Descent-like hoverbike FPS Forsaken rides once more at this time, remastered by Nightdive. A captivating relic from an period of over-filtered textures and lurid colored lighting, Forsaken Remastered takes the ‘6 degrees of freedom’ idea and makes it sooner, louder and dumber. Fun, too, particularly in its many messy multiplayer modes. While most of Nightdive’s remasters have been as genuine to the supply materials as doable, this one breaks from the norm, combining the remarkably totally different PC and N64 variations of the sport right into a single gestalt complete.
Having performed each variations of the sport again within the 90s, the choice to sew collectively Probe’s unique PC Forsaken and Iguana’s (they of the Turok collection) N64 version is a daring one. While the 2 video games shared a lot of their core techniques and artwork, they have been two very totally different experiences in observe. The N64 ranges tended to be shorter, sooner, extra arcade-styled, and sometimes capped off with solely new boss battles. I’m desperate to see simply how nicely the 2 halves have been built-in on this new model.
Forsaken Remastered is the work of porting powerhouse Samuel ‘Kaiser’ Villarreal, who had beforehand ported the Turok video games and Strife for Nightdive, in addition to Doom 64, only for enjoyable. I’m personally hoping that his subsequent undertaking is a return to Powerslave/Exhumed, one other FPS remembered semi-fondly on PC. It was a radically totally different, virtually Metroid Prime-esque expertise on consoles, as coated in this excellent DigitalFoundry video. Most of his work on porting the PSX model to PC is finished, however licensing points prevented an official launch beneath Nightdive’s banner.
On a tangential word, Forsaken Remastered isn’t Nightdive’s solely launch at this time. While it launched on GOG on the 21st, those that favor DRM on their older video games can now choose up Zono’s (underrated, for my part) stompybot RTS Metal Fatigue by way of Steam.
Forsaken Remastered is out now on Steam and GOG for £13.94/€15.11/$18, whereas Metal Fatigue might be discovered on Steam and GOG for £4.31/€4.49/$5.39.
