In honor of Halloween, I reached out to Dead Space 2 creative director Wright Bagwell to ask him to explain why he and the rest of the designers at Visceral Games did this to Isaac’s brain and to mine. I played Dead Space 2 when it came out in 2011, and this scene has haunted me ever since. During this horrifyingly interactive scene, the player must guide that needle into Isaac’s pupil while he’s strapped into the machine, twitching in barely contained agony. This data has to be inserted through his eye into his brain via a needle, because sure. Near the end of the game, protagonist Isaac Clarke climbs into an eye surgery contraption so he can receive some data about the monsters he’s been fighting. In August 2021, Wright confirmed that he would be reprising his role as Isaac Clarke in the Dead Space remake.If you’ve played through Dead Space 2, you remember the “stick a needle in your eye” scene. You'd get the sense that most astronauts would handle a situation like this in a similar way. Many films turn the loss of one's senses into a frantic, almost comically silly thing – whereas here, we watch bounce between skirting the edge of sanity, and reeling himself in – he's self-aware enough at times to see where things are going. Gunner Wright carries a large load as the primary screen presence, and he does an excellent job of showing the deterioration of a logical man. Variety described Wright's performance in Love, saying 'Wright, shouldering nearly a one-man-show burden, is gamely athletic, all-American and somewhat of a blank slate, like Kubrick's astronauts – until some unfettered personality begins to seep out.' Ain't It Cool News also described Wright's performance of Captain Lee Miller: Wright attended the 2010 Comic-Con to promote Dead Space 2 and meet with fans. Wright also stars in Dead Space 2 and Dead Space 3 as protagonist Isaac Clarke, developed by Visceral Games and distributed by Electronic Arts. Wright played the main character, American astronaut Lee Miller who becomes stranded aboard the International Space Station. In 2011, Wright starred in the 2011 film Love by director William Eubank. Joe: The Rise of Cobra as a Secret Service Agent. There, he began working on Fox Television's Fastlane series and soon began a career in acting.

Wright raced motorcycles competitively until the age of 21 when he moved to Southern California. Gunner Wright is an American film actor known for his role in the film Love and for portraying Isaac Clarke in the Dead Space video game series.

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