![]() ![]() ![]() In some ways this is a mythology building book but it does so in small steps and with background only. We’re still building up to the events of the computer game and we’re after B. It brings an extra width to the franchise and gives it some gravitas.ĭead Space: Catalyst is set some 250 years in the future. From my perspective and for this review – the building start to Catalyst works well. Will die hard Dead Space fans reach for Catalyst, eager to space zombie action, only to be given a thriller of building tension? Will there be disappointment? I think there’s chance. I have to wonder whether there is an expectation trap. What we don’t have is the Dead Space gore. We also discover that EarthGov are now tinkering with alien puzzle boxes – the dreaded Black Marker. We had two brothers one younger and responsible and one older and subtly unstable, dangerous and yet with an alien mathematical genius talent.Įarly on the plot shits to a high-security prison. In my defence, very quickly, I was getting Clive Barker vibes from the plot. In hindsight that was an obvious mistake. Rather than try and walk an impossible road and try and be a paperback computer game, Dead Space: Catalyst, follows its own path and does something different.Ī few pages into Catalyst and I thought I had the book pegged. In a way Dead Space: Catalyst doesn’t bother. ![]() The feel is a hard one for any book, no matter how skilfully written, to recreate. Okay Dead Space has been about the atmosphere and the dismembering centric violence as our engineer hero takes Necromorphs to pieces. Evenson’s Dead Space novel a small but effective treatment and decorated the chapter numbers with a splash of black and white blood.ĭead Space has always been about the atmosphere. That was my first impression of Dead Space: Catalyst. ![]()
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