Now, this might sound a tad strange, but I knew I was in safe hands with the Dead Space remake as soon as I heard the menu sound effects.
Whether it was simply scrolling through my inventory, selling items at the in-game store, or speaking to other crew members via the intercom, every beep, woosh, and chirp sounded exactly as I remembered. It felt like coming home. Such sentiment runs through every aspect of this much prettier (but equally bleak) remake of the iconic 2008 survival horror. And over a decade later, Isaac’s hellish mission aboard the Necromorph-ridden USG Ishimura is just as thrilling, with subtle changes improving on an already near-perfect experience.
For the uninitiated, Dead Space primarily tells the story of Isaac Clarke, an everyday space engineer tasked with mending one of humanity’s best planet-cracking vessels, the USG Ishimura. What begins as a routine repair job quickly descends into a gory and grotesque nightmare, as he and the rest of his small team realise that the ship’s crew is afflicted with a viral outbreak. People are suddenly transforming into deformed monsters, and the race is on to escape the ship before they succumb to the same fate.
