

Unfortunately, by the time Isaac and his crew get there, a devastating event has occurred, and the dead are being reborn as twisted monsters known as Necromorphs. Engineer Isaac Clarke heads to the mining ship Ishimura for work, and to see his girlfriend Nicole. Everything that was so cool and fancy about Capcom’s remake of Resident Evil 2 has been applied here, but arguably done better in so many ways.įor the newcomers, and there will be newcomers given we’ve gone a whole console generation without this franchise, the plot is as follows.

The remake of Dead Space, and while I’m not fond of writing something so corny and overused (ha), is a triumph. Especially with how things ended for the original developer. That doesn’t stop there being trepidation, however. Resident Evil 2 was rebuilt by a different development team, and the upcoming Silent Hill 2 remake is being made by the Polish studio Bloober Team. It’s hardly alone in the ‘horror remake by a new team’ space in recent years. It’s a thought that has stayed buried in my brain ever since the reveal of a remake of Dead Space by Motive. Dead Space PS5 Review This Is How You Remake A Survival Horror Classic The franchise was wrapped up in just five short years, and it was genuinely sad and more than a little annoying that we didn’t get to see Visceral thrive. Soaring high on the wave of the 2008 original and its fantastic 2011 follow-up, before scorching its wings with a third entry that was a victim of the most extreme virtues of focus testing. Dead Space itself was an Icarus of a franchise. For a start, the original developer Visceral, was effectively absorbed into the content machine at EA before being taken out back. There’s a touch of the bittersweet about the return of Dead Space.
