With the Ishimura stranded in a remote stretch of space and its dozens of emergency craft jettisoned, the few surviving crew members are trapped with hundreds - maybe thousands - of the ravenous, unrelenting undead. This is just the first stage of the outbreak, though the bodies of the dead are soon consumed.mutated into necromorphs with dozens of razor-sharp fangs, two-foot-long bony spikes jutting out of their palms, and spade claws bursting out of their abdomens.

Technicians once cold and detached start slaughtering one other, and muttering something about how 'they' want warm bodies to house them, crewmen mutilate themselves. Shortly after this relic is removed, an unusual spike in violence and suicides ravages the colony and soon spreads to the Ishimura. The USG Ishimura - a colossal mining ship that splits entire planets down the middle to extract the minerals and rare ores housed inside - takes this enormous artifact onboard for further study by church scholars on Earth, further dividing the different religious factions on the ship. Game Dead Space is so cinematic in its own right - think of some disturbing hybrid of Aliens, Event Horizon, The Thing, and Resident Evil - that it seems kind of appropriate that its backstory would be fleshed out in a feature length film.ĭead Space: Downfall opens with the discovery of some sort of religious relic on the otherwise barren world of Aegis-7.

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