I'm ready. Make me whole.
Oct. 18th, 2008 01:48 pmOh, if I played videogames and I wasn't scared of survival horror, I would totally play Dead Space. I don't usually fall victim to ad campaigns, but seriously?
"Set in the distant future, Dead Space revolves around Isaac Clarke, a space engineer who works for the Concordance Extraction Corporation (C.E.C), a company that operates giant mining ships throughout the galaxy. His company receives a distress call from the USG Ishimura, a “Planet Cracker” class ship that destroys planets in order to extract valuable ore. Assuming that a mechanical failure is the only problem, Isaac and two other C.E.C employees set out to rendezvous with the Ishimura. However, they discover that the ship has been overrun by Necromorphs, a hostile alien race dependent upon necrotic flesh. Separated from his party, Isaac must survive the Necromorph infestation and battle his way to safety through the Ishimura's various environments."
I spent like an hour researching the backstory yesterday. There's all this stuff about the Necromorphs coming out of "markers", which had previously been used to start a new religion, Unitology, that "taught the truth about human existence". The new marker that unleashes all the Necromorphs is thought by the Unitologists to be the "next step in human evolution, a new life beyond death". And well, it is that, because the Necromorphs kill people and infest their bodies, mutating the flesh into something monstrous and animate - basically an alternate explanation for zombies, except here the zombies look like human-Xenomorph hybrids.
It's like 2001 meets Alien. How beautiful.
"Set in the distant future, Dead Space revolves around Isaac Clarke, a space engineer who works for the Concordance Extraction Corporation (C.E.C), a company that operates giant mining ships throughout the galaxy. His company receives a distress call from the USG Ishimura, a “Planet Cracker” class ship that destroys planets in order to extract valuable ore. Assuming that a mechanical failure is the only problem, Isaac and two other C.E.C employees set out to rendezvous with the Ishimura. However, they discover that the ship has been overrun by Necromorphs, a hostile alien race dependent upon necrotic flesh. Separated from his party, Isaac must survive the Necromorph infestation and battle his way to safety through the Ishimura's various environments."
I spent like an hour researching the backstory yesterday. There's all this stuff about the Necromorphs coming out of "markers", which had previously been used to start a new religion, Unitology, that "taught the truth about human existence". The new marker that unleashes all the Necromorphs is thought by the Unitologists to be the "next step in human evolution, a new life beyond death". And well, it is that, because the Necromorphs kill people and infest their bodies, mutating the flesh into something monstrous and animate - basically an alternate explanation for zombies, except here the zombies look like human-Xenomorph hybrids.
It's like 2001 meets Alien. How beautiful.