As is often the case, the rumours of a Dead Space remake are true: Motive, which last developed Star Wars Squadrons, is now reimagining the now sadly defunct Visceral Games creation.

One of the biggest EA Play Live announcements were about Dead Space getting a remake, which will skip the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. „The Dead Space franchise made a huge impact on the survival horror genre when it was released 12 years ago, and I came to Motive as a fan first to specifically work on this game.

We have a passionate team at Motive who are approaching this remake as a love letter to the franchise. Going back to the original and having the opportunity to do so on next-gen consoles excited everyone on the team. As we look to modernize the game, we’ve reached out to dedicated fans and invited them to provide us with feedback since the early stages of production to deliver the Dead Space game they want and for new players to enjoy as well,” said Dead Space remake senior producer Phillippe Ducharme in a press release.

What is Dead Space? Electronic Arts describes it reasonably well: „The sci-fi classic survival horror game, Dead Space, will be returning as a remake completely rebuilt from the ground up. Dead Space is being developed exclusively for next-generation consoles and PC, raising the level of horror and immersion to unprecedented heights for the franchise through stunning visuals, audio, and controls powered by the Frostbite game engine. Fans will experience an improved story, characters, gameplay mechanics, and more as they fight to survive a living nightmare aboard the desolate mining starship, the USG Ishimura, all while uncovering the dreadful mystery of what happened to the slaughtered crew and ship.

In Dead Space, Isaac Clarke is an everyman engineer on a mission to repair a vast, sprawling starship, the USG Ishimura, only to discover something has gone wrong. The ship’s crew has been slaughtered and infected by some alien scourge… and Isaac’s beloved partner, Nicole, is lost somewhere on board. Now Isaac is alone with only his tools and engineering skills as he attempts to uncover the nightmarish mystery of what happened aboard the Ishimura. Trapped with hostile creatures called “necromorphs,” Isaac faces a battle for survival, not only against the escalating terrors of the ship, but his crumbling sanity,” the publisher wrote.

Dead Space remake is launching at an unknown date on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, and PC. Knowing the publisher, it only feels like it trying to cash in on the success of Resident Evil, so Electronic Arts decided to revive a dormant IP that got shot in the head after it wasn’t up to speed versus Call of Duty (which itself was an inexplicable move by EA).

Source: Gematsu