I guarantee you it would be nearly impossible! I played the thing on casual difficulty, the setting that is even lower than normal and there were areas where I was struggling. Anyone who claims games of yesterday were more difficult because they did not have saves, try playing this and limiting yourselves to only three deaths.
Still, it had a nice story to it and it was fun going through the city in space as it had a lot of interesting levels in this one. Granted, this one has almost the exact game play as the first one in fact, for the most part it does not do many things differently from the first game at all. I enjoyed the first Dead Space a lot and overall I enjoyed this one too.
I have had this game for a while now, but have just gotten around to playing it.
