![]() Ishimura as the engineer Isaac Clarke, only to find that almost all of its crew had been turned into “necromorphs” (just call them space zombies) by a mysterious alien artifact discovered on a distant planet. In the first game, as in the first film, the main character is tasked with investigating a gigantic marooned spaceship that has gone silent. If anything, the arc of the series so far resembles most closely that of the classic “Alien” film franchise. Dead Space 2, which is available for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Windows (I played mostly on Windows on a hunky rig from AMD), maintains the discipline of the original but orients it in a slightly different direction. Not over-cautiousness on the part of the designers, but a discipline to stay focused on providing the basics at a high level.” There is no sophomore slump here. ![]() Reviewing the original Dead Space in 2008, I wrote: “The one word that kept occurring to me in playing Dead Space was discipline.
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