The first of three graphic novel books, it is by far the best. It’s violent stuff, very similar to Mike Huddleston’s artwork in his Strain comic book horror series, but this should appeal to the 2 million players of the underlying game on either Playstation 3, Xbox 360 or Microsoft Windows. Crew members begin going through changes with cult-like effects resulting in all sorts of gory deaths, all consistent with the Dead Space gaming universe.
When a team encounters the first of what would be three giant alien “markers,” a dwindling religion surfaces among the ship’s crew. Written by Antony Johnston–the same writer who scripted the dialogue for the video game–with art by Ben Templesmith, Dead Space is a mixture of sci-fi horror dread and the real-world workings of a ship like you’d find in Prometheus or 2001: A Space Odyssey. In 2008 EA also ventured into graphic novels, publishing a comic book series prequel collected in the Dead Space graphic novel, now available in a trade edition from Titan Books. The February 2013 release Dead Space 3 brings along with it a new graphic novel series tie-in: Dead Space: Liberation. Clarke was as an engineer on an interstellar mining starship called the USG Ishimura, where he found himself stuck with some undead creatures called Necromorphs in a setting straight out of Ridley Scott’s Alien. In the game, players followed along literally over the shoulder of Isaac Clarke–named for science fiction writers Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Dead Space was big, selling more than 2 million copies. In 2008 EA released a very different and modern third-person shooter, science fiction horror survival game called Dead Space. Today’s EA provides games with stunning 3D level immersive experiences. Electronic Arts was at the cutting edge of video games back in the 1980s.
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