Videogame horror Review-Dead Space Franchise Main Entries
By Aaron Perez Published: 3/13/2025 Image Credit: Motive Studios, Electronic Arts Warning: Spoilers Created by the now defunct Viseral Games, Dead Space is a survival horror videogame franchise that takes place centuries in the future. It spans three major games, a couple of spinoffs, and a remake created by Motive Studios. The first game, and its remake begin on an isolated planet called Aegis 7, which is the setting of an illegal mining operation for a planet cracker class vessel named the Ishimura. The Ishimura loses all communication with the parent company CEC, which dispatches a repair crew on another vessel named the Kellion. After a malfunction, the Kellion crashlands on the Ishimura's hangar bay, and it is revealed that the ship has been infested by monsters named necromorphs. It's sequel, Dead Space 2, follows up years later on Titan Station, which is orbiting Saturn and has an even bigger infestation of necromorphs. Dead Space 3, the weakest of the trilogy, tried to...