Miraculously no one is killed, but the relief of the rescuers is short lived. A docking malfunction crashes the Kellion inside the landing bay of the planetcracker. Upon arrival things go wrong right from the start. The maintenance vessel Kellion is the one that’s been chosen to rendezvous with the Ishimura, and amongst the rescue party is engineer Isaac Clarke, whose girlfriend Nicole was part of the crew of the Ishimura. When contact is lost with the huge vessel, a rescue operation is sent out to investigate what’s caused the ship to go silent. One of those ships the ISG Ishimura is the oldest one of the fleet, and is currently out on an illegal mining operation at a remote planet called Aegis VII. Huge ships that have been named “Planet Crackers” are sent out to harvest resources from barren planets. The human race faces near extinction because most of the resources of Earth have been depleted. Guess we now know where the name “Planetcracker” comes fromĭead Space takes place in the far future, in the year 2508 to be exact where things haven’t exactly been going well for our home planet. That series was called Dead Space, and it truly captured the horror and claustrophobia that both science fiction classics were so famous for. With games becoming more and more realistic, and even at times are close to being like interactive movies, there was a particular game series that came out in 2008 that one could almost describe as being the lovechild of Aliens and The Thing. Well, helpless of course being a relative term, seeing as usually in games like that your player character had an overload of weaponry to fight them with. So it will come as no really big surprise then that in my gaming days I always enjoyed games that had an abundance of monstrosities that were unleashed upon a helpless player. The more grotesque or horrifying the creature is, the better I like it. There’s something that I have always loved about that scene, which probably has something to do with the fact that I’ve always been fascinated by monsters in films and books. Do you remember that scene from Aliens where the young girl Newt says to Ripley: “ My mommy always said there were no monsters-no real ones anyway-but there are, aren’t there?”.
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