The remake packs much more choices in how players can explore around. While there is more immersion from reading all the new warnings left by survivors that once roamed the halls (and still sort of do). I appreciated the extra polish and graphical power used to revive more iconic parts of the ship. The photorealism works well with the PS5’s ability to draw strong shadows, lighting and fog without mucking up performance, but the console version still buckles under the weight of Ishimura’s sheer details. Here, DICE’s Frostbite Engine makes the next-gen exclusive Dead Space look and feel like a nightmare come true. EA and Motive have handled the ship with extra tender love and care. Dead Space turns up the atmosphere for danger in every nook and cranny of this derelict ship. The USG Ishimura is dark, bloody, and claustrophobic as they come. Better yet, the story makes more sense with thoughtful banter between Isaac, his crewmates and stranger survivors. The character absolutely delights new and returning players with dialogue that reflects just what the heck is going on inside the USG Ishimura. Actor Gunner Wright returns with a snappy, working-class grit to give Isaac personality. But in a simple work-smart-not-hard technique, the writers add character development to deepen Dead Space. While the remake is vastly superior with the benefit of a franchise’s worth of lore to cull from. Isaac struggles to fend off hordes of infected crewmates, fix the unmaintained Ishimura and save his beloved motion-captured nurse on board.ĭead Space already tells its own disturbing adventure from 2008. The crew is quickly separated by a mysterious Necromorph (space-zombie) outbreak. In 2508, his latest job with the crew of USG Kellion went haywire minutes after crashing onto the USG Ishimura. Dead Space simply puts players behind the shoulders of Isaac Clarke, a space engineer with the Concordance Extraction Corporation (CEC) specializing in systems for interstellar frigates. Like Capcom’s remake for Resident Evil 2, the story adds more depth behind each character to enhance a familiar tale.

That’s because the dev team has added enough fresh dialogue and cutscenes to pass the remake bar. I won’t spoil just what makes Dead Space’s harrowing tale so refreshing.

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