If there’s one thing you can be sure of, it’s that the Dead Space remake will be full of blood, guts, and gore, much like the original game. But luckily, Electronic Arts has added an extra feature that’ll help the faint of heart make their way to Isaac’s researcher girlfriend, Nicole, without losing eight of their nine lives.
Before you even step foot into the USG Ishimura, you are met with a content warning that reads, “Dead Space contains graphic violence, including explicit depictions of dismemberment, impalement, blood, gore, vomit, and death. Gameplay and cinematic scenes depict numerous traumatic events and portray harmful behaviors associated with mental health. Topics include self-harm and suicidal ideations, death of colleagues and relatives, claustrophobia, psychosis, visual/auditory delusions, and obsessive behaviors.”
This warning isn’t the only effort EA has made to help players last through all the messy situations. There’s an in-game toggle that alerts you before horribly deformed necromorphs jump onto your screen or if there’s a disturbing scene of self-harm.
If that’s not enough for you, then EA has even gone a step further and added a second toggle that exists to hide disturbing incidents. By switching this on, you will no longer see the mutated monsters, as they will be blurred out. Isaac Clarke’s death animations will also not be visible, replaced by a black screen. This may well be for the best, considering how messed up some of them are. No one likes seeing a blade slash through someone's ribcage or a tentacle burrow into the back of someone’s head and burst through their mouth.
There is also an external site(opens in new tab) that catalogs each chapter with warnings on suicide, amputation, needles, or
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