The necromorphs taking over the ship aren't your run-of-the-mill zombies, either-going for the headshot doesn't slow them down, and in most cases can actually make them stronger.

Isaac isn't a trained soldier or fighter and instead needs to rely on the armored protection of his spacesuit and the deadly lethality of makeshift weapons and engineering equipment to survive. He sets about fixing the Ishimura in order to escape the nightmare while searching for any clue as to his girlfriend's whereabouts.Ī survival-horror game, Dead Space prioritizes careful precision in combat.

However, the situation quickly spirals out of control, as Isaac discovers the Ishimura has been overrun with the mutated corpses of its crew. Isaac has a personal stake in the mission-his girlfriend, Nicole Brennan, is the Ishimura's senior medical officer. In Dead Space, you play as Isaac Clarke, an engineer assigned to a crew that is responding to a distress signal from the USG Ishimura, a mining vessel. Survival-horror fans are feasting right now, that's for sure. That gives you enough time to finish up this year's The Callisto Protocol and Signalis if you've been planning to and creates some distance between Dead Space and Capcom's Resident Evil 4 remake, which is scheduled to launch March 24, 2023.

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