The inside of the ship, unsurprisingly, looks like a vessel that has cracked a lot of planets. Those on board then use a variety of tools - the same tools Isaac uses to sever flesh and bone - to separate the valuables from the rock. Its sole purpose is to punch into the surface of a planet to wrench out its shiny guts. The people who designed it thought about the people who would live on it as an afterthought, and boy howdy ain’t that realism in its most unsubtle form. They are indicative of a society that cares little for its workers, and with an exasperated sigh, I realised that the Ishimura is even more believable than I remember. Rows upon rows of empty bunk beds, crammed together in tiny rooms in the dingiest corner of an already dingy ship. When Peng entered the national dialect, I genuinely thought it was a Dead Space reference because I am broken on a fundamental level.īut this time around, I found myself particularly struck by the crew quarters.

The Ishimura is still a magnificent feat of environment design, despite the posters for the mysterious “Peng” carrying different connotations than they did fifteen years ago. Revisiting the game this week in preparation for the upcoming remake, I was pleased to see my memories hadn’t fooled me. You, too, were a functional part of this larger machine.

Someone who understood the joints and brackets that held everything together. And it helped that you, protagonist Isaac Clarke, were an engineer. Medical was evenly divided between clinics that helped with ailments of both the mind and the body. Suitcases were strewn around the arrival lounge. Engineering sat by the engines, because of course it did. Every room provided understandable context. Every section of the ship justified its placement within the wider whole. When I first played Dead Space back in 2008, I became infatuated with the Ishimura. Comfortably familiar, but excellent nonetheless. Manage cookie settings This is the Dead Space you remember but with a brilliant new sheen, luxuriously improved in small but considered ways. To see this content please enable targeting cookies.

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