The world view of "Dead Space" is very grand, and the overall plot is dark and desperate.

The main content revolves around resources and the end of the world.

In the interstellar age with advanced technology, humans have over-exploited resources, causing the planet they live on to become increasingly depleted.

Over time, when human resources were insufficient, they began to plunder each other, leading to wars.

It can be seen that the lack of resources has made all countries anxious.

However, continuing like this is not an option.

The more wars there are, the faster resources are consumed.

Therefore, under the mediation of the United Nations, countries around the world reached a consensus and formed an alliance, the 'Sovereign Colonial Alliance'.

The result of this is that there are no longer countries in the world. Originally, the territories of each country were also called regions, such as North America and so on.

Subsequently, the Alliance established the "New Horizon Colony Base" on the moon to alleviate the increasing shortage of resources.

But people's exploration of the earth for resources continues.

After exploring the land, let’s explore the deep sea.

Thus, the fatal existence that spans multiple works of "Dead Space", the 'divine seal', was discovered.

The "Dead Space" series had high hopes from developers in the original world.

In addition to the trilogy with Isaac as the protagonist that players are familiar with, there are also mobile games, light gun shooting games, comics, animations, novels, etc. to complete the world view.

The protagonist Isaac that players know only exists in the "Dead Space" trilogy.

In other works, the protagonist is someone else.

But as the same protagonists, their fate was much worse than Isaac's.

They were either dead, missing, or dragged into experiments and executions by the Alliance government.

What's even worse is that he was accused of being a "terrorist" by the coalition government and pushed out as a scapegoat to appease the people.

In short, they survived at the hands of monsters, but died at the hands of humans.

However, the development of IP is too extensive, which leads to a shortcoming.

That is, a complete story appears fragmented, numerous and complex.

It would be okay if the other works of "Dead Space" are all animations, and players can slowly make up the plot.

But there are also comics, mobile games, and novels.

Except for true fans and people who specialize in plot analysis, who among ordinary players would calm down and understand it? Everyone is very busy.

For this reason, "Dead Space", released in 2008, left many players still confused after completing the game.

What is the divine seal?

What happened to the Ishimura?

What the hell is the Truth Religion?

What did Altman, the soul of this religion, do to deserve so many people’s belief and worship?

There are many more questions such as the above.

But soon, some players discovered a prequel animation called "Dead Space: Collapse".

It explains in detail what happened to the entire Ishimura spaceship before the first generation of "Dead Space".

In addition, two years later in 2010, a science fiction novel "Dead Space: Martyrs" was also released in the form of a prequel.

Through these, players learned about the origin of the ‘Divine Seal’ and the story of the ‘Truth Religion’.

This novel takes Altman, a university professor as the protagonist, and describes how he quit his job and came to the Chicxulub Crater to work as a small researcher in order to be with his girlfriend.

Then the divine seal was discovered here, and it was discovered that the divine seal could control people's thinking, and fanatical believers appeared among the people who were harmed.

These believers include not only scientists, but also high-level and security personnel of the research base, and even Altman's girlfriend.

Therefore, in order to save his girlfriend and himself, and for the sake of these fanatical believers who were controlled by the divine seal, while studying the divine seal, he held a press conference as a geologist to expose it to the society to expand its influence.

But the result of doing so is to be threatened and put under house arrest by powerful figures in the alliance government.

Altman is immune to the control of the divine seal due to the influence of the protagonist's halo.

And his performance was mistakenly believed by believers to be the messenger chosen by the divine seal, the prophet who came to lead them.

Therefore, a group of believers centered on Altman was born.

Altmann also took this opportunity to continue studying the divine seal.

Until one day, someone mutated into a necromorph, causing chaos in the base.

After Altmann escaped, he saw his girlfriend, but she was already an illusion.

This means that his girlfriend is dead and he has been affected by the divine seal.

After that, Altman received the information about the divine seal all the time. He was affected and seemed to understand what the divine seal was saying, so he drew the divine seal in the form of a blueprint.

