THE CALLISTO PROTOCOL: RETURNING TO THE DEAD OF SPACE
Glen Schofield, the creator of one sci-fi horror franchise, is about to unleash a second - with the added frisson of being stalked by the first. Richie Shoemaker gets a few questions in before the inevitable bloody showdown
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Glen Schofield, CEO of Striking Distance Studios and game director of The Callisto Protocol
ith Resident Evil enjoying a new golden age and the planned return of a number of much-loved franchises, it’s
a fantastic time to be a fan of horror games. This is especially true if sci-fi jumpscares are more your thing (full disclosure: they very much are). Not only is a remake of Dead Space set for release early next year (ten years after the last game in the series disappointed), it will be preceded at the end of this one by The Callisto Protocol, a spiritual successor to the dismemberment classic, headed up by none other than Mr. Dead Space himself, Glen Schofield. Leaving Visceral before the Dead Space sequels
appeared (though he would have overseen the excellent Dead Space: Extraction, a rail shooter for the Nintendo Wii), Schofield went on to found Sledgehammer Games, famous now of course for being part of the triad responsible for the Call of Duty series, but which was initially set up in the
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hope of creating a third-person action spin-off to the franchise. After co-directing three Call of Duty titles,
Schofield left to join PUBG Studios and helm Striking Distance, pitching The Callisto Protocol initially as a means to expand the Player Unknown’s Battlegrounds universe, only for the game to take on a life and establish a universe of its own. We caught up with the Striking Distance CEO to see how that life has evolved, and to ask how it feels to be going up against another series that he helped create.
Two years ago we were told that The Callisto Protocol was perhaps going to be the scariest game on PS5/Xbox. Given how the Resident Evil games have asserted themselves since, how confident are you of out-scaring them? No one sets out to make the fourth or fifth scariest
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