Gone is the segmented and loading screen filled environment of the original game it’s now a fully explorable space station. Perhaps the most impressive change present in this remake is the USG Ishimura. It’s tastefully done as well you won’t find an overly talkative or quippy Isaac Clarke here. While initially hesitant of this change I soon began to embrace it as it’s nice to get inside Issac’s head and hear his thoughts about the horrors he’s facing. Another welcome change is that Isaac is now fully voiced by Gunner Wright, his voice actor from the other entries in the series. Once loaded into the game, the story is told in a single long shot with no loading of any kind similar to Sony’s recent God of War games. From the outset, Dead Space provides a seamless experience. An Engineer who travels to the space station USG Ishimura to investigate the mysterious circumstances behind the disappearance of his girlfriend Nicole Brennan, who is the station’s chief medical officer, and discovers the station has descended into hell. So in 2021, when EA announced that a full remake was in development from Motive Studios (the same studio behind the underrated Star Wars: Squadrons ), many were taken by surprise.Ĭould Dead Space be relevant in a very different landscape of horror games? Would a remake even work? How faithful does the remake need to be to capture that same feeling of the original? And most importantly of all, can Dead Space return to its former glory?ĭead Space (2023) puts players into the thruster boots of Isaac Clarke. After the disappointment that was Dead Space 3 was released in 2013 and the closure of original developing studio Visceral Games in 2017, the series lay dormant. It’s a game whose legacy lives on and has yet to be replicated properly even by its own sequels that eventually lost sight of what made the original game so great.

Back in 2008 when the original Dead Space was released, players were almost immediately enamored with its action-inspired gameplay, space horror setting, and next-generation technology that elevated the experience to a level never seen before.

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