You’ll almost always be starved for bullets, and subsequently forced to switch to another weapon. Even when you think you’ve found a ton of ammunition, it’s never going to be enough. Much of the fun to be found in the horror genre stems from the stress these works impose on its consumers, and Dead Space is a game designed to stress you the hell out in the best way. The story follows a lot of the same beats, and you’ll come across many of the same locales featured in the original game, but some smart deviations in level design and exploration make this familiar adventure feel surprisingly fresh. It should also go without saying that the game boasts a huge graphical update, and it looks remarkable. Perhaps the most notable change is that the linear level design of the original has been scrapped in favor of an interconnected Ishimura that you can backtrack through to find secret items, complete side missions (another new addition), and open locked doors. Instead, Dead Space feels more like a mega-patch of the first game that keeps what worked back in 2009, while not only nixing what didn’t but also replacing said weaker parts with stronger ones. Unlike other high-profile video game remakes like The Last of Us Part I or Demon’s Souls, this game is not a shot-for-shot retread of the original. It’s almost exactly what you think it is: Dead Space is a remake of the first entry in the series. The closure of developer Visceral Studios a few years later seemed to reinforce further the idea that this series was as dead as the crew of the USG Ishimura.Īgainst all odds, the franchise has returned in 2023 with Motive Studio’s remake of the original Dead Space - a familiar yet surprising title that delivers the exact type of experience I was looking for, but it also bothered me to no end given the circumstances behind its existence. While the first two titles proved worthy of overwhelming amounts of respect and praise, the series seemingly fizzled out in 2013 with Dead Space 3 - an underwhelming title that lead the entire series into a decade of dormancy not with a bang, but rather a sad whimper. The Dead Space name is well-regarded, or at least it used to be.
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