Interesting you mention Quake in this connection - I feel like at least someone on the Dead Space 2 writing or design team must've seen Gibson's spec script at some point. Some of the Anchorpoint sequences in the script match pretty closely with some of the game's sequences in the "Sprawl" station - and I mean, the station is called the Sprawl, so it's not exactly a far reach to suggest the game devs had some Gibsonian influence going on.

Not a criticism, I should note - I feel like that's some of the strongest material in Dead Space 2, which is admittedly very uneven, but when it's good, it's good indeed. If we couldn't have Gibson's version of Alien 3 - and I agree with the article author that we'd have been better off with that one than with the one we did get - then it's nice at least to see some of it end up surfacing in another venue.

> It's just that, in each franchise, the other two movies are so much better

Alien 3 is a fun/exciting movie. But it never lived up to Ridley's Alien nor Cameron's Aliens standard.

It is not a terrible movie by a long shot. But when you compare it to the two masterpieces that preceded it, it disappoints.