Overall, a bona fide space opera that brings home creepy and shocking moments, making hair prick and skin chill. When this giant artefact was brought on board, people started going crazy and the dead came back to life, attacking the others. Beating the game unlocks New Game+, which gives Isaac access to a new outfit, extra credits and equipment, as well as new video and audio logs. Indeed, it must be the only game in which players die deliberately, just to see how many different ways there are to die in the game!

The "Stasis" module causes its target to undergo an extreme slowdown for a short period of time, allowing characters to dart through rapidly moving obstacles such as fan blades, or hinder onrushing enemies. Venture Beat reported in July that this revival was a remake of the first game, in the same vein as the Resident Evil 2 remake, and would be a relaunch of the franchise. A 2011 GamePro article noted that the game promoted Electronic Arts as a potential home for original IPs, and generally found a balance between action and horror despite some contemporary reviews having mixed reactions. After my first few hours with Dead Space, I'm not sure if it's trying to be a third-person action game with a spooky setting or a proper survival horror game, and I think it could be even better if it went further in one of those directions. The PC version was one of the Electronic Arts releases protected by the controversial digital rights management product SecuROM.The ship is a floating bloodbath, the crew unspeakably mutilated and infected by an ancient alien scourge. The large number of familiar environments and designs, in addition to making the Ishimura a believable living environment, increased the horror elements, as they would be familiar to players.

When it came to zero-G environments, they muted and muffled any sound and focused on noises from within Isaac's suit, as these mirrored actual experiences in a space vacuum. It certainly hits all the technical notes you'd want to see from a modern remake, so if you already know you're a fan of Dead Space from your time with the original, I can definitely recommend picking the new version up based on what I've played at this stage. Plus sometimes the plot advances in you going to another part of the ship only to fix something- you can argue it can get a little tedious. Isaac's health and energy levels are displayed on the back of his suit, and ammunition count appears when weapons are raised.

The Necromorphs' multi-limbed or tentacled appearance was dictated by the dismemberment gameplay, as having enemies without limbs would not work in that context. Following near-extinction of humans on Earth due to resource shortages, ships dubbed "Planetcrackers" are being used to harvest resources from barren planets. The images within this article have been taken in Performance mode on Xbox Series X - and it still looks a beauty!