Dead Space Remake, EA’s upcoming horror game and Callisto Protocol competitor, will give hero Isaac Clarke a voice, “depth” and “more leeway,” says developer Motive Studio as a new Dead Space trailer is released which shows Ishimura in front. Dead Space Remake release date.
In the 2008 original, though we get a glimpse of Isaac Clarke’s face, the sci-fi engineer never says a word and spends the entire game taking orders from Kendra and Hammond. In the upcoming remake, Isaac would have more to say and be more active in fixing Ishimura and defeating the Necromorphs.
“I remember a podcast pointing out that in the original Dead Space, Isaac was like the most overworked superintendent who was just told to fix a bunch of stuff,” says lead level designer Katherine Stewart on the new version. “And he seems really weird when he’s an expert at what he has to do.”
“So now he’s a little more involved in events and problem solving,” continues Motive’s creative director, Roman Campos-Oriola. “He participates in the conversation. And that gives more depth to the character; it gives you more free will.”
Not only is Isaac Clarke still voiced by Gunner Wright, who played the character in Dead Space 2 and Dead Space, but he’s modeled after Wright as well. Joel McMillan, director of implementation at Motive Studio, says that giving Isaac more freedom helps ground the character in reality.
“We wanted to show how you think about a problem and ‘design’ a solution,” explains McMillan. “Plus, with all the drama going on around Isaac, the lack of response or acknowledgment makes him feel a little out of touch with reality.”
The Motive team also discusses Dead Space’s overhaul of the story and overall design, explaining how they tried to create a mix of old and new. “All the departments approached this with the same philosophy,” says Stewart. “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. A lot of it was about leaving the things that made the game so great and improving the issues where we thought we could do better. It was often difficult to walk this line, but I think we found a very good balance.
The interview comes as EA and Motive release a new Dead Space Remake trailer showing Isaac, Katherine, and the rest of the game’s cast as they fight to survive inside the doomed Ishimura. The release date has been set for January 27 and it has been confirmed that some versions of the remake will come with a free copy of Dead Space 2.
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Source : PC Gamesn
