comical
Found the Dead Space comics on-line… Read through them during my lunch break… Now I really want to play that game.
The comics are a prequel to the game itself. They tell the story of a mining colony that’s been in operation for about two years. They’re preparing for something called a “planet crack” – if I had to guess, I’d say that they split the whole planet into bits and refine pretty much everything. Just a week or two before the ship shows up for the planet crack they find some kind of marker stone on the planet.
The marker stone starts having an odd affect on people… Folks can’t sleep and start having horrible visions. There’s some kind of religious movement associated with the marker. And it starts to look like the mining colony was set up with the purpose of uncovering the marker stone.
The mining ship shows up, they do the planet crack thing, and all hell breaks loose. People start dying, monsters running around, communication is lost… And that’s about the time they send in the repair team that starts the gameplay.
The monsters look like something out of The Thing. They’re red and gristley and mutate constantly. They don’t seem to want to die. They keep getting back up.
The story though, reminds me an awful lot of Aliens. You’ve got a mining colony being run by a company with ulterior motives… They’re sent to investigate something odd… Everything goes to hell, communication is lost, and someone is sent in to pick up the pieces… It sounds just like the opening of Aliens.
I really wish there was some sort of demo available. I’d really like to see if the controls are as bad as they say. And if nothing else it’d sate some of my curiosity about the game itself.