Dead Space Monday - Isaac Clarke

Up next in this issue, let us dive into more details about the main character. Yes, the name's Isaac Clarke. So you might all be thinking, "what's so special about him?"

Well, in every story, even movies, there will bound to be a main character which events, stuffs, people related substories revolve around him. Same for Dead Space, and as a player of the game, we will be seeing through his eyes, controlling him throughout the single player missions as the story unfolds. I have, below, created a short biography about him which, more will be updated as game production progresses.



Name: Isaac Clarke
Age: Unknown
Occupation: Space engineer
Company: Concordance Extraction Corporation (a resource mining company)
Space suit: The Rig

In other games like Halo, Gears of war or even Doom, main characters like master chief and Marcus Fenix have one thing in common. Yes, that is big plated titanium like, kick ass armor on their bodies. But in "Dead Space", Isaac Clarke is just a space engineer working for a certain company, and to have him designed for kick ass suit would mean he is no different from a Marine.

The developers see in line with that issue and decided, "Hey, he is an engineer so make him more engineer like!" Secondly, the suit serves as a breathing support system when he is out in space, plus the additon of the relavant plasma cutter (futurish cutter in like 400 years later) and other tools namely, stasis gun which help him in his everyday work. More about abilities later on. Right now, I hope this sheds some light on the design aspects for Isaac Clarke. Below is the final design for Isaac's space suit, The Rig.

Main features of the suits are, self support breathing system, a gravity boots and basic armor protection like the face mask. The suit also serves as a remote network system to retrieve information, video transmissions and any form of objectives/updates. And an inbuilt AI to track Isaac's health and other relevant self information for general surrounding awareness.

From the latest design sketches, it's pretty common sense that, spinal attachments of the suit are additional and may serve as additional air supply, more armor or health tracking, on my point of view that is. A pretty decent sketch I would say, which reflects the effort put in by the designers, to be as realistic as possible.

That's about it for now, on the next update, I will post more about the weapons & abilities, plus the creatures in Dead Space..