Nightdive Studios has made it a behavior out of remastering cult traditional shooters, and it’s set to launch one other a kind of later this yr with an enhanced re-release of developer Pc Artworks’ 2002 cult traditional horror shooter The Factor. And although The Factor: Remastered is just not, as its title suggests, going to be a full-blown remake, Nightdive says you’ll be able to nonetheless count on it to be a big enhancement.
The truth is, talking just lately with GamesRadar, Nightdive Studios’ enterprise growth director Larry Kuperman stated that The Factor: Remastered will “fulfill” the “authentic imaginative and prescient” of Pc Artworks, the studio behind the unique recreation, owing to the truth that it gained’t be restricted by the technological constrants that the unique was.
“[Computer Artworks was] actually, actually fairly comfortable, and justifiably so, with the sport that they produced, however they have been additionally conscious of limitations, of issues that they may not do just because the know-how, the sport engine, didn’t help it,” Kuperman stated. “And, with out going into an excessive amount of element, with out offering any spoilers, there are some issues that, we have been capable of fulfill the unique imaginative and prescient of the builders. That’s one thing that’s actually necessary to us.”
Kuperman went on so as to add that although The Factor: Remastered will function loads of gameplay enhancements, it should in the end additionally play the way in which you bear in mind the unique enjoying. “It’ll play the way in which you bear in mind the unique recreation enjoying, however that wasn’t the way in which it truly performed,” he stated.
The Factor: Remastered is due out someday later this yr for PS5, Xbox Sequence X/S, PS4, Xbox One, Nintendo Change, and PC.
