The game opens with you walking through the snow, centuries in the past, on a world called Tau Volantis. Which brings us to Dead Space 3, the most recent and, in some ways, least loved of the franchise. Like I said in a previous post, Isaac Clarke, is Dave Lister in hell.

Isaac Clarke isnвЂ™t just an astronaut, heвЂ™s an engineer, a man used to solving problems with the best tool he has, his brain. The fact that Isaac constantly has to use his ingenuity to defend himself far more than the traditional parade of firepower you get in games like this. But the real kicker, for me, is the arc welder. ItвЂ™s a perfect, almost binary image, the two competing schools of thought in the game wrapped up in one piece of art. Science, and specifically, engineering, versus a particularly twisted kind of faith, the sort that rewards belief in it with a prolonged death. That image, for me, sums up everything I love about the Dead Space games. What heвЂ™s firing is, of course, an arc welder. Isaac is flying backwards, aiming down his body at them and firing as he goes. The Necromorphs, the warped, stretched creatures that take a human body and turn it into something designed to kill as horrifically as possible.

Behind him, a nightmare of bony swords and skinned bodies is erupting from the ship IsaacвЂ™s making his escape from. The image above is s a piece of concept art from Dead Space 2 and it shows Isaac Clarke, surely the most unlucky hero in modern science fiction games, boosting out into hard vacuum.

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