Isaac Clarke’s suit is still used as a HUD, and there are plenty of new suits to find.Isaac Clarke returns as the main protagonist.To keep things simple, I’m just going to offer a simple breakdown of what I would and wouldn’t like to see in Dead Space 4. And while some of these ideas sound interesting, I’m no fan of them shifting the focus away from Isaac Clarke as the main protagonist. However, according to one of the developers, we do have some idea as to what was being planned. I’m no sci-fi writer, so I’m not going to sit here and suggest what the Dead Space 4 plot would be. Dead Space will forever have its mark on our family.ĭead Space 4. And so, when our son was born, we named him Isaac, after Dead Space’s Isaac Clarke. At one point between gaming sessions, I turned to my wife and asked, “What about the name Isaac if it’s a boy?” She loved it. “Isaac”… “Isaac”… The name infected my brain. While playing Dead Space 2, the world would often whisper the protagonist’s name. My wife and I had no less than a dozen or so potential baby names… but we could not come to an agreement on a boy’s name.
It was truly one of the greatest games I had ever played. I enjoyed the first Dead Space, but something about the sequel just completely absorbed me. I brought my Xbox 360 with me and was playing the recently released Dead Space 2.
We booked into a hotel, which would be our home while we waited for our firstborn to have their “Hello World” moment. The town we lived in didn’t have an adequate maternity ward, so, a few weeks before the due date, we had to drive four hours south, in the dead of winter, to a larger community. In February 2011, my wife and I were expecting our first child.