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A recent preview of the Dead Space remake gave us our first glimpse of Isaac Clarke’s new face, and his surprisingly youthful and father-like appearance is a hit with fans of the series.
From the very beginning of the announcement of the Dead Space remake, it was clear that Isaac Clarke would play a larger role this time around. One of the first big changes announced in the remake was that Isaac would now talk.
However, the fact that Isaac Clarke has become more talkative is not the only thing that has changed in his appearance. As shown in a recent IGN First video explaining the changes to the game’s story, Isaac also received a completely different face this time around. The video shows Isaac during the opening segments of the Dead Space remake, but it wasn’t the character’s new garrulity that caught everyone’s attention.
Dead Space fans have been quick to react to the changes, and they don’t seem to be happy with them. One of the most popular tweets about the change says that Isaac Clarke now looks like a “youth pastor” and a Twitter user wonders how the developers managed to “whitewash the white guy”.
In addition to youth pastors and middle-aged fathers, Isaac’s new face model has also been compared to Adam Sandler and Cole Phelps of LA Noire. However, the only accurate comparison is Andy Bernard from The Office. Let’s hope all this anger management work doesn’t stop him from killing Necromorphs.
On the Dead Space Redditor subreddit, Pebble_Bandit even made a face edit that makes Isaac look a little closer to how he was in the original game, while still looking much younger and fresher. The reaction to this version of the face, which was made more similar to how it looked in the game.
However, some Dead Space fans don’t seem to be very concerned about the changes. Some point out that Isaac has always looked like a “typical white guy” and that this version of his face is at least a little closer to his voice actor, Gunnar Wright. Others point out how frustrating it will be to watch this sweet version of Isaac have his day completely ruined.
Ironically, this isn’t the first time this year that a remake of a beloved horror game has been ridiculed for the way the protagonist’s face has changed. Earlier this year, Konami announced that it was teaming up with the Bloober Team to create a remake of Silent Hill 2, and a much more expressive James Sunderland was shown in the trailer for it.
Silent Hill fans weren’t impressed with the change, deriding how normal he now looks and how the remake turned him into “a guy who would kill his wife”.