![]() That’s where the Concordance Extraction Corporation comes in. The remaining humans realized that the only way to get new resources was from the stars: with Earth’s resources used up, the only way to gain the resources to survive would be to search new planets for resources. Earth has been through an extinction-level event, caused by rapacious and unsustainable use of resources. And if you’re already a Dead Space maven, just keep a-scrollin’ and I’ll tell you when you can stop.ĭead Space is set in 2507. Even if you haven’t played the games (and you should, unless you have a heart condition or something), I’ll try to make this accessible for you. This next bit is ripped straight from the Dead Space wiki. While the success and respect that the Alien franchise (one of Dead Space’s core inspirations) commands, and deservingly so, show that you don’t need to pepper a series with these effect-traits in order to make it believable, it certainly helps in ways that work on so many levels. In Dead Space 2, the Sprawl is populated by adverts for media within the universe, like music, candy… Movies you didn’t tell your parents you’re going to see… To me, that’s the perfect test of whether a fictional world succeeds or not: whether you can take it as-is, and the idea that real people could live there doesn’t shatter your suspension of disbelief. To speak of them in terms of world-building, they’ve made a derelict deep-space mining ship, a moon colony and other locales seem perfectly ‘livable’. The Dead Space games have been among my favourites for a while now. ![]() And because Dead Space is such a visceral series (no pun intended to developer Visceral Games), expect this one to be generously image-heavy. What I’m talking about today is going to strip it all bare. If you have yet to finish Dead Space 3, and don’t want to be spoiled, just go head on over yonder.
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