Dead Space is a 2023 survival horror game developed by Motive Studio and published by Electronic Arts and is a remake of the 2008 game of the same name developed by EA Redwood Shores.

I'd never played Dead Space 2008, because I felt it was too scary. In 2023, I considered this a good time to play the remake.

Its tough to talk about it, since there were so many aspects of this game that I found to be absolutely fantastic, but at the same time, the core-loop felt tiring and cumbersome.

The physics, graphics, gore effects, how responsive and crisp everything felt. The atmosphere was spot on. The enemy AI was pretty good as well. The engineering effort put into this, makes Motive, one of the best game studios working on games today.

As far as the story is concerned, its serviceable. I found it to be enough to get me through the game but not enough for me to go in deep about the lore. That is a personal opinion and not a reflection of the writing chops that the folks behind this game and the 2008 original one, have.

The bit where I felt tired and a bit frustrated, were the core-loop that made you go "fetch this, fix that".

But I'm glad I played and finished this game.