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Survival horror game The Callisto Protocol is still mostly a mystery, but you can bet on a Dead Space-style holo HUD

December 21, 2020

One of the biggest reveals at Thursday night’s Game Awards was The Callisto Protocol, a new sci-fi survival horror game from a team of veterans who worked on EA’s Dead Space series. It’s still a long way off, scheduled for 2022, and the cinematic trailer is more of a mood piece than anything. We can glean that it’s set in a dingy futuristic prison, and there’s a very nasty monster (alien? mutant?) on the premises. I couldn’t get much more concrete detail out of chief development officer Steve Papoutsis when we chatted after the reveal, but I did at least confirm one suspicion: Dead Space’s beloved holographic HUD is coming back in some form.In one of the first shots in the trailer, an unnamed prisoner sits up in bed. On his neck is a glowing green implant—what I’d guess is some kind of restraining implant, green to symbolize he’s currently healthy. It’s a pretty blatant nod to the spinal cord health indicator on the back of Dead Space’s suits, a cleverly “in-universe” way to communicate without plastering a HUD over the action. Dead Space famously did that for everything, projecting its menus as holograms instead of breaking immersion.I’m not exactly…

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