

He tells Isaac that the Marker is located in the Government Sector under lockdown. Stross contacts Isaac again and he reluctantly decides to trust Stross, as his only mission now is to destroy the Marker.

As they are about to leave, a Gunship guns down Daina and her associates, allowing Isaac to escape. Upon his arrival, two guards seize Isaac as Daina reveals that she is a Unitologist sent to “recover” Isaac, claiming that he is responsible for building the Marker that is causing the current infestation and that they need him to build more.

Ignoring Stross, Isaac fights his way across the city, making his way to Daina. He is also contacted by another patient, Nolan Stross, claiming he and Isaac can destroy the Marker. He is later contacted by a woman named Daina Le Guin, who guides him to her location. However, before he can remove the straitjacket, Franco is killed and transformed into a Necromorph, leaving Isaac to escape on his own. Isaac Clarke has no memory of the last three years, having just been released by Franco, the protagonist of Dead Space: Ignition. It’ll also arrive on PS5 and Xbox One Series consoles then, too.The game begins in a hospital on the Sprawl, a densely populated metropolis built on a shard of the moon Titan, Saturn's largest moon. The Dead Space remake launches on Steam and the Epic Games Store on January 27th for £50/$60/€60. The Intensity Director’s mostly intended for times you’re revisiting areas of the now freely roamable Ishimura. This is meant to unsettle you as you ramble with Isaac around the hulking abandoned spaceframe of the USG Ishimura, throwing random Necromorph enemies at you or setting off environmental effects. One of these is something called the Intensity Director, which creative lead Roman Campos-Oriola detailed back in October. Motive say they’re trying to capture the survival horror atmosphere of the original Dead Space with their remake, but they’re adding in a few twists of their own.

There'll be more than a decade’s worth of graphical changes to account for between the remake and the sequel, though. Playing through the Dead Space remake and rolling straight into Dead Space 2 and 3 might feel less jarring in that sense. The remake brings the original Dead Space in line with its sequels by giving protagonist and armoured engineer Isaac Clarke a voice, unlike the 2008 version. If you’ve already pre-ordered the Dead Space remake before the Dead Space 2 giveaway became a thing then don’t fret, you’ll still receive the game. Watch on YouTube Motive's Dead Space remake has a few surprises of its own.
