That means they’ll have to ambush adversaries by shivving them with stealth attacks. Players quickly learn that the Biophage creatures are tough and can overwhelm Jacob.

Part of that comes from the melee-heavy combat system. At first glance, they appear like regular people who fall prey to a catastrophe bigger than themselves.Īlthough the DNA of both games is similar, “Callisto Protocol” manages to establish its own identity. These backgrounds give each protagonist an everyman quality.

He’s an engineer on a repair team sent to the USG Ishimura. In “Callisto Protocol,” Jacob Lee, played by Josh Duhamel, is a pilot who is wrongly imprisoned on Jupiter’s moon “Dead Space” stars Isaac Clarke, voiced by Gunner Wright. And they both star heroes who aren’t the typical space marine. “Callisto Protocol” and the “Dead Space” remake both focus on mysterious outbreaks, in which humans, or their remains, metamorphize into horrific creatures. In effect, his past and present are facing off, as the two games have come out within weeks of each other.īoth owe a huge debt to the 2008 original, which sets the mood and style of both new projects. The video game designer recently returned to the survival-horror genre with the release of “Callisto Protocol,” and Electronic Arts, his former employer, just launched a remake of “Dead Space,” a project that helped define his career. It must be a strange time for Glen Schofield.

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