EA and Anchro Bay recently announced that there will be another Dead Space animated film hitting dvd and blu-ray. Entitled Dead Space: Aftermath, the film will hit on January 25th to coincide with the release of Dead Space 2.
Of course, the saner among us will stop and remember how bad Dead Space Downfall was and cringe a bit at the thought of another animated take on the material, especially since producer Joe Goyette and supervising director Mike Disa are returning. Once again it will be developed by Film Roman and feature everyone’s favorite necromorphs tearing apart humans and being dismembered by plasma cutters.
The official synopsis: In DEAD SPACE AFTERMATH, the year is 2509 and not only has Earth lost contact with the USG Ishimura and Isaac Clarke, but also the USG O’Bannon, which is the first responder ship sent to rescue them. Four crew members of the O’Bannon have survived, but no one knows what happened to the rest of the crew, what they were doing, or what secrets they may be holding. All will be revealed…in the Aftermath!
They really love playing with those name references, don’t they?
As you can see from the trailer below there are a lot of animation styles used in the film, the poorly-animated CGI one perhaps looking the most out of place. What do you think, would this be worth another go? Or are you going to just dive into the game?
6 comments
that CGI looks atrocious. Reminiscent of 90s cartoons. I can only imagine how it would look on blu-ray…
It would have been better if they had justed use in engine graphics from the game instead of the incredibly poor cgi they have in the trailer.
The animated comic was fantastic, but that first movie they put out was ass
That cover reminds me of Lifeforce. Does it have nudie vampires in it? If so, I'n in.
What #2 said. Jesus. Someone got ripped off bigtime. The anime treatment is always fun though. Those characters seem to be made to enjoy bloody mutation and horror.
Not sure what you were expecting from the first movie. As a video game tie in, I didn't think it was half bad. Granted, I would never pay for it, but it was a decent way to kill and hour.
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