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'The Callisto Protocol' Review: Guts, Death, and Robots

The unfortunate Jacob Lee, <em>The Callisto Protocol </em>protagonist beset by the game's countless horrors.

2008's Dead Space hit the gaming world like a gut-punch. Terrifying and brilliantly immersive, it showed how much a game could get us to tense up and squirm in our seats.

Now, Dead Space's director, Glen Schofield, is back with The Callisto Protocol. He and his new studio took what worked for that classic and cranked it up to 11.

"I asked them what type of game they were trying to create," says star Karen Fukuhara, who plays central character Dani Nakamura in the

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