Technological advances since the first game will allow Motive to get closer than ever to the original vision of Dead Space. “We've actually simplified it rather than embellished it, to improve the clarity and the readability of it.”īut for other aspects of the game, more is definitely more. You’d have to kind of rotate it to figure out what's the best angle to see where your character is and where you need to go,” MacMillan says.

“Looking back at it, there was a little bit of frustration around how to control or how to read it quickly. Among the most notable is a welcome reworking of the frustrating in-game map, which will now be presented in 2D rather than 3D. While the Dead Space remake will be an almost identical recreation of the original, it will also include a variety of improvements. This new free trial system allows EA to make the game free for a limited time but cut players off after 90 minutes, potentially drawing them in and convincing them to buy the full game in the process.As expected, the Dead Space remake comes with a plethora of improvements from the original. From a publisher’s perspective, these aren’t the best fit for single-player games like Dead Space, as players could conceivably get through the 12-hour horror adventure over the course of a weekend and there isn’t a dedicated for interested players to try. Players do have to download the full game before starting the free trial and can then choose to purchase the full game once their 90 minutes are up.įree periods for games aren’t exactly a new thing for Steam, but typically these came in the form of free weekends where players would get access to an entire game, like Crusader Kings III, for several days. Over the next two weeks, anyone with a Steam account can try out Dead Space for an hour and a half for free. Now, almost four months after launch, EA announced it is running a 20% off sale for Dead Space on Steam and is offering a free trial through May 29. Motive released its remake of Dead Space in January to critical acclaim. The first title to have one is EA Motive’s Dead Space remake. Steam is rolling out a new feature that allows developers and publishers to offer limited-time free trials for their games.

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