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Very few of Sega’s classic franchises get an update these days, with the exception of the annual outings of Sonic the Hedgehog, which is why many scramble to but the best retro consoles.
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Publisher Sega Developer Sega Platform TBC Players TBC Sega has plans to launch full remakes of its classic games, and Crazy Taxi is my pick of the teased releases. Given what a graphical triumph Remedy’s Alan Wake 2 was on its release last year, it’s likely that this one will be something of a stunner. But we do know that both of the first two games will be released together as one title, and that they’re being developed using Remedy’s impressive in-house Northlight engine. The deal was announced in 2022, and it appears development is still at a very early stage. This remake of the first two games in the series was greenlit after Remedy reached an agreement with Rockstar Games, who created Max Payne 3 and whose parent company Take-Two Interactive purchased the rights to the Max Payne IP many moons ago.
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The first game from 2001 came out not long after The Matrix had appeared in cinemas, when ‘bullet time’ was very much part of the zeitgeist, and being able to pull off Neo-style balletic gunplay in the comfort of your own home was a thrill like no other. Publisher Rockstar Games Developer Remedy Entertainment Platform PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S Players TBCīefore the debut of Alan Wake and Control, Remedy Entertainment was most well known for the Max Payne series, which saw the titular hard-boiled detective gunning down various ne’er-do-wells in slow motion. Remedy's Northlight engine is one of the best dev tools around so Max Payne 3 (old screen here) will look beautiful. More importantly, it had a cracking good story, centring around the mercenary Kyle Katarn, who discovers the Empire’s Dark Troopers project while on a mission for the Rebel Alliance. For example, it introduced the ability to look up and down, which is something we take for granted in first-person shooters, but which was an excitingly novel concept at the time. Star Wars: Dark Forces was originally released for PC in 1995, just a couple of years after id Software’s genre-defining Doom had caused an explosion of interest in first-person shooters, thus prompting a deluge of copycat first-person shooter games from other studios.ĭark Forces stood out from the crowd, partly because of its technical advances. Given the studio’s pedigree, my hopes are high that this Dark Forces remaster will deliver.
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Nightdive Studios was behind the excellent System Shock remake from 2023, and the developer has also launched a number of well-received remasters in recent years, including Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition, Quake II and the first three Turok games. Due for release on 28th February 2024, the remaster of Star Wars: Dark Forces by Atari-owned Nightdive Studios may well be out by the time you read this.