The Callisto Protocol's first tiny bit of gameplay is like Dead Space but with Mortal Kombat's gore

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At tonight's Geoff Fest (which I understand is officially called Summer Game Fest) we were treated to a first little sliver of gameplay from upcoming space survival-horror The Callisto Protocol, and boy-howdy you shouldn't watch this if you don't like gore, or if you're sitting accross from someone currently eating a rare steak for humorous narrative metaphor purposes.

Yup, that sure is your player character getting sucked into an engine, there. I was watching this on stream with subtitles, and they read "[machine worrying noises]". Me too, little engine, me too.

Once you get over that, of course, you notice the similarities to Dead Space: the shooting monster limbs, the suit with a little health light meter on the back, the whole abandoned tunnels in space of it all, and so on. This is not surprising, because the developer (Striking Distance Studio) was founded by Glen Schofield, who is a Dead Space co-creator. And it's not like Dead Space had no gore - far from it - but The Callisto Protocol is definitely enjoying it much more. All those mutant prisoners loved the spine ripping in Mortal Kombat.

There are other differences too, and although we haven't seen much of anything in The Callisto Protocol yet (it was first properly teased in December 2020), the gameplay appeared to show some kind of grav-gun thingy which you can use to pick up and throw baddies a bit like wot you can do in Half Life 2. The baddies seem quite meaty compared to yer standard necromorphs, too, and I am into the sort of frozen doomed vibe of the prison - kind of like a stranded icebreaker ship, y'know?

We got an extended reveal trailer too, which has even more creative deaths. See the camera linger, with the sensitivity and longing of a lover, on