A proper remake might be rising from the grave next year, but the festering corpse of Dead Space has come lurching back to life early in the form of The Callisto Protocol. This spiritual successor to the sci-fi survival horror series recreates the haunting blood-streaked hallways and space zombie-slaying hallmarks first established on the USG Ishimura back in 2008, and injects the gore with more awe than ever before thanks to some strikingly detailed splashes of blood and guts. Unfortunately, while the mutant dismemberment has never been more vivid, The Callisto Protocol’s shortcomings appear just as clearly. Occasional control annoyances, imbalanced combat, and a general absence of innovation result in a roughly eight-hour massacre that’s gratifyingly gruesome, but never quite as great as the series that inspired it.
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Happened as dated, per ign.com: "…is on melee combat, at least during the opening hours. With weapons and ammunition initially scarce,…"
Wikipedia's The Callisto Protocol article gives the survival-horror/Unreal Engine 4 infobox and describes the C.O.R.E. health implant, melee dodging, dismemberment and the DualSense haptics and 3D audio.
GamesRadar+'s own page, titled 'The Callisto Protocol guide,' carries a December 2, 2022 publish date matching the pin's stored release date, though the article content itself could not be retrieved to quote directly.
PCGamesN's review, published December 2, 2022, gives the game 9/10 and calls it 'A spiritual successor to Dead Space,' exactly matching the pin's stored release/review date.
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A delightful cat-based platforming adventure in a cyberpunk world worth exploring.
Silent protagonists are nothing new in video games, but Stray certainly pushes that concept to an interesting place. Part platformer, part traditional adventure game, this cyberpunk world full of neon-soaked robots transforms into a giant jungle gym from your perspective, which is just one foot off the ground. The concept of putting you in the paws of an average cat may be a silly one on the surface, but Stray uses that furry vehicle to tell a genuinely compelling story with some entertaining action along the way. Not all of its ideas land on their feet, but it was impossible to shake the fuzzy feeling it gave me right from the adorable opening minutes.
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