With the GRP, I can instakill almost every zombie in the game by hurling them into any of the gratuitously common spiked walls in the game (a horrifying safety hazard for UJC workers but a delightful mechanic for gamers). Dead Space’s main man is humanised even further in the remake by his ability to talk, rather than merely accept his crewmates’ orders without so much as a silent nod of acknowledgement like he. It takes a lot of effort, risk, time and ammo to kill zombies with conventional combat. Here was my dilemma, if you could call it that: Do I spend all my precious credits making a bunch of mediocre guns I can’t find ammo for? Or do I focus on buffing my small collection of free weapons to fight the progressively tougher and scarier zombies? It was a no-brainer - especially when it came to the GRP.

This made it difficult for me to experiment with different weapons because nearly all the obtainable guns have to be crafted at significant cost. All zombies have a hardy resistance to gunfire, ammo is scarce and resources are hard to come by. Related: Is Dead Space a Remake or a Remaster. This takes a lot of processing power, which the Xbox One and PS4 simply don’t have. There are a lot of tech advancements being utilized in the game, such as a lack of traditional loading screens.

But while playing, it can feel like “The Callisto Protocol” focused on the game’s melee system to the detriment of other mechanics. That perfectly ties into the second reason, which is the technical demand for Dead Space Remake.

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