EA reveals that its upcoming Dead Space remake utilize a one shot camera approach, similarly to 2018's God of War. With the first game releasing in 2008, plenty of fans were excited to hear that they would be returning to the gruesome horror of Dead Space in the form of a remake. Following the initial reveal of the Dead Space remake, which is being developed by EA Motive, the company which previously worked on Star Wars: Squadrons and Star Wars: Battlefront 2, things went quiet on the title for some time.
However, once EA had confirmed that Dead Space would be coming in January 2023, it has shown off more and more of the horror title. While the remake isn't seeking to depart too much from the original, it does contain some changes, such as Motive's new ALIVE system. The ALIVE system in Dead Space will track Isaac's movement and behaviors in a new way, making his dialogue more labored when he's just been in combat, for example, or showing his fatigue in different movement animations.
Alongside these new mechanics, another change is coming in the Dead Space remake. As outlined in a recent blog post from EA, where the company outlined how dedicated it was to holding up the legacy of the original Dead Space, it was also unveiled that the remake would not contain any loading screens. Only when a player dies to a Necromorph will they be faced with a loading screen, and for the rest of the game they will be free to explore it at their leisure.
Senior Producer Philippe Ducharme stated that the Ishimura, the ship infested with Necromorphs the player must navigate, is now "fully interconnected." This, along with a bunch of other new graphical changes to lighting and mechanical alterations to the zero-gravity sections, are made possible thanks to EA's Frostbite engine, according to Ducharme. Other games have also done away with loading screens, with one notable example being 2018's God of War, which was also a completely unbroken experience unless the player died.
Ducharme says that the changes being brought in the Dead Space remake go beyond graphical improvements, and that it is a "new and enhanced experience." While fans will certainly be able to recognize all that they loved from the original game, plenty of additions are being brought in to flesh out the lore and bring a new "kind of depth." Due to the ALIVE system, there will also be a new level of violence brought into the Dead Space remake, which appears to be similar to the gore and brutality in The Callisto Protocol, a similar sci-fi horror project.
Dead Space releases January 27, 2023, on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X/S.
Source: EA