is. I enjoyed it quite a bit, although it did get pretty repetitive.

I've only played it for a few minutes, so I can't say (also, I agree with Derboo that it should be able to be both).

I hate Ikaruga, though, so I've never been terribly interested.