Isaac has to fight his way through the Ishimura to save his girlfriend and, of course, “the day”. This Black Marker is a manmade object of unknown origin and was found at the bottom of the Yucatan Peninsula on earth back in 2008, getting inside a person’s mind and driving them crazy as well as being able to alter the subject’s DNA. “Why don’t we just drill on them?” you ask, well you wouldn’t eat a Cadbury’s Creme Egg with a straw would you? Turns out that everything went to shit on the Ishimura a religious group known as unitologoists had excavated something known as the Black Marker (which they worship).

The Ishimura is a type of ship known as a planet cracker and mankind is now in the business of ‘cracking’ planets because we ran out of resources on earth. You play as Isaac Clarke, an engineer who was sent to help investigate and aid in getting the USG Ishimura up and running. What I will do though is bring you up to speed with the overall story of Dead Space and mention the first fifteen or so minutes of the games story. I’m not even going to hint at things that might happen because you’re just going to put together the pieces before the twist. So, to make it safe for you to read if you’re one of those people that doesn’t read reviews because something might get spoiled, you’ll be ok to read my Dead Space 2 review it’s safe.

You know you shouldn’t look but you do anyway.

Well, not spoilers as such only an arse would put an actual spoiler in a review, but of the odd one or two that do they might flag it with a SPOILER WARNING in big bold text, which is the gaming equivalent of car crash at the side of the road. PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows

Dead space story summary