![]() The first thing returning players will notice is that Isaac talks in this game. ![]() Isaac and company’s ship they arrived on is soon destroyed by the monsters and with various systems of the Ishimura failing, it’s up to the rescue crew to repair what they can and try to escape the insanity. The Ishimura is infested with brutal, bloodthirsty creatures that seem to be mutated versions of the ship’s crew. It doesn’t take long for everything to go to heck. The player takes up the mantle of aeronautics engineer Isaac Clarke, whose girlfriend, Nicole Brennan, was a doctor on board the Ishimura. ![]() With such a sizable investment on the line, a team is dispatched to check in on the ship and discover the fate of its crew. Contact was lost with a “Planet Cracker” mining ship known as the USG Ishimura in the orbit of an off-limits world known as Aegis VII. The story beats of Dead Space 2023 are mostly the same as the original. ![]() Dead Space 2023 is a familiar, yet fresh return to the classic, visually and mechanically polishing the things that made the 2008 game amazing while reworking a number of key points to make it one of the most impressive and exciting modern horror experiences I have ever played. Not only did they take it on with gusto, but they succeeded in ways I never would have expected. ![]() Taking on the challenge of recreating Dead Space from the ground up could not have been an easy task. How do you improve upon a masterpiece? Where do you begin? Do you challenge that there are flaws worth correcting? Do you make the best parts even better? Do you mix a little of A and a little of B into what could be an altogether improved, yet different thing at the risk of alienating the original audience? I don’t know, but apparently EA Motive does. ![]()
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