USG Ishimura (Dead Space)
Is it a bit crazy to say that we’re in love with a gaming ship home to evil aliens that killed our friends and want to kill us too? Well, that’s too bad, because we are. Even though the original Dead Space is pretty much reading the script to Alien and Event Horizon and tweaking it, there’s no denying the new sense of creepiness that comes from arriving on the Ishimura for the first time to investigate a distress beacon and learning that things are far worse than you imagine.
The planetcracker turned horror show is also where Isaac’s girlfriend Nicole works, whose tragic fate makes the location all the more memorable. As Dead Space 2 showed us, it’s not a place that Isaac will ever truly be able to escape from; it’s a magnet of freaky and tragedy that will always come pulling him back. It’s only once he’s able to accept his guilt that he can truly escape the hold of the Ishimura, and in the end, isn’t that what love truly is? Being haunted by memories of your dead ex while also worrying about if someone with worse dementia than you is gonna put a screwdriver in your eye or a freakish monstrosity will tear your arms off for giggles?…Don’t answer that.
