Now reports online suggest that the game’s visual woes have indeed been addressed.

For better and worse, updates have come in hot and fast on this one, requiring not one but two restarts of our coverage - hence the late arrival of this comparison piece. However, the game arrived with serious issues, including completely unlocked frame-rates on the console's quality modes (and Series S) in the preview code, resulting in extremely uneven performance, then serious image quality problems with the day one patch applied, with current-gen consoles sporting a raw, aliased presentation. Some fifteen years and two console generations later, Dead Space has been fully remade with modern tools, sporting excellent new artwork, sophisticated rendering features, and revamped level layouts and content.Īs John has covered in detail, Dead Space is on the whole a successful remake effort.

The original Dead Space was a survival horror masterclass - a highly atmospheric and tense action game that exploited seventh-gen console hardware to deliver something really special.

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