I’ll be honest, I had mixed feelings towards Dead Space during the first hour of gameplay. There are some dark secrets to uncover on the Ishimura. While they work out a way to fix their ship and begin piecing together the events leading up to the Ishimura’s downfall, Isaac and his team discover that these monsters, known as Necromorphs, have been created from the corpses of the Ishimura’s ill-fated crew. The Ishimura’s crew seem to be missing, or so the Kellion team think until mutated monsters attack them, killing Chen and forcing the group to disband. And, after exploring more of the ship, the crew realise that it’s not just the docking that’s malfunctioning on the mining ship. Unfortunately, the Kellion ends up crash-landing on the Ishimura after a docking malfunction. Isaac is joined by computer specialist Kendra Daniels, chief security officer Zach Hammond, and co-pilots and security personnel Hailey Johnston and Aiden Chen. The team land on the USG Ishimura, a mining ship which has ceased communication while operating on the planet Aegis VII, to respond to a distress call sent out by Isaac’s girlfriend, Nichole Brennan, who is serving as a medical officer on board the ship.
The USG Ishimura is already in turmoil from the moment Isaac and his team arrive.ĭeveloped by Motive Studio, Dead Space, which adopts the same name as its 2008 predecessor, is set in the 26th century and follows Isaac Clarke, an engineer on a repair ship called the USG Kellion. So, this review is from the perspective of someone who never played the original game and had no idea what the story entailed. Despite this, one of my favourite games of all time is the Resident Evil 2 remake, so, despite being in the hands of EA, I had hopes that the Dead Space remake would do the original game justice and offer me a first-time experience with the story and gameplay with modern game technology. Like many gamers, I’ve had a tricky relationship with the recent bout of remakes, reboots and re-releases within the industry. Funny enough, here we are.Īs a big survival horror game fan who never had a chance to play the original Dead Space trilogy, I was absolutely thrilled when EA announced that they would be remaking the genre-defining sci-fi horror classic with updated gameplay and visuals. If you had told me a few months ago that EA’s Dead Space remake, made by the same team responsible for Star Wars Battlefront II (2017), would utterly trump The Callisto Protocol, developed by one of the original creators of the Dead Space trilogy, I would have laughed in disbelief.
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