DO NOT BUY Dead Space Remake 2023

Hello, welcome back to a new video game

review. So recently I've been playing the

remake of Dead Space, and as an avid fan

of horror games and sci-fi games in

general, I knew I just had to play this

game again. Now I say again because I did

play the original Dead Space back in 2008.

Wow, I can't believe it's been 15 years,

but it has. Time really does fly. I

remember playing it the first time it came

out, and I didn't really like it back

then. And to be honest, I don't really

like it now either, even with the fancy

graphics and the remake. So I don't really

know why EA bothered to remake this game.

I think they were watching Capcom and just

trying to copy what Capcom did with the

Resident Evil trilogy remakes, which were

very well received and everyone was

praising it as really good. So I guess

they want to make some extra money on one

of their older franchises and make a

remake of Dead Space. Can't really blame

them. I like money too. But the thing I

don't like is the fact that the things I

didn't like about the original Dead Space

haven't really changed at all. I don't

really know what they've done to this

remake apart from upgrade the graphical

fidelity. But apart from the graphics and

the visuals, this game is basically the

same as the original game. So if you've

played the original game, unless you

really care about the graphics— which I

don't really care that much about the

graphics, to be honest— unless you really

care about the graphics, I would recommend

that you give this remake a skip, because

at £50, that's pretty expensive just to

replay a very old game. Okay, so the

premise of Dead Space is you are an

engineer in space, and you're part of a

crew that goes to investigate this big

ship that has lost communication. You go

into the ship, you find out that nearly

everyone is dead or dying, and they've

turned into these weird monsters that have

very sharp arms and legs. And the whole

core mechanic of the gameplay is you're

supposed to use these different weapons

and different tools to dismember the

enemy's limbs because headshots don't

work. I find the combat system kind of

annoying because with your main weapon,

you can switch between vertical and

horizontal shooting, and to shoot legs,

horizontal is better, and then they'll

fall onto the floor, and then you've got

to switch over to vertical shooting to

shoot the arms off, and then you can

finish them up— finish them off with a

stamp. And it's just kind of annoying

because you're constantly having to switch

between vertical and horizontal to shoot

these enemies, and the enemies just kind

of appear out of nowhere from behind walls

or drop down from the ceiling. And the

most annoying thing about fighting the

enemies in this game has to be the music.

So I'm going to let you listen to what the

music is like when you encounter every

single enemy in this game.

It starts playing the most annoying and

irritating trying-to-be-scary kind of very

generic horror music, and it's so annoying

I had to turn the music off. It's not

scary. It's just really loud and really

messy. It's supposed to make you feel

anxious and nervous and panic. It just

makes me feel annoyed and makes me want to

put a needle in my ear hole. So the game

is constantly trying to jump scare you and

it's not scary at all. You'll find

yourself just walking down these very dark

and gloomy hallways 90% of the game and

then enemies will jump out of nowhere and

try and scare you. And honestly, I didn't

feel scared by any of this. None of it

made me jump. It was just like, okay,

here comes the jump scare. And then again

with the stupid annoying music. It gets

very repetitive and tedious and the entire

game just looks so dark and bland. I hate

how dark some of the areas in the game is.

It's not fun, it's not scary, it just

makes me It just makes me really struggle

to find out where I'm supposed to go.

Thank God you can press X for this little

highlighted waypoint to guide you the way,

because without that I would have just

gone crazy and not even bothered to play

more than 30 minutes of the game. I know

it's on a spaceship and obviously things

are going to be made out of metal and it's

going to be all gray and black and dark.

But Jesus Christ, after playing this game

for a bit, you just get so tired, sick and

tired of how bland and boring the entire

game looks. I know it looks kind of nice

in some way, like the lighting and the

armor, and the suits and the weapons, and

some of the interfaces in the ship do look

pretty cool because it's very sci-fi, but

the whole game just looks so dull and

bland and ugly. I got very fed up, and

it's like you're colorblind almost because

90% of the game just looks gray,

different shades of gray, apart from a

little blue on its back and little

highlighted orange bits here and there.

But apart from that, the game is very

gloomy and dull to look at. I found the

enemies kind of annoying to fight because

they will take about 4 or 5 shots. First

you've got to shoot the legs out, then

you've got to shoot the arms out, and then

you could finish off with a head stomp.

And it's like the same thing over and over

again. And then they throw different types

of enemies at you that maybe have only 2

arms and a tail, but it's basically just

the same thing. You just gotta shoot the

arms and legs so they fall over. And apart

from shooting these very boring and

tedious enemies, the other part of the

gameplay is really boring puzzles. So I

don't know what it is about horror games.

I think they're just trying to copy

Resident Evil with the puzzles, but this

game is full of puzzles. You've got

different tools like a stasis thing which

freezes objects from moving, so For

example, you got a malfunctioning door

that won't stop opening and closing. You

use the stasis on it to freeze it, or use

it on different things that are

malfunctioning, or use the magnetic tool

to slide things around. It's very generic.

Use the magnetic tool to pick up heavy

objects and slide it into a hole. And you

got other puzzles where you got to find

out how to restart an electric circuit

board. I just didn't really find any of

the puzzles fun or challenging. They were

just annoying things you had to do to

progress the game. I just felt like they

were completely unnecessary. Why couldn't

they just make them simple tasks where you

just press a button to enable something?

Because I didn't really feel like the

puzzles really added much to the game.

There's also parts of the game where you

float around in zero-g, and the control

for this— the controls are just really

annoying for this. And trying to maneuver

around whilst floating about and having to

shoot at enemies can feel and get very

frustrating. And I actually got fed up

with the game at this point and turned it

off. I guess you could say the gameplay is

very similar to Resident Evil, where

you've got this big area that you have to

find out how to unlock different doors.

To unlock certain doors, you'll go into

certain rooms to find the key, or— well,

it's not a key, it's usually like a data

board or some kind of circuit thing to fix

a machine that will open the door. So

you're just backtracking, going here and

then backtracking back to where you have

to go to pick up the key, go back to the

room, unlock the door. It's basically just

like a door unlocking simulator, much like

Resident Evil. But I just didn't really

feel scared like I did when I played

Resident Evil. The horror factor isn't

really there for me, and even though they

try really hard with the scary music and

all the gore, the gore is really over the

top, which is kind of— it does make the

game interesting and more visceral, I

guess. And I did find the story kind of

intriguing. I did feel a bit curious as to

why everyone turned into these weird

aliens, but I didn't really feel intrigued

enough to really push myself to get

further into the game. So unfortunately,

I don't think I can recommend this game,

and I'm going to have to give it a 4.2 2

out of 10. I don't really feel like it's

worth spending £50 on a very old game.

Maybe if the price comes down to £20, I

might consider buying it or recommending

it as a good game to be able to buy, but I

just don't really feel like it's fair that

they charge such a high amount of money

for such an old game. It's not like it's a

new game. They just rehashed an old game,

made it look prettier, and then they think

they can get away with charging for the

price of a new game. That's just— I find

that kind of monetarily predatory, and

that's not cool,