Don´t forget. Main hero is like Casey Ryback. If you didn´t seen a corpse, he isn´t dead.

I'm starting to believe that Isaac is in fact a cover up for Chuck Norris to finally appear on video games. On Dead Space 2, Isaac won't use the Plasma Cutter nor the Line Gun to kill necromorphs, he'll cut their limbs off just by throwing pure awesomeness towards them.

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so you sound a lot more knowledable about DS then i am.  mind giving me a recap of the ending cause when i played DS it was over almost 2 months and by the time i finshed the game i was kind of confused.

...so the gravemind was putting visions into issac's head in order to get issac to bring the marker back and kill all of the neromorphs.  and at the same time the gravemind was controlling all of the necromorphs to try and kill issac and keep him from getting the marker?  for me something didn't compute correctly. 

Well, I played the game almost a year ago, but I still remember most of the story from the game.

There are two markers, one that was found on the surface of the planet and one that was copied by that crazy Church like cult. In theory, the original marker contained DNA information and codification about a new life form, which at the time wasn't known to be either Alien or Human. The Church or Cult, having immense influence over main scientist and key elements in the research center, had a smaller copy created (the one you see in the end of the game) so that they could send it back to earth, as proof that their message was indeed true, but the real reason was to unlock the true power of the Marker.

Now, the Marker (the original one) was actually not just codificated DNA, but a codificated Virus, which was activated once it was copied into the smaller Red Marker. That's what caused the first visions and deaths of the people inside the Research Station on the planet. As people died, the recombinant DNA of the Marker mixed with human DNA, creating the first Infectors, which in turn created pure strands of Necromorph DNA. As the infection spread throughout the base and all of the people dying, some of them tried to escape unto the Ishimura, but an Infector got into the single ship that made it back to the Ishimura, thus spreading the infection throughout the ship.

Nicole was there on the Ishimura, the only person to actually have a link to the rescue crew, as Kendra and Hammond didn't have any connection to it (other than Kendra being in the service of the cult or Church, thus knowing the true extension of the power of the Red Marker)
It is believed that the gravemind is in fact the embodiment of the entire codificant DNA of the Original Marker, thus released when the Red Marker was released as well. Until then, it acted as a form of consciousness that spread amongst either the Necromorphs and Humans alike.

One theory can be that the Gravemind sensed the presence of Isaac throughout the control of Nicole's Consciousness, but not knowing completely his intentions, considered him as just another human being. Another theory can be that Nicole is in fact more than just a simple Necromorph and that there is another strand of Necromorph DNA that mutated when it was copied from the original marker to the Red Marker, thus the visions that Isaac had was just a way to guide him to the Original Marker, and destroy it, thus Nicole's Necromorph DNA could become the dominant one.

I absolutely loved Dead Space. The sequel news made my day!

okay, interesting.  that DS anime is on netflix instant download, i think i'm going to watch that tonight. xD

@kitler53

You really should, Dead Space Downfall is really amazing and fills a lot of holes in the history of the game :) Plus, if you can find the comics you should give them a look as well. I don't know if they are still up on either the PSN or the XBL unfortunately :(

I really hope this sells a lot better than the first one.

I agree. I think it'll pull and Uncharted 2 and have a much bigger first week then the original. From there it'll have modest legs.

I mean the wii sold an amazing extraction 9000 copies, it had legs