Compared to a game like Alien: Isolation, the gameplay is much too focused on combat to be anything but an action shooter riff on System Shock 2. Dead Space has a single formula to startle–as indicated above–but never once contemplates true horror.

I remember the original being moderately scary at age 13. This was no doubt the intention in 2008, and so it is here. Spooky dead things jump out at you from vents enemy corpses rise for jumpscares when you get too close the levels are dark and claustrophobic and ammo, health, and energy are always limited. Fifteen Years Laterĭead Space may at first seem like a survival-horror game. But this new release hasn’t attempted to fix many of systematic issues with Dead Space (2008), and problems that have lingered for fifteen years remain yet unsolved. The graphics have been redone, the gameplay re-refined, a few weak sequences strengthened, and the narrative completely rescripted–all in an effort to capture the feeling of the original. We fans of the franchise will appreciate it as a love letter delivered after a full decade of silence from EA, and new players will find it much more accessible and less frustrating than going back to the game design dark ages of the 360/PS3 generation. But what I can say is that Dead Space (2023) is a good, mostly faithful remake. So how is it? And is it worth $70?įew games are. Ten years abandoned and Dead Space is at last reborn.

I’ve wanted to go back to it, but when I saw that it was soon to be remade on next-gen, I held off. Over a decade later and I’ll confess that I remember almost nothing about it, except set pieces here and there. I’ve tried but always failed to replay the original game since 2011, mostly due to mouse acceleration issues in the PC version. Although it seemed to be abandoned after the poor reception of Dead Space 3, chopping off necromorph limbs and shooting glowing sacks of amber has never left my heart. In the time since Dead Space has remained one of my favorite franchises. I loved it, and the moment I was done I bought the first game for PC on Steam. Exactly twelve years ago I bought Dead Space 2 for the Xbox 360.

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