Dead Space

[The Marker]

 

                                                                                                                 

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         Developer(s) EA Redwood Shores

         Publisher(s) Electronic Arts 

         Designer(s)  Glen Schofield, Bret Robbins

         Writer(s) Warren Elis, Rick Remender

         Composer(s) Jason Graves

         Series Dead Space

         Engine  Godfather engine, Havok (physics engine)

         Platform(s)Microsoft Windows

                                               

         Release date(s)October 13/20/23/24/2008 

                                               

         Genre(s)Third-Person Shooter, Survival Horror

 

         Mode(s)Single-Player

         Distribution:Bluray-Disc, DVD, download.

 

 

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Dead Space is a third-person shooter survival horror video game developed by EA Redwood Shores (now Visceral Games) for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, the game was released on all platforms through October 2008. The game puts the player in control of an engineer named Isaac Clarke, who battles the Necromorphs, reanimated human corpses, aboard an interstellar mining ship, the USGIshimura. The game was met with positive critical reception, and has sold over 2 million copies. Dead Space 2 and Dead Space 3 were released on January 25, 2011.

 

 

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Campaing:

 

 Set in the year 2414,  when the USG Ishimura (石村, lit. "Stone Village"), a "planetcracker" starship, sends out a distress signal to the Concordance Extraction Corporation (CEC) during a mining operation on the planet Aegis VII. The CEC dispatches the USG Kellion to investigate. After a guidance system malfunction crashes the Kellion into the Ishimura dock, the crew tries to seek other means of transport. As they explore what appears to be an abandoned ship, they are attacked by grotesque monsters, killing off all but ship systems engineer Isaac Clarke, Commander Zach Hammond, and Computer Specialist Kendra Daniels. Hammond notices that many of the ship's systems are failing; he and Kendra direct and assist Isaac in fixing them, so as to keep them all alive for rescue.

As Isaac Clarke moves about making the necessary repairs, he discovers various text and audio logs scattered throughout the ship, piecing together the events that transpired prior to their arrival: during the course of its illegal mining of Aegis VII, the Ishimura crew found the Red Marker, the most valuable relic of Unitology, an influential and powerful religion. Captain Mathius, a devout Unitologist, shifted focus, after being asked by the Church of Unitology, from mining to retrieving the Marker. Soon after the Marker's extraction to the Ishimura, humans from the planet's colony and the ship suffered from mass hysteria and violenthallucinations, before subsequently killing each other. Mathius cut off traffic and communications between the two sides, later going insane. Chief Science Officer Terrance Kyne tried to relieve Mathius of duty, only to accidentally kill the captain in a struggle. An alien virus, the genetic coding of which is encrypted on the Marker, then began ravaging the Aegis VII colony, infecting any available corpses and turning them into "Necromorphs" – mutated and reanimated corpses that violently slaughter uninfected humans to spread the infestation A colony shuttle carrying an infectious Necromorph caused the scourge to spread across theIshimura. Though Hammond states that he is unaware of what the Marker is, Kendra confides to Isaac that Hammond may be lying. Isaac later encounters his girlfriend Nicole Brennan, a medical officer aboard the Ishimura, though they are unable to meet. 

 

System requirements:

 

CPU: 2.8 GHz Pentium 4 or Equivalent

 

RAM:  Windows XP 1GB,Windows Vista 2GB

 

OS:Windows XP,Windows Vista, Windows 7

 

Video Card:256 MB (with pixel shader 3.0 support), NVIDIA GeForce 6800 or better (NVIDIA GeForce 7300, 7600 GS and 8500 are not supported); ATI X1600 Pro or better (ATI X1300, X1300 Pro and HD2400 are not supported).

 

Free Disk Space: 7.5 GB

 

 

 

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Reception:

 

Dead Space has received positive critical and commercial reception. Xbox World 360 awarded the Xbox 360 version a 91 out of 100, stating the game was a "nail-biting experience," driven forward by a "film-worthy" script and "inspired" setting, and that it was "Rapture in space: every bit as disturbing, just as meticulously designed and easily as believable." PlayStation World awarded the game 9/10 and a PSW gold award, stating that Dead Space is the "world's scariest game", saying "This is bold, bleak gaming from the haunting opening credits to the pulse pounding finish." IGN rated the game 8.7/10, saying it was "visually striking, everything from the holograms to the Necromorph is incredible." GameProawarded the game a 5/5.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited January 18, 2014 by Kristopher!#