
And I felt that in my short time with the game. He understands the character and gives him life in a way that would be nigh impossible to replace. At this point, everyone is of the mind that Gunner is Isaac. In fact, Project Technical Director David Robillard and Senior Producer Philippe Ducharme told me it was imperative. The voice of Isaac Clarke since the very beginning, EA and Motive Studio knew they had to bring Gunner back. He’s as desperate as the rest of the crew to make sense of the situation and survive, and his actions and emotions are carried out masterfully once again by the impeccable Gunner Wright. Isaac is, himself, engaged in the narrative. No longer does he simply grunt, groan, and play passive observer as other characters carry on the narrative. Perhaps one of the most notable features of the Dead Space remake is that Isaac has full dialogue this time around. A darker, deadlier, more connected Ishimuraįor the purposes of my demo, I got to see the opening act and first few chapters of the Dead Space remake, up to around the point where we go explore the Medical Wing and all of the terrible things that happened there. Recently, I got a chance to sit down with an early build of the game and after what I saw, I feel confident they are on the right path to both a solid revisit to the original and a definitive experience all its own. Remaking such a masterpiece was a tall order, but EA and Motive Studio have taken up the task with their remake of Dead Space coming in 2023. While Resident Evil was leaning into action and Silent Hill was floundering, Dead Space came around and showed us that games can be legitimately terrifying again.

It revitalized horror in a time when the genre was in a poor state. Dead Space did an incredible thing for horror games when it first came out in 2008.
