Rinse and repeat
I’ve recently been torn in a two-way decision for my next purchase. The choice: Atari 50: The Anniversary Collection or the Dead Space remake. On the surface, these two titles have little in common, but both approach the concept of nostalgia, albeit in two very different ways.
Whilst Atari 50 presents older games as they were, with context, interviews and a real desire to give a feel for the era in which they were released, Dead Space follows that intriguing idea of updating the game so it feels “as you remember it”. This is a trick that Halo employed with the remakes of the first two entries (although they did, of course, offer the shock value of switching to the
That’s not to say Atari’s method is without merit – it is like the Criterion Collection of games, that presents the games, blemishes and all, but treats the creation and development of the titles with the
