Similarly, the leapers no longer seem to walk on their hands really fast towards Isaac like the did in the OG which I think is a shame as it looked really creepy. They also don't seem to do that thing anymore where they flail their spikes wildly after a decap. Their new animations just don't look as unsettling as they did in the OG, imo. Because we do essentially track the peaks and valleys of tension, to make sure that it’s not just back-to-back-to-back high-intensity events.I wasn't sure if it was just me because I hadn't seen anyone else mention it but I feel like the necromorphs are a lot less creepy in the remake due to some changes they made to their animations.įor example, the slashers move less erratically and seem to be slower and less aggressive than in the original. But then you might go into another room and suddenly, there’s a Slasher spawning from a wall vent, plus the lights turn off, plus there’s fog in the environment, and it becomes a lot more intense.” There might be an easy room with just a few sounds here and there, but that’s it. So we monitor the amount of intensity the player is going through while going from room to room. Other members of the team chipped in to explain this new mechanic: “It lets us control the emotion and tension, and to always keep the player on their toes, to keep them careful. “The Intensity Director is a way for us to control the stress level for the player, to be sure there’s always something happening,” says the game’s director Eric Baptizat.

This is what they call the “Intensity Director”.

In it, the studio describes a new “artificial intelligence” that’ll keep a track of our stress during every moment of gameplay, and which can cause over 1200 different new scares. Every announcement they make about the title gets us more excited and the latest update on the official blog is the best example. There’s less than two weeks until the release of the Dead Space remake (set for January 27, 2023) and the developers at EA Motive seem to be ready to make us wish the game was here already.

Dead space counter animations