![]() ![]() Yep, the health meter on Isaac’s suit is lighting up in blue once more - so long as you can keep it that way: Dead Space would go on to spawn a pair of sequels and gain more than a cult following, even as the franchise appeared to grind to a halt by the end of the PlayStation 3 / Xbox 360 era.įast forward to this week, when EA revealed that its EA Motive studio is reviving the game that started it all, not as a reissue or touched-up remaster, but as a completely remade experience destined exclusively for new-gen consoles and PC. Though the original game took a while to build sales steam, it went on to become a million-selling title as word of mouth about its haunting ambiance and truly terrifying third-person scare gauntlet enticed players who were down for an Alien-style fright fest. Isaac Clarke’s maddeningly isolating trek through the Necromorph-infested corridors of the mining vessel Ishimura took the well-established survival hallmarks of the Resident Evil franchise and flung them into the darkened reaches of a 26th Century orbit - the video game version of a place where no one could hear you scream. We'll even throw in a good old-fashioned board game every now and then!īack before 2008, video games had never seen such an atmospherically effective merging of solitude, survival, and sci-fi horror as the kind that EA Redwood Shores introduced to players with the original Dead Space. Check in each Friday for news (and occasionally even views) on everything from sprawling RPGs to Metroidvania platformers to the latest in VR and free-to-play. ![]() Welcome to The Week in Gaming, the place where we pause each week to take a look at the video game news beats both big and small that you might be missing - while also taking a peek around the corner at what's ahead.
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