Here’s something I try not to remember: Dead Space is old. Over 10 years old, if you can believe it; I know I couldn’t when I looked the game up after the remake was announced. It’s been a few years since my third, maybe fourth playthrough of Visceral’s 2008 classic. I last booted it up to break in a new sound bar for my TV and – oops – ended up playing through the whole thing. I was instantly hooked all over again, but I can also remember being genuinely surprised by how dated it looked on my last run, my nostalgia-colored memories clashing with the now-officially-retro reality. Did it really look so flat? Were these characters really so hammy? It’s been so long that I almost feel like I can’t trust my memories of the original.
