Thus, the impression is conveyed that an unfinished film with a continuous storyline that re-edited into a flashback structure and padded with new material created by 3-D computer animation students so as to produce a final product with a viable running time. But despite the involvement of five different animation studios, the styles of four character-narrated segments feature enough similarities that they convey a continuity of production which clashes severely with the framing narrative. The reason that Dead Space: Aftermath does so is because it, like the three film mentioned above, also suffers from an intense visual schizophrenia that is, in the end, severely detrimental to its overall impression: the framing events and the four narratives of the survivors are all from different animation studios, the framing events being rendered in an almost primitive 3-D computer animation style while the four narratives are presented in an anime style comparable to (but less detailed than) that of Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust (2000). The movie at hand here, Dead Space: Aftermath, was released the same year, and is a prequel of sorts to Dead Space 2 – one of its main characters, Nolan Stross, appears in the game subsequent to his fate in the film – that offers some bridges to the continuity of the game. (Both Dead Space: Downfall and Dead Space: Extraction, by the way, had a six-issue Dead Space comic book prequel that appeared in 2008.) A third game in the series, Dead Space 2, came in 2011 and as a sequel to the first game it once again features Isaac Clarke. This in turn was followed by the computer game Dead Space: Extraction in 2009, which takes place prior to the game it follows and at the same time as Dead Space: Downfall.
But to fill you in a bit on the timeline, the game Dead Space, which features Isaac Clarke, "an engineer who must fight his way through a mining starship infested with hostile, grotesque monstrosities called Necromorphs," was released in 2008 and became a hit an animated film entitled Dead Space: Downfall (2008 / trailer), a prequel to the game, followed around the same time.
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