"Mystery is part of the importance of a game like this," says Schofield in an interview with GamesRadar+. Yet what we do know is that the game will be third-person and story-driven.
With only a teaser and a handful of interviews to go on, story details are light so far. The game revolves around horrific creatures and a conspiracy unfolding on the moon Callisto’s dingy and dangerous Black Iron Prison. Set in 2320, this adventure is set on a Jupiter moon humankind has never set foot on - Callisto. And, from what I can see in this short Gamescom demo, The Callisto Protocol may share plenty of DNA with its spiritual predecessor, but it looks like it’s mutated into something new.As we’ve already mentioned, this intergalactic survival horror tale takes place 300 years in the future. But that would be within the traditions of Glen Schofield himself Dead Space was recognisably a game in the lineage of Resident Evil 4, but you’d never reduce it to just RE4 in space.
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The stronger role melee plays in combat, the mutating enemies, the stealth design, and the weapons upgrade system all have the potential to make the fundamentals of The Callisto Protocol play significantly differently, even if the overall atmosphere and trajectory of the game still follows in the footsteps of Isaac Clarke. While it's undeniable that The Callisto Protocol has Dead Space vibes, it’s the small factors that suggest it could feel more of its own design and not just a fourth Dead Space by a different name. Again, there’s an element of The Last of Us here, but I’m interested to see Striking Distance’s take on how a Clicker-like enemy works, particularly if they’re a biophage capable of mutating. It sounds like very softly-softly tactics will be required to prevent being mobbed by a bunch of them. These sightless enemies camp out on walls, presumably listening out for you with sharp hearing that makes up for their lack of eyes. Director Glen Schofield told me that this kind of approach is largely optional, but that there is at least one stealth-focused segment in which you’ll have to get through a location infested by ‘The Blind’. The demo showed a short sequence in which Jacob quietly inches around a location while crouched, sneaking up on enemies for a takedown attack. Using the Grip to hold a biophage in front of you as a makeshift meat shield, as seen in the ONL demo, certainly hints at a system with the potential for some very fun (if grim) improvised tactics.Īnother area in which The Callisto Protocol reconsiders the Dead Space playbook is through stealth segments. The combination of anti-gravity manipulation via the Grip power, long-range guns, melee smackdowns, and the environmental deathtraps that litter each level will hopefully add a creative edge to The Callisto Protocol’s combat. It looks heavy and satisfyingly brutal, but most importantly it acts as a core ability in a combat loop that’s admirably varied for a survival horror. Jacob has a stun baton, but to be honest it seems to behave more like a blunt cleaver, hacking away chunks of flesh and lengths of limbs with each strike. When you’re not given the luxury of the distance needed to fire a gun, you can fall back on melee attacks.
I’m hoping that the upgrades include meaningful enhancements rather than basic stat increases I quite like the idea of tailoring the pistol to be the perfect anti-mutation device, for instance, honing in on its accuracy and power to allow for precision tentacle-severing shots. It seems as though, over time, weapons will evolve from simple slug slingers to tools that are both more advanced and more specialised. Rather than the linear-ish, left-to-right upgrade paths of Dead Space’s Benches, new enhancement options at the 3D printer are arranged much like a skill tree, with individual branches. It’s a small thing, but I genuinely got a lot of joy out of seeing Jacob’s handgun and stun baton physically change within the printer’s chamber.īut long-term interest in The Callisto Protocol’s weapons will hopefully come via the web of upgrade options.
The detailed and tactile nature of the animation reminded me of a sci-fi take on The Last of Us: Part 2’s weapon benches. The demonstration showed protagonist Jacob slotting his pistol into a 3D printer which then added new physical components to the gun. Talking of blasting, it appears that you’ll have a lot of control over exactly how you shoot the biophage to pieces thanks to an unexpectedly deep weapon upgrade system.
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