Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Dead Space Preview


Action Trip has a preview up for Dead Space:
The game takes us some 400-500 years into the future. Humans are forced to scout for resources away from their homeplanet. Consequently, resources are being collected from other planets throughout the galaxy - this operation is called planet cracking. Miners are frequently sent out to establish colonies on dead planets. The mining procedure is simple: the planet is divided into colossal chunks, which are then smelted and processed until they are completely drained of all their resource potential; precious minerals and such. The process is, evidently, very complex and it usually takes several years to complete. The main character heads out into space to locate and investigate a mining ship, named Ishimura. The ship lost contact with Earth, but given the extensive period needed for mining, the loss of communication isn't considered a rare occurrence. Under such circumstances a second, smaller, mining crew is sent to the location to help restore communications and get the process going. As part of a routine maintenance inspection, another crew arrives, consisting of an engineer, scientist, security officers and a small number of additional personnel. Isaac Clarke (an obvious tribute to sci-fi authors Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke), the fully armored engineer from the screenshots, is doing his best to discover what went wrong on Ishimura. Pretty soon an unknown alien species attacks your team and starts turning them into hostile mindless abominations. Isaac must now fight to stay alive on the ship.


Dead Space First Look - Action Trip

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