The Callisto Protocol - Spiritual Dead Space successor

[MansizeRooster]

Sounds like the perfect game duration for me. One of my favourite things about the PS1 Resi trilogy is how brief the playthroughs are.

[Uncle Nasty]

1 hour ago, Strafe said:

It’s a review for readers of the Evening Standard, I think some of you  might need to lower their expectations of what to get from what they print.

Metro is usually excellent though. Also a free London paper. 

[Strafe]

I understand their games section is quite good but objectively, metro is otherwise trash.

[Duckula]

anywhere selling this early?

 

cos of the royal mail strikes i'm struggling to find anywhere

[glb]

Wildly guessing this will score around a 78 on Metacritic, which would be more than enough to keep me interested. Any higher than that would be a bonus. Depending on their intensity I think horror games aren't always the most accessible to a broader audience so I hope the reviews are by people that are familiar with the genre. If this proves to be a robust game, and delivers an enjoyable, atmospheric campaign in around 12-14 hours (as stated on the previous page) then it's almost a no-brainer for some winter escapism.

 

Lights off, headphones on, trousers awaiting to be browned.

[MechE]

The whole thing has been streamed on Twitch, which makes the review embargo slightly pointless.

 

Here's a link if anyone fancies a peek.

[NecroMorrius]

That’s the type of review I used to write for the Bristol evening post when I was 11 and the game was too hard or scary so I didn’t play it properly. 

[Transient Curse]

I'm expecting this to be rubbish, almost hoping for it since Microsoft have apparently stopped people being able to gift games from Argentina, and most of my games are gift codes from Argentina. If it gets good reviews, I'll probably feel compelled to buy it. 🙈

[carlospie]

Just buy it Argentina and VPN it yourself. I literally did it last night.

[Gabe]

On 25/11/2022 at 14:55, Down by Law said:

The whole death animations thing is really weird. I'd never go out of my way to fail at a game, trying to trigger a deliberate fail is often boring and takes effort, especially when someone will likely cut and compile the whole lot into a nice youtube video a week after the game comes out.

What? It clearly says the new animations are enemy death animations.

 

Anyway, it's still a weird thing to headline in DLC.

[Transient Curse]

9 hours ago, carlospie said:

Just buy it Argentina and VPN it yourself. I literally did it last night.

...I'm listening 🙂

[Down by Law]

57 minutes ago, Gabe said:

What? It clearly says the new animations are enemy death animations.

 

 

The ‘Contagion Bundle’ included in the season pass adds a new mode as well as “thirteen new Jacob death animations”. Meanwhile, the Riot Bundle adds a “previously undiscovered area” as well as “twelve new enemy death animations”.

 

Also, there's a trophy for seeing all player deaths in the base game. 

[Gabe]

57 minutes ago, Down by Law said:

 

The ‘Contagion Bundle’ included in the season pass adds a new mode as well as “thirteen new Jacob death animations”. Meanwhile, the Riot Bundle adds a “previously undiscovered area” as well as “twelve new enemy death animations”.

 

Also, there's a trophy for seeing all player deaths in the base game. 

Ha, oops, I just read the second one 

[Stevie]

10 hours ago, Transient Curse said:

I'm expecting this to be rubbish, 

Same. I never got the appeal of Dead Space. It was like a Poundland System Shock with predictable scares. Of course, different strokes for different folks.

[carlospie]

9 hours ago, Transient Curse said:

...I'm listening 🙂

Il write a guide in a bit

[Popo]

4 hours ago, Stevie said:

Same. I never got the appeal of Dead Space. It was like a Poundland System Shock with predictable scares. Of course, different strokes for different folks.

How’s the weather up there on your high horse? 

[Stevie]

42 minutes ago, Popo said:

How’s the weather up there on your high horse? 

 

Haha, I hate to be a gatekeeper of sci-fi horror. But, its true. £.0.99 😛 

 

 

(I can totally understand that people like it)

[MansizeRooster]

You people are nuts. Dead Space 1 was an utter triumph.

 

The less we talk about the sequels, the better.

[stir fry]

Dead Space was very cool and stylish with innovative mechanics but I always found the pacing in it odd. I wish the game was a bit better structured or something.

 

Wondering why the reviews for this aren't out yet

[NecroMorrius]

Dead Space is much more Resident Evil than it is System Shock. SS is an immersive sim, Dead Space is third person survival horror. They're all great though. Daddy or chips.

[glb]

3 hours ago, MansizeRooster said:

You people are nuts. Dead Space 1 was an utter triumph.

 

The less we talk about the sequels, the better.

 

Hey! The "Clever Girls" trophy in DS2 is one of my favourites!

 

Never played 3 though, that sounded gash.

[danbot]

I loved Dead Space 1 and 2.

I'm very tempted to spend irresponsible money tomorrow. 

I'll be somewhat responsible and wait for some impressions.

[Tomdominer]

3 minutes ago, danbot said:

I loved Dead Space 1 and 2.

I'm very tempted to spend irresponsible money tomorrow. 

I'll be somewhat responsible and wait for some impressions.

 

Yeah. If the reviews are good, you can always run out and pay through the nose!

[danbot]

Cool.

[NecroMorrius]

I'm watching a bit of the first hour on youtube and it's basically just Dead Space. Not in a bad way exactly, but hard to see what they've done to differentiate it.

[Stanley]

5 hours ago, MansizeRooster said:

You people are nuts. Dead Space 1 was an utter triumph.

 

The less we talk about the sequels, the better.

Dead Space 2 was brilliant. 

[carlospie]

Unsure who wanted the Vpn trick.

 

Go to eneba or gamivo website.

Find game you want.

Get key sent via email

Use Vpn on laptop or phone

Set to country of game code

Go to redeem.microsoft website whilst VPN is set to the same country.

Input code.

 

Only tip is don't swap to loads of different countries in one go or your account gets flagged and you can't use codes for a while.

 

I check my laptop later to see what free VPN I use but iv uses turkey, Argentina games loads.

 

I 'think' Brazil codes don't work 

 

My other tip is regularly go on HotUKDeals and search for Xbox. People put all sorts of country games on there so you can spot them 

[Hexx]

Where are the reviews?

[Treble]

Embargoed until release day. 

[grounded_dreams]

18 minutes ago, Hexx said:

Where are the reviews?

 

Seen a few posts on Reddit stating the review embargo lifts at 5am tomorrow morning UK time.