In a few days, a monument of video game culture will be given a second life. The remake of Dead Space is coming soon, we take stock of this release.
[Mis à jour le 04 janvier 2023 à 16h44] The genre of horror games has some of the most popular licenses in the history of video games, the fault of a medium that adapts perfectly to horror. We can always remember games alone or with friends in a dark room, plunged into utter horror that quickly knocked us out of our chairs. And among the most popular titles of the genre, we find the Dead Space series. Released in 2008 under the aegis of the Visceral Games studio then directed by Glenn Schofield (now behind the recent and very similar The Callisto Protocol), this trilogy then plunged us into a revolutionary visual and sound claustrophobic horror, marking with a red iron a whole generation of reckless gamers. And well fourteen years later, the license is back in the form of a new generation remake of its first episode. We take stock of this release which has a little taste of nostalgia, just below.
Flickering lights, vibrating violin strings and creaky hallways, no doubt Dead Space is back. EA Motive brought us the first gameplay trailer for the remake of Dead Space on Tuesday, giving us the first “modern” images of the 2008 title. Based on the Frostbite Engine, this new game aims to fully restore the masterpiece of Visceral Games, with new lines of dialogue and above all new graphics. A good opportunity for fans and laymen to experience the horrors of the ISG-Ishimura planet breaker again or for the first time.
Confirming some rumors about a possible delay of the release of Dead Space to 2023, EA Motive has fixed the release at January 27, 2023. We will then celebrate the return of this great classic more than 14 years after its initial release, before quickly erasing the smile from our faces, once confronted with the horrors that await us in the great void of space. The game is slated for release on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series, and no mention has yet been made of it possibly coming to Xbox Game Pass, although EA and Xbox are known to be close to both of them. catalogs.
To answer this question fairly quickly, no, this new release will in no way be likened to Dead Space 4. ‘Isaac Clarke and John Carver after the events of Dead Space 3. For that, we’ll have to wait a little longer.
If you don’t know the story of Dead Space, we will try to present it to you without spoiling you too much. The action takes place in 2508. The Earth can no longer meet the needs of its inhabitants, Humanity sets out in search of resources in the vastness of space, aboard immense mining vessels, the surface breakers. One of them, ISG Ishimura, suddenly stops responding to communications. A small team of engineers is then sent on board to try to restore contact, and among them, Isaac Clarke, the character you play.
A little throwback to the past, we are in 2008, and a promising game is starting to make a little noise. It’s Dead Space, created by Glenn Schofield and the teams at Visceral Games, an ultra-violent futuristic thriller that transports you to the 26th century in the freezing and silent vacuum of space. Except Dead Space is one of a kind, albeit picking up on some horrifying elements from the awesome Alien by Ridley Scott. The game plunges the player into an unpredictable hell by confiscating his usual feeling of impunity, of deus ex machina in power, and offering him in exchange a permanent danger carried by a sinister sound and visual atmosphere and, one can say it, agressive. An influence and scope quite similar to the Silent Hill games, while trading psychological violence for uncompromising gore. Which will make the first two Dead Space legendary games, propelling the license to the pantheon of the best horror games of all time. Well this franchise is back! Recovered by EA Motive studios, Dead Space first of the name is fully restored in a future remake. A modern interpretation of the 2008 game that we recently discovered in a first gameplay trailer.
Non Dead Space will not be released on PS4 or Xbox One. The remake reserves for next-gen consoles as well as the PC, wanting to take full advantage of the technical capabilities of the new consoles. Indeed, this remake of Dead Space remains quite ambitious visually and sonically, an ambition that places it above the power of PS4 and Xbox One. The good news is that the game will undoubtedly look extremely beautiful, taking full advantage of the Frostbite graphics engine.