Dead Space (video game): Difference between revisions

[[Closed Circle|The game takes place in the Ishimura]], a spaceship of the Planet Cracker class, a series of ships which find mineral-rich planets and literally lift whole chunks of them into space for mining. During a mining excavation on a faraway planet, the miners discover a strange artifact of apparently alien origin. The artifact, dubbed the Marker, was apparently causing problems amongst the colonists who were working on the surface of the planet. Eventually, it's decided to transport the Marker to the Ishimura. [[It Got Worse|It did not end well.]]

 

 

What they find is the ostensive definition of [[Hell on Earth]] (or rather, {{smallcaps|[[In Space]]!}}): the crew of the ship has been annihilated by a series of creatures (dubbed Necromorphs by the Ishimura's scientists) who have [[The Virus|the ability to infect dead tissue to raise their numbers]]. This results in [[Zombie Apocalypse|zombie-like]] [[Body Horror|mutated monsters]] infesting the entire ship. Even worse is that there is apparently a cult called the Unitologists, who believe that the Marker is actually of divine origin. The name of the game is now not rescue, but survival: Isaac and the rest of the rescue team must now [[The Great Repair|find a way off the ship.]] Using his engineering skills and whatever [[Improvised Weapon|hastily-weaponized power tools]] he can find, Isaac must help his fellow survivors escape this hellish situation... [[Go Mad From the Revelation|if he doesn't crack first.]]