It keeps everythinh good about the original intact (along with some of its issues) while fixing the controls and improving the graphics. It's Croc, but better. Would I recommend it over modern (even indie) 3D platformers? Probably not, but then again I don't think that's the intended market. I had fun reliving one of my favorite childhood games, and was able to get to 100% save completion in 9 hours. I only got 50% of the achievements, I assume you get the rest for reaching secret areas, but the achievements don't have descriptions and I've gained imployement since the days I was playing the original, so I'm not looking for them. You can't rebind the controls, which is a major oversight, and the remastered version is a whopping 31GB. I see no reason for this to be the case, so I assume they either forgot to compress the textures or used an obscene amount of subdivision on the remastered meshes. As far as the remastered graphics go I don't think they're that much better. Croc's model certainly looks better, but his arms are still made up of individual, segmented parts, probably to avoid having to implement new animations. I prefer the original textures, and luckily the game lets you use them in combination with the new lighing system, which looks better. They also have CRT and VGA filters you can enable, which is cute, even if they hurt my eyes.
It keeps everything good about the original intact (along with some of the issues) while fixing the controls and improving the graphics. It's Croc, but better. I had a fun time reliving one of my favorite games as a kid and was able to complete it 100% save completion in 9 hours, although with only about 50% of the achievements.
Not very original but well executed. The story isn't engaging (like, at all), but that's not what people look for in these games anyway. Despite the low poly models and low res textures, its timeless cartoony artstyle is still nice to look at. It draws from games like God of War, Zelda and Devil May Cry and succeeds in doing so. It would be a 4 for me if it didn't didn't make me feel like they were trying to pad out the play time so often. I originally bought it on the Xbox 360 precisely because of the play time to price ratio though, so I can't blame them either.