However, he soon came to his senses and understood that the divine seal wanted people to copy him.

But one divine seal is already terrible. If there are more copies, human civilization will be destroyed.

Therefore, Altman deleted all the data about the divine seal and started the base's self-destruction program in order to blow up the divine seal.

But he was knocked unconscious by a sudden blow, and when he woke up again, he was already in an interrogation room.

The interrogator is a certain big shot, and all the data on the divine seal have been completely backed up.

He laughed at Altman's overestimation, and ignored Altman's warning about the horror of the divine seal and the fate of mankind's destruction. Instead, he released the monster sample on his own, devouring Altman and assimilating it.

At the end of the novel, because Altmann once held a press conference to expose the divine seal, the outside media identified him as a righteous person who dared to confront the alliance government.

Therefore, important figures in the alliance government took this opportunity to convey the benefits of the divine seal to the world in the name of Altman, explaining to the world that the divine seal can bring eternal life.

Then establish a truth religion with eternal life as its purpose to increase belief and propaganda in Altman, making him a "saint" who will be remembered for generations to come.

As for Altmann himself, he became a useless cold corpse and became the "martyr" in the title of the novel.

This novel tells the story of the discovery of the divine seal, the establishment of the Truth Religion, and Altman's own sacrifice.

Before the novel was published, many people believed that the Sect of Truth in the game, which had the slogan of "eternal life", was a cult and Altman was the leader of the cult.

As a result, after the novel was published, Altman was corrected. He was an anti-divine person, and the Shinrikyo religion was nothing more than wishful thinking.

However, the vehicle that completes the plot is a novel, not a game.

Many people don't even know that this book exists, so how can they understand the plot?

The same situation happened in "Dead Space 2".

As soon as many players entered the game and before they entered the state, they saw a man being devoured and mutated in front of the protagonist Isaac.

Players don't know who this man is until they clear the level.

Only later did I realize that the man who died at the beginning was the protagonist of "Dead Space: Burning".

He is an engineer like Isaac. In his own work process, in order to complete the orders from his superiors, he hid from corpses on the space station, shot his girlfriend, and finally rescued Isaac at the beginning of "Dead Space 2"

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Then the next second he was attacked by the necromorphs.

Many players who are playing "Dead Space 2" for the first time are confused.

Therefore, these protagonists from other Dead Space works not only complete the entire world view, but also explain what happened in the gap between the Isaac trilogy.

It can also be seen from this that the developers of "Dead Space" are very ambitious and want to create a huge IP.

But in the end, he was defeated by high-level strategies and disappeared.

For these novels, comics, and animation works, Meng Shu will not do it as it was in the original world.

He does not understand these industries, so rather than being too scattered, it is better to centralize production.

He will change all these novels, comics, and animation plots into DLC and add them to the main game.

In this way, players can have a comprehensive understanding of the entire worldview setting, instead of being scattered one to the east and one to the west.

As for the plot issue, in fact, the main plot of the first generation of "Dead Space" was very simple.

The main scene of the game, the "Ishimura", suddenly couldn't be contacted, so a mining company responsible for the Ishimura's work urgently dispatched a team of

A maintenance team went to investigate.

In the group, there is Isaac, the protagonist of the trilogy.

In addition to providing technical support, his purpose in coming to Ishimura was to find his girlfriend.

When a group of people arrived at the Shicun, they found that there were corpses everywhere, and there were corpses everywhere that they had never seen before.

In order to survive, Isaac, a mute tool man who could not speak, began his own journey to become the God of War.

During this period, we were fighting and killing each other, going from point A to point B. During this period, we also released a regenerating monster into the universe because it couldn't be killed.

It wasn't until halfway through the process that it was discovered that the Ishimura was already a ghost ship. So the protagonist Isaac ran to release a signal for help, which attracted the patrol battleship "Courage".
To be continued...