User blog comment:Legionwrex/How Dead Space is now copying Mass Effect./@comment-149.173.31.13-20130221182546

Eh... both Mass Effect 1 and Dead Space 1 were released within a year of each other (I'm assuming that the actually dev time was longer than 10 months) so Dead Space had, at the least, a solid working story for the first game at the time that Mass Effect was released.

Also if you look up Dead Space 1 Easter Eggs, in Chapter 10 of DS1 there is a movie poster that has the title Rancid Moon (shows a picture of man running from zombies). One of People involved with Dead Space said that the original plot was for the game to be in a prison on a moon (Rancid Moon). Also it is a spoiler/foreshadow of DS3's Brethren Moon.

So, yes there are similarities. but outright plagiarism or copying is going to be hard to argue.

Another big difference between them is that Isaac has had little to now help in DS, Carver was the first person that actually could Help Isaac out. Whereas Shepard has had team of no less than 6 team mates (also not counting an entire ship full of personnel, the backing of the council, his Spectre status, And the entire human Fleet).

what that means is that Shepard's situation is a little bit more believable in my eyes, He is the symbol that the entire Galaxy gets behind in order to fight the Reapers.

Where Isaac is waging a one man war against the markers and necromorphs while everyone else in the universe seems to not mind so much (I mean WTF was with the giant marker study lab in the middle of isaac's city at the beginning of DS3? Do that crap on an abandoned moon, asteroid, or better yet, leave it alone).

Just my 50 cents worth. take it or leave it.