As engineer Isaac Clarke, you fight to survive the Necromorph infestation as you search for an escape - and for Dr. The ship has been overtaken by terrifying creatures called Necromorphs, and the rescue team is promptly separated from one another. A small crew employed by the Concordance Extraction Corporation is sent to investigate why the Ishimura has gone dark, only to find it in great distress. The story of Dead Space, heavily inspired by sci-fi horror films Alien, Event Horizon, and Sunshine, is mostly unchanged. But it is just a part of Motive’s re-engineering: Weapons, characters, and progression have all been rethought, resulting in the best possible version of Isaac Clarke’s trek through a veritable hell - and hopefully the revival of a horror game franchise that flamed out too soon.

It is undoubtedly the star of developer Motive Studio’s remake, a more believable and varied ship than the one seen in the original game. Its decks, quarters, and airlocks have been rebuilt in painstaking detail. This remake brings the Ishimura back to life in visually stunning ways. If you want curated lists of our favorite media, check out What to Play and What to Watch. When we award the Polygon Recommends badge, it’s because we believe the recipient is uniquely thought-provoking, entertaining, inventive, or fun - and worth fitting into your schedule. Gaming has been a regular hobby for the director especially as he's focused less on helming projects himself lately.Polygon Recommends is our way of endorsing our favorite games, movies, TV shows, comics, tabletop books, and entertainment experiences. He's also been busy exploring other games in his spare time, enjoying Bethesda's online RPG Fallout 76 and the more recent Horizon: Forbidden West. In the meantime, Carpenter is about to see his landmark horror franchise come to a close with Halloween Ends on October 14, marking the final fight between Laurie Strode ( Jamie Lee Curtis) and her boogeyman Michael Myers. The only real hope the film has of potentially coming together would be if the upcoming Dead Space remake renews interest in the franchise.

He'd be working in a similar ballpark with Dead Space, drawing horror from the fear that the terrifying creatures are lurking around the next corner. It's hard to look at the series' Necromorphs and not see similarities to the various forms of Carpenter's own creation. While it's unlikely to happen, Carpenter would be the perfect director to adapt Dead Space in part because of how well his own alien horror The Thing turned out.

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