

It’s the thing that made him such an unusual protagonist in the original game he didn’t talk, he fixed things and had weapons that could conceivably have been used to fix things, if they weren’t busy dismembering the reanimated dead. ‘Isaac was a high-functioning spanner in a space suit.’ He is, it’s fairly obvious, both an action hero and a blue-collar guy, and despite the fact this film is a spoof or perhaps because of it he’s also an accurate symbolic representation of Dead Space hero Isaac Clarke as he appears in this latest game.

It features a man in a tuxedo pulling a James Bond pose, but instead of a pistol he’s holding a wrench. On a city street at the start of Dead Space 3, there’s a poster for a film called Tools Of Terror.
