The Callisto Protocol could have been a lot better than it is. In the absence of Dead Space and other games like it over the past decade, The Callisto Protocol is releasing here at the end of 2022 to give a shot in the arm to the survival-horror genre. And while Callisto largely hits all of the basic benchmarks that you’d expect from a game of this type, it doesn’t do anything special to make it a memorable experience.
Much like the Dead Space series which The Callisto Protocol director Glen Schofield helped establish back in 2008, The Callisto Protocol is a sci-fi horror game that takes players to the titular moon on Callisto. It’s here that the central protagonist Jacob Lee (portrayed by Josh Duhamel) finds himself trapped within Black Iron Prison as it’s overrun with vicious, mysterious monsters. Through the aid of a number of other characters that Lee comes across, you’re…
