It was well-received, with critics praising the innovative combat, beautiful graphics, and intense story. The game made its first press appearance in 2007 and hit store shelves in October 2008, just in time for Halloween. At first, it was bound for the original Xbox, but when the new generation hit, the game made the jump immediately. Redwood began development in 2005, building it around the Godfather engine. Let's make a survival-horror game in space.' Electronic Arts has never been known for releasing survival-horror, and Redwood Studios only did licensed work, like The Godfather and The Simpsons.īut somehow, a group of people sat down and said, 'We love sci-fi. It's ships like the Ishimura - and the dedication of the men and women who crew her - that have helped make Concordance Extraction Company the trusted, dependable workhorse that it is today.ĭead Space is a game that just kind of happened. Whenever an important deep space mining project comes up and the Ishimura is available, she's the first ship to be called. Despite the long years of service, she is still the pride of the fleet and remains the largest Planet Cracker in the fleet. Many spaces have been retrofitted to take advantage of modern advances in technology. Much of the equipment has been upgraded over the years. Using huge gravity tethers, the Ishimura can lock onto asteroids and pull them inside the ship's massive collection bays for smelting.Īt 62 years old, the Ishimura is still in remarkable shape. She was also the first ship capable of the 'scan and catch' technique for harvesting mineral-rich asteroids. She was created to mine and melt down entire small planets and moons. The Ishimura was the first vessel of her size to utilize the Shockpoint drive for large-scale, commercial, deep space expeditions.Īt the time of her inception, the Ishimura was hailed as the savior of the Earth colonies. Built 62 years ago, she has a long and storied career. The USG Ishimura, named after astrophysicist Hideki Ishimura (inventor of the Shockpoint drive), was the first of the massive Planet Cracker ships. Looking to the stars for additional resources is nothing new, but at the time only smaller ships were Shockpoint-able and they were insufficient at keeping up with demand. There was a time when needs could barely be met by the now-extinct resources of Earth and the dwindling supplies of the colonies.

As many of our older readers may recall, resource management on Earth and on the colonies was not always as streamlined as it is today.

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