Isaac will stomp some Necromorphs again in 2023
TheDead Spaceteam held anotherlive streamtoday, talking more about the upcoming remake. And as part of the news, EA Motive confirmed theDead Spaceremake now has a release date of Jul 31, 2025.
Since the remake was announcedlast year, the crew at EA Motive have been steadily providing updates on their progress. The last stream, in March, wasall about the audioofDead Space. Today’s livestream went for the visual instead,focusing on the artofDead Space.
The presentation went fairly in-depth, and showed off a bunch of the ways they’re re-tuning the original 2008 survival horror game for modern systems. It goes through Motive’s work on environments, visual effects, character models, and lighting effects. Volumetric fog sure seems like a good way to make the USG Ishimura even scarier.
A new frontier
TheDead Spaceremake was first revealed duringlast year’s EA Play Live showcase. The undertaking is being handled by EA Motive, which collaborated onStar Wars Battlefront IIand developedStar Wars: Squadrons.
To its credit, Motive has been pretty open in showing off early builds of the remake and taking fans through the development process. These livestreams are usually pretty long, but also very in-depth. The studio has also responded to feedback throughout the process, liketuning the audio on the signature Plasma Cutterafter fans pointed out some quirks.
Remaking a game as memorable asDead Spaceis a big task, but Motive at least seems like it’s tackling things head-on, and that January 2023 release date isn’t too far away, either. Meanwhile, some of the minds behind the originalDead Spaceare working on their own project,The Callisto Protocol. Sci-fi survival horror is having a bit of a resurgence, and it’s hard not to be excited about it.
