It’s a strange feeling to be revisiting a game over a decade later, on a PC vastly more powerful than the one I had back in the day. Similar to the movies Alien and Event Horizon, eerie goings on in abandoned places make for some terrifying horror situations. There’s something primal that the game taps into. Upping the ante, the distress call was made by Issac’s girlfriend, Nicole Brennan, a medical officer on the station.ĭead Space has a classic haunted house in space scenario. Dead Space’s lore is detailed and well-documented.īut here we are, once again as engineer Isaac Clarke en route to the USG Ishimura as part of a search and rescue team answering a distress call. I’m not sure where this places all the animated Dead Space movies or the comic book in this potentially new chronology. I was hoping for another sequel rather than EA wiping the slate clean and starting again. I’ll be honest, the original Dead Space seems like only yesterday, and the sequels even more so. Others, like Dead Space, have been rebuilt from the ground up, echoing the original but adapted for a more refined audience. Some are just re-textured with upscaled character models, cynically remastered with minimal effort. Reissuing games has become in vogue for developers of late, with mixed results. For too long old favourites of mine have been lost to time, incompatible or unplayable on modern hardware. Dead Space, EA’s classic survival horror game from 2008, gets a complete overhaul, reimagining the chilling encounters on the derelict mining platform, the USG Ishimura.
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