This is what remakes should strive to be; I can't believe I'm saying that about a remake of Dead Space, a game that for all intents and purposes didn't need one. However, the team at EA Motive were clearly the right people for the task. This game was so passionately updated, keeping everything from the original, updating and rebalancing gameplay, and most importantly making changes that keep the spirit of the the 2008 game but greatly improve the game as a whole. I liked the original game, but this version I absolutely loved.