The “infection”, if you like, spreads to the Ishimura almost as soon as the Marker is brought aboard and eventually a distress signal is sent out asking for help. Upon unearthing the Marker, the colonists on the planet become violent and mentally unstable, committing suicide and killing their fellow man en mass. A mining ship known as the USG Ishimura finds what the crew believe to be the Marker and begin extracting it from the planet Aegis VII. Called Unitology, (any resemblance to Scientology has been categorically denied by the developers) it claims that an artefact known as “the Marker” will bring about the unification of the human race to one mind, soul and purpose. A religion has been formed based on the visions of one Michael Altman. The story of Dead Space falls into the same (not uniquely) generic conspiracy theory storyline that seems to be dominating gaming nowadays (I’ll stop trying to be funny now) but the universe created for the game is fascinating. Developed and published by Electronic Arts, Dead Space was released on all platforms except the Wii ( Dead Space: Extraction released shortly afterwards, initially exclusively for the Wii) and is a survival horror third-person shooter. Dead Space was one of very few “horror” games to be released in 2008 and the horror genre has been distinctly lacking in recent years with Amnesia: The Dark Descent being the only real exception.
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