It makes a little bit of (business) sense, since Striking Distance Studios is owned by Krafton, the same parent company who oversees PUBG Studios. 'I presented this game to them, and so what we did was we made it fit within the PUBG storyline.' 'The funny thing is, I came in with this story when I went and met with the PUBG people for the first time and started talking about and building a studio,' Schofield said. In an August 2021 interview, director Glen Schofield said that The Callisto Protocol was indeed part of the PUBG universe. It's not! Though for a little while, it was. (Image credit: Striking Distance Studios) So is The Callisto Protocol part of the PUBG universe or not? Schofield said during the same Q&A that he wants The Callisto Protocol to be ' the most terrifying game of all time (opens in new tab),' which is an incredibly ambitious undertaking, given we live in a world with games like Visage, Silent Hill 2, Murder House, Alien Isolation, and indeed the original Dead Space. (Do you think Dark Souls 2 is the best Souls game? If yes, think of how desolate and isolated you feel, and multiply that by thousands.)

Can't think of anything more desolate and isolated than that.' 'Prison is a really scary place,' Schofield somewhat redundantly pronounced (opens in new tab) in a 2020 Discord Q&A, before adding, 'And a prison on Jupiter's dead moon is terrifying. It's an exquisitely 'eff this shit' situation that sounds as indebted to the Alien films as it is to the Dead Space games. If a privately-owned prison installation wasn't evil enough, protagonist Jacob Lee wakes up one day to find the prison overrun with hostile aliens. In The Callisto Protocol an organization called the United Jupiter Company has built a prison colony there called Black Iron. Specifically, a dead moon of Jupiter called Callisto, which actually exists (opens in new tab) in real life. If the obvious Dead Space parallels hold true, it'll belong to the survival horror school of 'yeah, you can shoot the baddies, but we're not gonna make it easy.' Where is The Callisto Protocol set? Otherwise, it remains to be seen what sorts of mechanics surround all that splattering. Hacking off limbs is a valuable tactical option, as is hurling enemies into environmental hazards using a gravity weapon called The Grip.

The Callisto Protocol definitely seems heavy on the third-person combat, in both melee and shooting flavors, and with all the splattered viscera you'd expect. The Callisto Protocol is very much one of those, down to the gruesome death animations.

It's got your heavy, thudding protagonist, malformed alien-human hybrids lurking in poorly-lit space hallways, high-recoil firearms for blasting off enemy extremities. This first look at gameplay footage (opens in new tab) for The Callisto Protocol should give Dead Space fans plenty to rejoice. For Jacob, that sentence seems to mostly entail stomping, bludgeoning, and shooting his way through buckets worth of bodily fluids, either human or alien. In the official gameplay reveal trailer, we're given a sense of protagonist Jacob Lee's circumstances: apparently, crash-landing a little too close to the maximum security prison on the 'dead moon' of Callisto is enough to earn yourself a sentence. Our point of view then shifts to a closed circuit camera witnessing this event, and keeps zooming out until we see the figure watching that footage, who then wanders off to a window overlooking a bleak landscape that is definitely not planet Earth. It's a cinematic trailer with no actual gameplay footage, but it makes abundantly clear that The Callisto Protocol will be gory sci-fi horror in the Dead Space mold, complete with eerie flickering corridors, ominous holographic transmissions, and, yeah, an extremely unpleasant looking alien.Ī prisoner wakes in a less-than-ideal prison cell, before being attacked (presumably fatally) by the aforementioned alien. We first saw The Callisto Protocol reveal trailer (opens in new tab) back in the heady days of December 2020.

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