This underrated sci-fi game is a true successor to Dead Space’s UI

Experimental user interface design is defined. When the right thing is done, the UI of a game can not only play a key role in communicating the player’s important game mechanics, but can also get some deeper about the universe in which the player’s avatar is and how they see the world themselves.

One of its most memorable example is the Rig (“Resources Integration Gear”) system Dead spaceThe main character, Ishaq Clark’s inventory, arms and health meters localized in a sleek and compact interface, which appears through a small holographic projector on his back. Excellent, digest design takes the information that the player needs to know and directly included in the game universe, from Isaac’s Health Bar and ammunition counters tracking to the USG Ashimora to play audio logs and forecasts.

Unfortunately, since there have been not many games Dead spaceThe initial release in 2008, which has tried to copy the game approach for the Diagetic Interface. However, this is with a remarkable exception: 2017 Science Fi Stealth Harry Game Echo.

Developed by Danish Indy Studio Ultra Ultra, sports centers, a young woman, who have been riding an emotional starch in hypertension after a century. All we know is that Ann was shot before shooting in his stomach, and the artificial intelligence of the ship, London, has been angry with him for reasons that will not be too clear later.

We soon learn that Ann’s floor is a mysterious planet, which has a “palace” of unruly wonders, which includes the ability to resurrect the dead. Immediately after descending and discovering on the planet’s surface, it is in fact an eczemyopolysis, a super -mesi structure that has its own so -called palace, faces echoes: Artificial dupgulgers created by the palace are created to prevent themselves from gaining electricity. For success, EN will have to find a way to defeat these infinite, infinite blowing enemies that can copy it every move.

Echo One of my favorite sports all the time. Creative of Manufacturer Ultra Ultra Reuse assets, character models, and maps creates a sense of eerness and horror with skillsWhile, while Game Mechanics like chess There are pure beauty. The adornment of the game, the future aesthetic was also affected by it Alexander McKein and the Palace of Warsills. Hell, even EchoThere is a clear reference to the opening of the menu screen æon floox! I could talk to him and On About this game I like about all these things, but like Dead spaceIts dietary “hood spare” interface is particularly influenced.

Immediately after landing on the planet’s surface, Ann is given a space suit that has a color -coded radar -shaped interface equipped with “hood spare” that surrounds his body in a light blue color. The hood speaker acts as a player’s compass, and points to his next purpose as he crosses the passers -by, wrapping up this mostly palace structure.

This is the first time after the echoes, however, the full functionality of the hood spare comes at the forefront. As close to a resonance, the suit interface reacts to the proximity to a more potential risk. The blue frequency shining with the surface of the circle indicates the presence of another humanitarian entity. A yellow shining indicator indicates that the player is watching, while a red -fractal Shammer means that the player is being targeted by the attacker. When the EN is attacked, the HUD will have a immediately signal, which will release it. After avoiding the attack, the red spikes will appear inside the hood spare, which indicates that it is weak and will not escape any other attack until it disappears.

All of this is considered as part of the “Assist” mode of the suit in the universe, which whenever it jumps from height and prevents it from damaging its injuries, it also triggers its fall. One of my favorite elements of the hood spare, though, is its “area scan” functionality, which sends a pulse wave that expands the radius of the circle, and tags all your immediate echoes at the moment to blindly blind the dangers you can stop. It doesn’t matter how many times I use it, it always feels asleep and easily in the future.

And it is not mentioned that, after pulling its pistol to attack Ann, the hood spare radius will stand to become a gun retained without interruption. Even if you shake the retail on them for a long time, you can tag the enemies from afar. Almost every element of the game’s wider mechanics and system is reflected through the design of hood spare.

Finally, it is commenting on itself that the interface of the suit is technically “outdated” due to the century in the palace. I EchoThe creative team in Ultra Ultra occupied every opportunity at the sign of the game’s universe, which led to what it could be like in its specific vision of space firing civilization.

Combined with the game’s sound design, which reacts to the response to the rise in real time, you have found a system that looks and feels as cool as it is viable and intuitive. Overall, the internal Echo Feels like both reactions and evolution Dead spaceHave its own vein system.

Echo In every sense of the term there is a “dark horse”: beautiful, difficult to master, and an experience is completely its own. Unfortunately, it was the first and only game that had the opportunity to develop Ultra Ultra. The studio was forced to close in 2019 after poor sales of the game. He said, I recommend to experience it wholeheartedly that if you are looking for beautiful and unique, incomplete, science -fi stealth game with beautiful visual and music that stands on the test of time.

Echo Is available for purchase Steam And PlayStation Store.