Oh wow, they made the 2000 video game look like a 2006 video game!
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I came in hyped, thinking this was going to be another Nightdive remaster
Then the trailer was ugly as all get out
And that’s when I noticed… Aspyr. Ew.
I was hyped as hell when I saw this, only for the comments to skewer it before I even had a chance to see the video. I'll remain cautiously optimistic this will shock the company into stepping up their efforts to do this classic the dignity it deserves.
It's a shame because their original Tomb Raider trilogy remaster was really good.
Urgh.
The remake looks shit, stop rehashing things lazily in a poor attempt to cash in.
Part of the magic of these games is because the graphics aren't that great and, the story and gameplay make up for it.
Like the first half life por examplo
I honestly think they made it look worse than the original.
Which is saying something.
Unreal 1 games are consistently fugly in ways that are difficult to place. Their design can be great - but the rendering, bluh. There's just enough specularity and fake reflections to remind you most textures are chalk-flat. Detail noise improves big blurry texels, but your brain feels that band-gap between high and low frequency. Character animation, especially faces, feel very... Hanna-Barbara. There's just enough physics for you to understand why Half-Life 2 blew people's dicks off.
Basically, the engine has all the idiosyncrasies of a 1990s console. You know at a glance. And this PS2-ass parody of a mid-2000s HD remaster manages to feel more dated.
There was more footage shown in the PS State of Play presentation and it looks… dire. Genuinely worse than the original game IMO.
Just look at this updated UNATCO notice board:

STRATIGIES
The whole thing smacks of exec-fuelled ‘just slap some new textures on it and ship it’ attitude.
Oh, so like a fan-made HD mod. Stretching Unreal 1 to its limits.
Pre order today
Oh.
That's a commercial remake.
Oof.
If you're on pc you're better off using the original and surreal 98 to play in UE 5 with modern textures lighting and vr support less than $20
This looks like it's the exact same game untouched except that the textures have been AI upscaled or something.
Like holy shit, look at Paul he looks so dogshit compared to the original

This reminds me of the San Andreas remaster, where they unintentionally made the nut of a bolt into a circle, because they just let some program smooth out all the polygons.
Nope.... The original game still works well.... There is no need for this.... And I don't trust who is making this
How do you make Deus Ex The Invisible War look good?
Have Aspyr remaster Deus Ex.
Can't wait to see LRG try to sell a $150 boxed copy of this with no CD in it.
Doesn't look impressive.
I am assuming adding console support will require some changes to the game (I for one like the "janky" combat and dislike overly polished modern combat styles).
minimum specs are low, so I would guess they have a toggle for original graphics
Minimum:
Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS: Windows 10+
Processor: Intel i3 / AMD FX-4100
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: GeForce GT 620 1gb / Radeon HD 8670D
Storage: 20 GB available space
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