

Expanding on its appearance, the visuals are ridiculously good. It may sound like an odd observation, but when not in his iconic helmet, Isaac looks like your average male, not some chiselled or bearded Adonis, but rather like Pete the office worker who enjoys a pint down the pub after a day of inputting numbers at the office.

It’s an obvious choice, but Gunner Wright is superb as the everyman engineer.Īnother change that is commendable from the developers is making these characters look normal. One big change is bringing in the voice actor for Isaac Clarke from the two sequels and having him voice the character for the remake. The story is still engaging, but enough has been added to flesh out characters and story beats through added cutscenes, text and audio logs, and dialogue. Motive has made plenty of changes to the original yet still manages to keep what made it such a standout hit. This remake of 2008’s classic is the epitome of what survival horror should be, with all the trappings of what players deserve from the genre. I was never given any assurance there would be a safe space to collect my thoughts, and the atmosphere was so tense and claustrophobic I could never prepare accordingly as to what weapon I should have equipped or how to approach a new area of the Ishimura. For the entire time of my playthrough of Dead Space, I was constantly living in fear of what might be around the corner.
