The Callisto Protocol is easily reduced to what it borrows from Dead Space – it’s a spiritual sequel, after all, helmed by Dead Space co-creator Glen Schofield – so let’s start by looking at the game in a vacuum. It’s the tale of Jacob Lee, a vanilla action hero with big biceps and the obligatory buzz cut, played by Transformers movie actor Josh Duhamel. As the story begins, he’s delivering medical supplies to the infamous Black Iron prison on one of Jupiter’s more hospitable moons when his ship is boarded by alleged terrorists, including Karen Fukuhara’s vengeance-driven freedom fighter Dani Nakamura.
After his ship crash-lands on Callisto, Lee is immediately incarcerated, only to be sprung from his cell moments later during an epidemic of monstrous viral mutations. In the process, the game washes its hands of all but the broadest and most stereotypical elements of
