Hello people's. Today I'm reviewing one of my favorite video game series. Here it goes.

The game series is called Dead Space. Earth was dying when The Black Marker crash landed near the gulf of Mexico. It's a large alien artifact with two twisting spires covered in strange symbols. Michael Altman was the first to discover it and learned that prolonged exposure to it could cause insanity and homicidal reactions from humans and after they died they came back with their bones and flesh twisted in any way that made them better killers. They were called necromorphs. Michael Altman was killed for his knowledge about the marker and became a martyr for a new religion called Unitology. Unitologists believe that the markers are divine. The Black Marker was destroyed. EarthGov tried to replicate the marker to harness its limitless energy. They succeeded in making these new red markers and marker test labs spread out across the solar system. After the second Necromorph outbreak most of the red markers were lost somewhere out in space or destroyed.

(SPOILERS FOR DEAD SPACE 1). 200 years after the red Markers were lost a mining colony on Aegis VII discovered one. A planet cracker vessel called the Ishumera, sorry if that's spelled wrong, came and tore out a few miles of the planet with the marker, both the colony and the ship having no idea what the marker is. The Marker causes a Necromorph outbreak on the colony and the ship and during the disaster the plant peice and marker comes hurtling back to Aegis VII Isaac Clark is an engineer sent on a rescue mission. Isaac uses different mining equipment like the plasma cutter, or javelin gun, and many more weapons and learns that to kill the necromorphs you had to dismember them. After tracing the marker back to Aegis VII with the help of his girlfriend who was stationed on the Ishumera he manages to destroy the red marker and learns that his girlfriend was only a hallucination caused by the marker to twist Isaac into helping it and that she killed herself instead of being turned to a Necromorph before Isaac arrived. (SPOILERS FOR DEAD SPACE 2.) Isaac is captured by EarthGov because before he destroyed the marker it created a marker blueprint in his brain. Drugged for months and racked by violent dementia from the marker's influence on his brain Isaac is unknowingly forced to create another marker on The Sprawl, a colony on one of Jupiters moons. Once again, an outbreak begins on the Sprawl and Isaac journeys through the Sprawl in an attempt to destroy it with Ellie Langford, somone he meant there. Once they are near the marker Isaac forces Ellie to jettison away back to Earth in an effort to protect her and he goes off to destroy it. An enormous amount of necromorphs are being drawn to the marker for an event called Convergence. Isaac does not know what convergence is only that it is very bad. Isaac uses a machine to purge the markers influence from his brain and learns how to destroy it again. The Marker is destroyed just before the end of Convergence and Isaac is narrowly rescued by Ellie before the resulting explosion destroys all that's left of the Sprawl. (I'm not going to explain Dead Space 3 just for times sake. So I've recently beat the series on casual and now I'm attempting it on normal mode.

One of the mechanics in DS3 is the ability to create your own weapons. First you choose a frame, one handed or two handed. Next the two tools. Hitting R1 will shoot the upper tool and R2 shoots the bottom one. Next you put different tips on the tools to create different effects. For example if you use a military engine tool you can use different tips to create a shotgun, or machine gun, or a sniper rifle ect. You can do this for every tool. Next you add circuits to the frame which can increase damage, clip size, reload time, etc. Right now Ive made a two handed gun with a military engine for the upper tool and a telemetry spike for the bottom tool. I put the evangelizer conic dispersal tip on top to make the games best shotgun. I didn't put a tip on the bottom to create a regular javelin gun. I added damage circuits to max out the shotguns damage and clip size to the javelin gun. This way if somebody gets close the shotgun normally gets them in one hit and the javelin gun shoots much farther and can pin enemies to walls. My backup gun is a tesla core with diffraction torus over a survey charge with a directed expansion field. Big words, but it really just means a lightning gun over rocket launcher. So I had a dead space 2 save when I played dead space 3 which got me the planet cracker plasma cutter gun. It's the same as the series' most iconic weapon the plasma cutter but with the planet cutter tip which gives it a ton more damage. So for fun I dismantled it and replaced the bottom tool from a rotator cuff, (which turns the gun so you can shoot vertically), with the regular plasma cutter with a tip that made it a machine gun. So effectively I had the best plasma cutter in the game with the top dealing a lot of damage and the bottom for support because it shoots much faster than the planet cutter tip.

I love the Dead Space series and the horror aspects about it. Monsters are constantly popping out vents and scaring me. I encourage you to play the games but it is M so I wouldn't recommend it for anyone under 13 because of the violence. Bye.



By Ashton