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Dead Space 3: Visceral on Markers and How They Affect Clarke

December 19, 2012 by Alex Co

Visceral has posted a new blog post detailing the effects the Marker has on Dead Space 3’s protagonist.

Over on the official Dead Space 3 site, senior production designer Ben Wanat talks about the Markers and its effect on people.

According to Wanat, Isaac Clarke managed to defeat his inner demons in Dead Space 2, but his mind still "has the secrets of the Markers crammed into it but it manifests more as an affinity for the Markers rather than a madness. This affinity has made him the closest thing there is to an expert on Markers and ultimately it's why he's pulled into this latest adventure."

While we already know why Clarke's determined to destroy Markers, Dead Space 3's other protagonist, John Carver, has his own issues to deal with and why he hates the damn thing so much, too.

In the blog post, it states, "Sergeant John Carver has been through a lot before Dead Space 3 begins. He was a career military man with a wife and kid but had grown disconnected from his family and even resentful of them. When a Marker outbreak happens on the planet he's stationed on, tragedy strikes and his family is taken from him. This leaves Carver with a lot of unresolved personal issues locked inside by his inability to express his pain. And this is exactly what feeds Marker dementia the best. "

Furthermore, it seems that in Dead Space 3, it won't be Clarke who's the "crazy" one who sees stuff that aren't there. These hallucinations will manifest in the game as co-op only missions" and during these said missions, "players will experience the world differently. If you play as Carver, you'll come across constant creepy reminders to his ugly past. If you play as Isaac, you'll get to see things as they really are which makes Carver's madness all the more apparent."

Sounds like we're in for a story that will, no doubt, twist and turn before it ends. 

Whom do you think is the one hallucinating in Dead Space 3? Do you think there's a chance that Clarke made up Carver due to his dementia?

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