It looks like the same cracked out marketing team behind Dante's Inferno is also hard at work on promoting Visceral's other big game, Dead Space 2. A bizarre little tease has hit the Internet by way of the official Dead Space Twitter account, some kind of Rorschach ink blot crammed with subtle Dead Space images.
You might very well be able to spot some Necromorph shapes among the nonsense, and those who are really into the game should recognize the Unitology symbols as well. Whether or not this means anything is anybody's guess. Chances are, it's just a cool image used to get people excited for the game.
It's certainly a thing to look at, anyway.
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7:00 AM on 12.05.2009
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Still, loved the first one. Have great hopes for the second one.
Bets?
In all seriousness I see:
-A girl with a hood (this one's the strongest)
-A bird with claws, almost Eagle-esque
-Sharp spider-like legs
-Hands
-Holy shit now I see black widows on the bottom corners
That's it.
It's an attempt at creating a world in which Scientology is the main driving factor for the rich and powerful (not to mention true, as its lore within the game keeps coming true to the player in the form of the alien artifact blah blah).
An attempt at giving the idea credence really. I reckon it's due to some of the key developers being members of Scientology, so it gave them the idea to portray it as a serious and real thing.
Kinda sad overall.
I thought I was the only one that saw it. It's kind of obvious, it's the first thing I saw.
In the Top, 2 necromorphs with his razor's arms
In the Middle, the "baby-thing" with tentacles on their backs
In the bottom, Heads of necromorphs
Or maybe i'm just crazy
I'd tap that.
I saw the exact same thing before i read your cheat sheet comment.
How is it making Scientology seem credible? Pretty much every single Unitologist depicted in Dead Space has been crazy, evil or both. Hell, the Church of Unitology is the main antagonistic force in Dead Space. The game also appears to continually make the player think 'why the fuck would anyone participate in this retarded religion?'. It always occurred to me that the DS developers had quite a bit of disdain for Scientology.
Is that bad?
Also, in case you do want to translate it yourself, look away:
the nightmare is over but it will not end.
Also, in case you do want to translate it yourself, look away:
the nightmare is over but it will not end.
Maybe the text at the bottom is written in that language.
But it can't be that easy...it will probably be upside down as well, backwards with no vowels.
In all seriousness, just look at the left (..or right) side of the imagine. The top splotch is a typical necromorph, the middle one is those baby things with the tendrils off their back and the bottom i can't decipher but ill say a Twitcher or pregnant.
If you think this looks like a vagina, stop having sex with xenomorphs.
I like it.
it says somethhingg on the bottom there that the impulsive dead space fan can decode - if they so wished.
i have a game screen
...and previous commenters said all this as well as translate it, so I'ma shut up now.
The clearest one i have found does not contain all the necessary symbols, and im attempting to decipher it.
Thoes symbols definitly contain a message, ive already deciphered "THE", but i cant find any more of the symbols as most of the images of the alphabet are missing some or are very blurry
from a search through google images - 'alphabet dead space'