The Callisto Protocol PS5 Review – Is It Any Good?

Sorry but this game is 6/7-10 max
It’s not particularly long
Not scary or jumpy
There’s no mapping
The cut scenes cannot be skipped and the team struggled to get away from Dead space
The graphics are wonderful
You will die on every level

Really robust combat system? This combat couldn't be more rudimentary. Press left or right, doesn't matter which, to dodge an attack, then alternate directions for each following attack. There's no timing window, just hold a direction in anticipation for the next attack. Once the enemy's combo is over, it's your turn. Rinse and repeat. The mini-bosses won't even touch you(of which there's only 1…that you fight 4 times). There's no quickstep or lock-on, so once the game starts throwing multiple enemies at you, that's when the combat system really breaks down. It's a bit of a blackeye that this game's main gameplay feature, its melee combat, was done better in TLOU2, a game that didn't tout its melee combat.

There's really nothing going for this game other than visuals and atmosphere, which are admittedly top-tier. The gameplay, level design, story, and characters, are as basic as it gets. The campaign is short and there's no multiplayer. This game offers even less than The Order: 1886 did, which got trashed when it released for being so bereft of content. I finished this game on medium security in about 11 hours and while I found the game to be lackluster, its presentation is so good that I stuck it out. 6/10

This game is garbage, its a poor man's Dead space with terrible forced melee combat.

I don't know, I find the use of specific actors' likeness in game to be kind of distracting. Games give the opportunity to make up brand new characters.

If they'd taken this cake out of the oven in 3-6 months giving it the time it needed, likely it would have been received better. As it stands: they've purposely screwed the PC community, and released an unpolished product to the consoles – a slimy choice, that earns you no good will…

PLAY IT ON easy THANK ME LATER 💾

Game is amazing aside from getting a little clunky when fighting. Buy it and enjoy it!!

game only has performance issues otherwise its a good game once those issues are sorted out EA definitely paid ign and game spot to review bomb this game

Thanks for the honest review !
i'm shocked by the graphics : it "feels" blurry …. Do they already push too far the PS5 ?
And to learn about the frame drop…. Why on earth do they deliver unfinished games, every time ?? I'll wait for this game in the bargain bin…… after tons of patches… pathetic ….

It’s a very good game just a lot of people are experiencing stuttering issues. On all platforms

Both my controllers have such bad drift on the left stick that this game is unplayable with the dodging system. Waiting for a new controller haha. I died to the first enemy like 12 times last night before I gave up

What another over hyped game that cost millions and took years to make turns out to be shit this is unheard of 🤣🤣🤣🤣

I'll wait for the Dead Space remake.

Looks okay, but not going to play it until it's in gamepass. This is how we can teach developers to tell sony to F off with their anti-gamepass bribe money by just refusing to play their mediocre game until it's in gamepass. It's a one and done 6 hour game, so no loss.

I wonder if ea decided to make the remake as a revenge for this team, especially thinking how close they'll publish

Good game. Brings back that Dead Space feeling. Stunning visuals with performance issues (stutter) but hopefully they'll patch them out.
People complain about "been there, done that". How about COD same stuff every year. Some installments are great, but some are so so.
Have fun with the game and just enjoy the ride.

I will never buy a game day one after what battlefield 2042 did. But a lot of gamers still don't learn and keep buying into the hype of new games and then you get this. No reviews came up until after the release, that's a bad sign.

Is your only criticism that Callisto is inspired or similar to Dead Space?

I went with the statue big boy edition. The frame rate drops are annoying but it should get patched out. Question where is that 10 fps drop? If it's early I'll wait till a patch happens to play it. If it's later in game, I'll start but move slower through the game.

Fair review. I've been playing the game since Wednesday and I agree. Callisto protocol looks incredible, sound design is top notch but these were expected. It's not scary at all in my opinion. Very predictable and the musical ques/sound FX only give it away or make it more obvious as opposed to building tension.

Combat is ok and can be fun but once you get used to it, it also becomes boring and repetitive very quickly.

The gameplay in this really doesn't feel like Dead Space AT ALL, the dodging and melee is polar opposite of keeping your distance from enemies in DS

Well Glenn made dead space so I figured there would be some similarities