Star Wars™: Dark Forces Remaster has been brought to life by the team at Nightdive Studios, fully remastered through its proprietary KEX engine, allowing the game to run on modern gaming devices at up to 4K resolution at 120FPS. New and returning players will enjoy Star Wars: Dark Forces Re...
Star Wars™: Dark Forces Remaster has been brought to life by the team at Nightdive Studios, fully remastered through its proprietary KEX engine, allowing the game to run on modern gaming devices at up to 4K resolution at 120FPS. New and returning players will enjoy Star Wars: Dark Forces Remaster’s upgraded gameplay, high-resolution textures, enhanced lighting and rendering, and support for gamepads.
The original 1995 Star Wars: Dark Forces raised the bar for FPS games, offering players a significant degree of movement and interactivity, a large selection of items and power-ups, and engaging environments.
In the first Star Wars FPS video game, players assume the role of Kyle Katarn, a defector of the Galactic Empire turned mercenary for hire. Katarn joins the Rebel Alliance’s covert operations division tasked with infiltrating the Galactic Empire, where he discovers the secret Dark Trooper Project. The development of this powerful new series of Imperial battle droids and power-armored stormtroopers stands to strengthen the Empire’s grip on the galaxy unless Katarn and the Rebel Alliance intervene.
Key Features:
All fourteen original levels, featuring Star Wars™ worlds and capital ships
Use your ability to jump, duck, and crawl to solve puzzles and defeat enemies
Your Personal Digital Assistant provides you with in game information such including map, inventory, and mission briefing
Engaging first-person ground combat featuring ten weapons and twenty types of enemies
Up to 4K 120FPS visuals
Advanced 3D rendering enables updated lighting and atmospheric effects
Modern gamepad support adds a new weapon wheel, and rumble
Controller Support - vibration and gyro controls
A variety of power-ups are made available to the player, including health, shields, weapons and ammunition
For combat, the player may use fists, explosive landmines and thermal detonators, as well as blasters and other ranged weapons
Includes immersive environmental puzzles and mazes
There are fan mods for Dark Forces that look as if not more impressive available for free (DarkXL for example). I'm more than happy to buy Dark Forces again if it's remastered, but this price is an absolute joke. I'll wait until this is on sale for a reasonable price.
No free save in the missions where we have that with the original game plus mod? Make something like that as an add-on or trophy for playthroughs for people with time and label it as extremely difficult or something that makes it look cool. Hardly anyone needs the game that way.
Like everyone else who saw the price, this remaster will flop hard. 20$ is the highest it should be without any discount. You'd easily sell more copies if the price was reasonable. Sometimes it is best to lose a bit of revenue in order to make your product reach as many people as possible. This is not rocket science. It is basic marketing 101. Then after a longterm sale, you jack the prices back up but instead of 20$, you charge 25$. I'd be more than happy to work for the GoG marketing team just so I could bring my expertise to a gaming platform dedicated to preservation
Firstly, i bought the original in 1995 and still play it every now and then using dosbox. Love the masterpiece of its time that it was, back then. (with all the flaws it had, judging both now and then - i game saves, anyone?)
Secondly, i was eager to see the remastered, considered buying it
Third, i haven't bought the remastered. And at this stage, i wont. feels like the dev (and gog) are withholding info: All Screenshots are from cztscenes, NONE from actual gameplay. Usually, gog supplier a good choice of Screenshots, so NOT doing it here stands out, in a way. Do the actual in game Graphics suck? Is there no i game Graphics at all, yet (i. E. Is dark forces remastered in a playable Status at all? I cant tell. Don't help, that the Video - which may or may not Show gameplay - isnt playing for what ever reason, at least for me).
Also, looking at the cutscene Screenshots, i dont really see a difference, aside from having been upscaled and mushified. Frankly, if thats what the in game remasteringus, too, asking 40€ is quite steep.
Provider Screenshots that Change my mind, and i will reconsider, but like this, it smells like, well, something gog doesn't do: a ripoff.