We're not using any code, any assets, anything from the original. We rebuilt completely how it works because it's a completely new engine. But obviously the model is not the same, the textures are not the same, the sounds are not the same. “But you feel like it's the same, you think it's the same as you remember it. “The plasma cutter is not the same as in the original Dead Space,” Campos-Oriola openly admits. And the closer you look, the more differences you’ll find. It’s with this more detailed approach that the differences between the original Plasma Cutter and its remake successor begin. What is each piece? What are those little elements really doing? Whether or not we're using that afterward in game, we had to really define how that thing would move and behave if it was a real tool.” “With the visual fidelity, both in terms of graphics but also in some of animations that we have today, we had to go much more in detail on how that thing actually works. “We really had to go back to the drawing board,” Campos-Oriola explains. As the rotating muzzle flips from vertical to horizontal format you can see the interlocking components of the mechanism twist in its housing. At first these may seem invisible, but take a close look at the weapon’s refreshed, high-definition model and you’ll see dozens of new little details.

But while the form and function of the Plasma Cutter is just how you remember it, EA Motive has made some small changes and improvements.

I love the plasma cutter dead space