Gameplay-wise, Dead Space shares a lot of similarities with Resident Evil 4. Using his engineering skills and whatever hastily-weaponized power tools he can find, Isaac must help his fellow survivors escape this hellish situation. The name of the game is now not rescue, but survival: Isaac and the rest of the rescue team must now find a way off the ship. The crew of Ishimura has been annihilated by Necromorphs - creations of the Marker who infect dead bodies to reproduce and evolve - and the entire ship is infested with reanimated corpses that refuse to stay down. What Hammond's crew finds is a terrifying deathtrap. Clarke also has a personal reason for undertaking the mission: his girlfriend Nicole Brennan is part of the Ishimura's crew, and he fears for her safety.

Along with him are two engineers, tasked with helping repair any damage done to the Ishimura that might have caused the distress call: systems engineer Kendra Daniels and mechanical/electronic engineer Isaac Clarke (yes, the name is a reference). Luckily (or not), a distress call successfully goes off, and a maintenance crew, led by Sergeant Zach Hammond, is sent to assist the ship.

Eventually, it's decided to transport the Marker to the Ishimura. The artifact, dubbed the Marker, was apparently causing problems amongst the colonists who were working on the surface of the planet. During an excavation on a faraway planet, the miners discover a strange artifact of apparently alien origin. The game takes place on the Ishimura, a spaceship of the Planet Cracker class, a series of vessels which find mineral-rich planets and lift whole chunks of them into space for mining. It is the first game in the Dead Space series.

'Though I know not what you are, twinkle, twinkle, little star.'ĭead Space is a video game released for the PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in 2008.

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