The genre re-defining survival horror title’s full remake is just around the corner, launching late this month across a slew of modern platforms. Following in the same footsteps of the recent and hugely popular Resident Evil remakes - which are swinging around to RE4 next - the Dead Space remake is more than just a graphical touch up. Developed by Motive and once again published by EA, the unhelpfully named Dead Space is a grounds-up remake of Dead Space (game companies really need to stop doing this), modernizing, improving, tweaking and expanding upon the setting, gameplay and story of the original. We’re still taking on the role of walking Sci-Fi author tribute Isaac Clarke as he steps - or stomps - into the iconic slit-visor engineering suit and also spines, taking an existentially dreary tour through the doomed USG Ishimura and its conveniently blood-graffitied walls. Launching as a fully priced AAA title, the Dead Space remake is also packing a Deluxe Edition alongside pre-order incentives, of which far and away the most enticing is the free inclusion of a Steam copy of Dead Space 2. Some fans (read: us) consider the second entry to be the best one in the series, improving on the first but not veering to far off as the third which arguably lost its way. Switching the setting of a claustrophobic and poorly lit spaceship to a claustrophobic and poorly lit space station, Dead Space 2 continued to make Isaac’s life utterly miserable while further fleshing out the game’s universe, giving more backstory on the Unitologist cult and introducing new Necromorphs like those creepy babies and the deliberately unkillable Ubermorph. Dead Space 2 is currently available on its own for $19.99 / £17.99 / 19,99€, so if you were planning on grabbing the Dead Space remake anyway, you might as well make it a pre-order to bag this fantastic freebie. That said, we definitely wouldn’t mind seeing the sequel get the same remake treatment down the line - and giving the original version away definitely isn’t a sign to the contrary. Dead Space (2023) will launch on the 27th of January.
