Robinson cited various novels and movies being the inspiration behind DEAD SPACE such as John Carpenter’s The Thing, Ridley Scott’s Alien, and Paul Anderson’s Event Horizon. The book covers all three games including the graphic novel. Ian Milham commented about preliminary sketches and thtn Visceral began on the game around 2006. They could easily pass as finished samples, making you wonder if these artists are geniuses, especially the paintings of the USG Ishimura. Unlike Fire Emblem – Knights of Iris and Monster Hunter Illustrations however, the concept art are rendered in a complete style rather than as a process. The text, while interesting to reach inside the thinking process of these game makers, it is completely eclipsed by the concept art. Published by TITAN BOOKS and written by Martin Robinson, following commentary by those who worked on the series such as creative director and production designer Ben Wanat, artist Chi-Wai Lao, art director Iam Milham, and more, the Art of Dead Space is a fine antique, 190 page worth, of expressing fear through dark digital art. To quote my niece – “This is disgusting.” Dead Space began in 2008, extending into a trilogy that followed the tribulations of mechanic Issac Clarke.

Much of that dark, dripping atmosphere is covered within 2013’s The Art of Dead Space.

It’s foundations are in the depths of both cinema and literature.

It can be described with such a simple term such as “dark”. When EA Visceral created Dead Space, which is described as “Resident Evil in Space”, following a line of hardcore third person games by this company, its Staff can’t help but often comment about how the game’s goal is to trigger the claustrophobic senses within an unknown world. What is more disturbing than a twisted nursery rhyme? Easily one of the best openings in any video game, least to my standards.

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