We’ve actually simplified it rather than embellished it, to improve the clarity and the readability of it.” “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. “Looking back at it, there was a little bit of frustration around how to control or how to read it quickly,” he said. MacMillan says that as a result, the map will be easier to use and much more readable. Speaking recently with Inverse, Realization Director Joel MacMillan confirmed that unlike in the original, the remake’s map will be 2D, not 3D.

Thankfully, it looks like the upcoming Dead Space remake is making some improvements on that front. Like all of the game’s UI, the map was presented as a diegetic 3D hologram projection, and though it was certainly a cool concept, many found it a bit clunky to use.

2008’s Dead Space stands as one of the most highly-regarded survival horror games of all time, but like every other game ever made, it wasn’t without its issues, minimal though they may have been.

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