Today’s Summer Game Fest livestream gave fans another look at the upcoming game with the much gorier “Schofield Cut” of The Callisto Protocol’s Official Trailer. The new trailer offers some enticing teasers for the game’s plot and enough body horror to make its Dead Space pedigree abundantly clear.
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The Callisto Protocol’s new trailer opens with a shot of the player character Jacob arriving at the isolated prison on Jupiter’s moon Callisto. The narrator is quick to help set the mood, calling Callisto “the dead moon” and revealing that Jacob would have been dead too without the narrator’s intervention. However, it soon becomes clear that Jacob’s savior is anything but. Instead, he seems to be the mysterious antagonist responsible for unleashing alien mutations on the prison’s populace. The Callisto Protocol’s 2020 story trailer hinted that the prison’s very administrator might be the one responsible, though who knows what secrets players might uncover over the course of the game.
The trailer accompanies the voice-over with scenes depicting the assorted horrors in store for The Callisto Protocol’s unlucky hero. Figures stand frozen solid by Callisto’s brutal weather, and the next shot of the prison’s interior hints at the horrific experiments going on inside the facility. However, that’s the least of Jacob’s problems, as the trailer shows him fending off hordes of grotesque human-alien hybrids in The Callisto Protocol’s visceral close-quarters combat. The trailer pairs the sight of these twisted abominations with the antagonist’s promises of a new life, not unlike the villainous Unitologist Cult from the Dead Space series.
Compared to The Callisto Protocol’s State of Play trailer from last week, the Schofield Cut is very similar. It contains the same narration and many of the same scenes. However, it is decidedly bloodier, as Summer Game Fest host Geoff Keighley warned when introducing it. The most noticeable example comes at the end of the trailer when a mutant bites Jacob’s head clean in half. While the June 2 trailer cuts to black at this point, the new Schofield Cut leaves nothing to the imagination.
It will still be half a year before The Callisto Protocol arrives on PC and consoles, and only time will the if it lives up to the hype. However, if the latest trailers and gameplay reveals are any indication, Dead Space fans will want to keep their eyes on The Callisto Protocol.
The Callisto Protocol releases on December 2 for PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.
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