While Dead Space Remake won’t be released for another few months, excited fans can pre-order Isaac Clarke’s latest game in a neat collector’s edition from Limited Run Games, a company known for special releases games like last year’s Star Wars: KOTOR Switch port. These developments, plus EA Motive’s willingness to listen to fan feedback regarding Dead Space Remake’s weapon sounds, all serve as promising signs for the upcoming sci-fi/horror reboot. Additionally, Dead Space Remake won’t have any loading screens or camera cuts, meaning that Isaac’s harrowing journey through the Ishimura will be a seamless tale filled with blood and dread. The brutal dismemberment of past Dead Space games is being enhanced in Dead Space Remake with new mechanics that will show the flesh and bone of Issac’s Necromorph foes. So, this is worth picking up if you never played Half-Life.2013’s Dead Space 3 may have left horror fans underwhelmed, but EA Motive has promised to retain the level of terror that made the original Dead Space an instant classic in Dead Space Remake. Black Mesa also deviated from the original game by making subtle level design choices, giving a unique spin to it while not losing the Half-Life identity.įurthermore, the developers created one of the most hated sections of the original game, Zen, into something marvelous.

And well, that resulted in Black Mesa.Īs mentioned above, Black Mesa is a source engine remake for the first Half-Life, adding every feature that the engine brings with itself.

Crowbar Collective, a group of modders turned developers banded together to remake the first Half-Life. Unfortunately, the original Half-Life never got a Source engine treatment by Valve. While the second Half-Life and its episodes paved the way for features like realistic game physics, the first Half-Life gave us the gift called the GoldSRC engine. Half-Life by Valve changed gaming in a turbulent way.

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