Overview
How to bypass having to finish the game to play the hardest difficulty.
It’s simple.
Go to: C:Users(Whatever your User name is)AppDataLocalElectronic ArtsDead Space
Or: Just paste %localappdata%Electronic ArtsDead Space into the file explorer address bar.
Open: The Settings file therein.
Change: ‘Game.Played = 0’ To ‘Game.Played = 1’
That’s it, enjoy. 2 hours of browsing online for this and no one else that I could find posted this information anywhere. So I did my own looking in the files. Viola, it’s that easy.