The Callisto Protocol PC

[Lenny Solidus]

A true reimagined Dead Space style experience by the looks of it. December 2nd.

[Animalmother]

That looks great. Several of the people from the Dead Space series are involved as well, plus it's out this year.

[ManBearSquid]

It's what I'm most eager to try this year. Dead Space 1 and 2 are up their with my top games.

[Lenny Solidus]

[Animalmother]

[Hatredsheart]

That Half-Life 2-esque gravity gun looks fun.

[Animalmother]

Nice

[Snowy]

That is definitely not for me. Man I hate scary games

[Lenny Solidus]

I'm yet to complete Resident Evil 7 and RE2 remakes, horror titles are somehow always such a temptation, at the same time I'd rather not have a heart attack trying to inch my way through slamming the menu button and quitting out when it all gets too much suddenly. With this being such a Dead Space clone, that temptation is at an all-time high - I did eventually finish 1 and 2 and loved both experiences.

Hard to believe it's been almost ten years to the very month since even Dead Space 3 first released, and what do you know we have had no really good sci-fi horror titles since yet come December and January we are getting two of them in Protocol and the Dead Space remake respectively. That's nothing if not a result.

[Lenny Solidus]

[Animalmother]

Assuming there's no delays it's out in about 2 weeks time

[Animalmother]

So I was looking at the cost of this game. On Xbox it's €80 for the bog standard digital copy, that goes up to €90 for some deluxe shite. Boxed copy from a shop is €50...what?

[Sly Boots]

Apparently this runs like an absolute dog on PC.

Sometimes when we get sent review code for a game, the PR will say that they'll be getting PC code later, but if we want we can have a console code so we can get a head start playing the game. There are a lot of reasons that might happen, but I'll be honest: it's never a great sign. I'm usually pretty chillaxed about the occasional wonky animation or frame stuttering when a game runs, but in this case The Callisto Protocol runs so badly on PC that if it were my child and the coach wasn't putting it in to play football - even as a sub in the last five minutes, you know, just to give it a go, like - I'd be saying, "Yeah, bench the sucker, I get it."

The stuttering and slowing down whenever anything moves is especially problematic in a horror game where your survival depends on quickly dodge-reacting to sudden threats. So I can't, right now, recommend you get The Callisto Protocol on PC. If Striking Distance get it running properly? Eh. Maybe.

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/the-ca ... col-review

Currently sitting at 'mostly negative' (26% positive) on Steam also...

[Animalmother]

Well that's disappointing

[Animalmother]

Looks amazing, but...
.Terrible PC performance
.Combat broken
.Hardly any story
."One of the worst boss battles I've ever experienced"
.A long walk down a corridor with no exploration or puzzles

Jesus that is massively disappointing