Mark Rollins Writes:
"In Dead Space you play Issac Clarke (an obvious homage to great the science fiction masters Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke), a repairman who is sent on a maintenance mission to a city-sized mining ship. Of course, these repairs are never as simple as a replacing a burned-out circuit board. No, this ship has been infected by some unknown alien organism that has turned the crew into horrific zombies. And these zombies aren't the human type you'd see in Left 4 Dead but creatures distorted beyond all humanity.
At first I thought that Dead Space was just another zombie shooter game but Clarke does not carry a gun. Instead, he has to make do with his futuristic power tools. For example, he has this one device that can send a spinning circular saw blade at opponents and it is a definite weapon of mass carnage. There is also a plasma torch that can act as a flame-thrower and a device that can levitate objects and shoot them. In fact, one time I caught and shot a human head with this weapon. I think you'd actually have to do this in order to capture the sense of wonder and horror I felt at that moment."
