Dead Space category
Story Guides
17 entries tagged Story Guides, 17 of them long reads. The rest of the wiki points here most often at Dead Space 2 Story Explained: Plot Summary and Ending and Dead Space Story Explained: Plot Summary and Ending.
- Dead Space Chapters: the Story of All 12 ChaptersDead Space has 12 chapters, from New Arrivals to Dead Space, and the 2023 remake keeps the same names and order. This is what happens in each one, with full spoilers and notes on where the remake tells it differently.
- How Did Isaac Destroy the Marker in Dead Space?It depends which Marker. Isaac never destroys Marker 3A in the first game, he puts it back. The Marker he destroys is the Site 12 Marker in Dead Space 2, by refusing to die for it and fighting it inside his own head. Here's how each game handles it, original and remake.
- How Did the Marker Get on Aegis VII?People put it there. The Marker on Aegis VII, Marker 3A, was a man-made copy of the alien Black Marker, grown by the Sovereign Colonies government about two centuries before Dead Space and planted on the remote planet as an experiment. Here is how it got there, and how it ended up on the Ishimura.
- Is Isaac Clarke in Dead Space: Aftermath?Barely. Isaac never appears on screen or speaks in the 2011 animated film. He's mentioned near the end as the crazed survivor EarthGov found on a shuttle, and his name is on a stasis pod bound for Titan. Here's where he fits.
- What Happened to Isaac Clarke After Dead Space 3?Nobody knows for sure. Isaac survived the fall at the end of Dead Space 3, and in the Awakened DLC he flew home with John Carver, only to find the Brethren Moons already attacking Earth. The story stops there. Here is what the main ending and Awakened show.
- What Happened to Nicole Brennan?Nicole Brennan killed herself aboard the USG Ishimura during the outbreak, before Isaac Clarke ever arrived. The Nicole he follows through Dead Space is a hallucination made by the Marker, and it haunts him again in Dead Space 2. Here is what happened to her, and to the vision that wore her face.
- Why Did Isaac Clarke Go to the Ishimura?Isaac went to the USG Ishimura as the engineer on a CEC repair team sent to fix its communications blackout, but his real reason was Nicole Brennan, his girlfriend and the ship's senior medical officer. Here's the job, the message and what the 2023 remake adds.
- Why Is Isaac Clarke Silent in Dead Space?Isaac is only silent in the original 2008 Dead Space, where he has no lines at all. Dead Space 2 gave him a voice, Gunner Wright's, and the 2023 remake keeps it but rations it. Here's what the games do and what the developers said about it.
- Dead Space Story Explained: Plot Summary and EndingThe full story of Dead Space, from the Kellion's crash on the Ishimura to Isaac Clarke's escape from Aegis VII, with the ending explained and every way the 2023 remake changes it.
- Dead Space 2 Story Explained: Plot Summary and EndingThe full story of Dead Space 2, from Isaac Clarke waking in a straitjacket on Titan Station to the fight inside his own head, with the ending and the post-credits call explained.
- Dead Space 3 Ending Explained, Including AwakenedWhat happens at the end of Dead Space 3, what the Brethren Moons are, and how the Awakened DLC ends the series with the Moons over Earth. The full plot is here too, in order.
- Dead Space: Aftermath (2011 Film) ExplainedThe animated film that links Dead Space to Dead Space 2, explained from start to finish: what the O'Bannon found on Aegis VII, how Nolan Stross lost his family, and why only one of the four survivors walked away with his mind and his life.
- Dead Space: Downfall (2008 Film) ExplainedThe animated prequel to Dead Space, explained from start to finish: how Marker 3A came aboard the Ishimura, how the outbreak destroyed the ship, and why Alissa Vincent's last act drew Isaac Clarke in.
- Dead Space: Extraction Story Explained: Plot Summary and EndingThe full story of Dead Space: Extraction, the prequel that follows a handful of survivors from the dying Aegis VII colony onto the infested Ishimura, and what its bleak final scene means for Lexine and Gabe.
- Dead Space Games in Order: Release Order and Story OrderEvery Dead Space game in release order and in story order, from the 2008 original to the 2023 remake, plus the spin-offs, films, novels and comics that fill the gaps. The main trilogy runs in story order, so the questions are where the spin-offs fit and whether to start with the remake.
- Dead Space: Ignition Story ExplainedThe story of Dead Space: Ignition, the branching prequel that follows the engineer Franco Delille across Titan Station on the night the Necromorphs got loose, and why every path ends at Isaac Clarke's cell door.
- Dead Space Story Explained: the Whole Saga in OrderThe Dead Space story from start to finish, in story order. The prequel novels, the three main games, the films and the key spin-offs, with how each one ends and where the saga stands now.