The reason that I can’t escape the image is that both Dead Space games have reinforced this particular form of body horror for me.
This image, while certainly not a forgettable one, had managed to seep into some largely unused portion of my memory though, when I finally got the chance to return to playing Dead Space and its sequel Dead Space 2. It is hard to forget an 80-foot femininely formed atrocity that belched demons from its nipples. The image of the first boss in the game, Lust, however, did manage to sear itself into my brain pretty clearly, though. In this case, I was less thrilled about the look of the game (Hell seemed a little strangely sterile, repetitive, and empty to me), and the gameplay left me largely cold. I knew that the visuals seemed pretty good, the UI and HUD systems seemed pretty neat and innovative, and, oh yeah, it seemed fairly gross, but it is a horror game after all.įollowing that, my next experience with a Visceral title was with Dante’s Inferno, another game that I ended up not spending a lot of time with. I believe that my first experience with a game developed by Visceral was with the first Dead Space, which I began playing around the time of its release, but having been bogged down with other gaming obligations, I ended up playing too little of it to have had a clear impression of it at the time. That painting is composed of an awful lot of twisted flesh and bodily fluids, though. Masculinity in the Dead Space universe is pretty minimally represented in a fairly stereotypical way by the aggressive ( but ever handy) Isaac Clarke.įemininity in this series, however, seems to be grotesquely and decorously painted all over the virtual walls of this and (to some degree at least) Visceral’s other recent game offering, Dante’s Inferno. This discussion of several of Visceral Games products, Dante’s Inferno, Dead Space, and Dead Space 2 does contain major spoilers, especially in the case of the latter two games.
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