While the remake of Dead Space brings general improvements across the board, making for a modern and seamless experience with mesmerizing ray-traced lighting, Sony wants you to know that the sci-fi horror game will play a little better on PS5.
It all comes back to DualSense control over PS5 and how its unique technologies, such as haptic feedback and adaptive stimuli, are used dead space more immersive. the PlayStation Blog (Opens in a new tab) It details all the different ways the game uses the console’s hardware, but I’m really excited about what this will mean for the hashing Necromorphs aboard USG Ishimura.
By utilizing adaptive DualSense triggers, the new version does justice dead spaceThe iconic plasma cutter. This is because, through positional vibrations, you will feel the kinetic nature of the plasma energy round being pushed into the trigger before it unleashes the full force of the beam. After firing, the operators quickly re-engage, so you can aim another shot and shoot slashers, hunters, and sizzling enemies.
If there’s anything to know about a space survival game, it’s that accuracy is the key above panic. True to the nature of the genre, you’re never flush with ammo, which means you have to choose when you fire your shots and which party you aim at carefully. That’s because bullets (to a large extent) don’t slow down the terrors that haunt the deck of the spaceship you’re exploring dead space.
Dead Space’s more traditional weapons get the full PS5 controller treatment, too. A largely straightforward automatic weapon, the pulse rifle features accurate weight and recoil through a combination of haptic feedback and adaptive triggers. This is reflected in the weapon’s impact, the appropriate heavy kick with each round, and how the gun feels after each bullet exits the chamber. It is a sharp sledgehammer of Isaac Clarke’s arsenal, after all, lacking the surgical precision of the engineer’s more technical stock. I’m glad to hear it’s just as chaotic in the remake as it is in the original game.
Tactile feedback is as important to the experience as stimuli, especially when it comes to Isaac’s suit and other survival tools. One of the smaller touches I look forward to is the zero gravity moments and the air locker. That’s because not only will you be able to feel the vaporization of the atmosphere as you open those barn doors with your PS5 console, but there’s also a heightened heft to Clarke’s shoes pulling off the ship’s steel as well.
Kinesis and Statis tools received the same treatment as DualSense. You’ll get “real-time feedback” when you slow down environmental elements and enemies, or throw objects, says Vincent Wang, senior brand manager at Motive. Dead Space isn’t the first PS5 horror title to use the technology in this way, and the game’s spiritual successor, The Callisto Protocol, adds an extra layer of violence thanks to the PS5 controller. In this deep space horror game, you have a tool called GRP that allows you to lift and throw things around the environment. There too, you can feel the power surge in the device and the change in the weight of the things you pick up.
The grave of the mutilated
Even more fun, EA Motive has completely redesigned how you can cannibalize the various living creatures in the game’s corridors and crawl spaces. a look at Technical demonstration of dismemberment and body destruction technology It reveals what’s in store for the villains you’ll encounter, and it’s not always good news for them.
Just as the device on your character’s back displays their Health, Statis and Kinesis reserves, Necromorphs also have their way in the world of showing information as well. It’s a lot less technical, but as you deal damage to your enemies, you’ll see bones break and layers of rotten flesh brutally split open. This sets you up to dynamically see where raw fragmentation is weak in real time without the need for a detailed HUD or anything that breaks the immersion.
The Necro can even be reduced to a mess of skeletal remains just to continue their assault on the undead in a weakened state. It’s new in the world dead space, and must go the creepy extra mile to make you feel even more vulnerable in the doomed task of finding your girlfriend and making it out alive. Remember to tread the bloody hell out of those corpses, because they can often be dead, and I can’t wait to see what surprises are just around the corner when the game launches on January 27th.