The remaster of the most important game in the entire franchise (apart from Part 1, of course) is the only previous-gen Call of Duty to have been put in a current-gen guise so far, but the result is impressive! It has gotten the graphics bells and whistles a game of this size deserves. Later this year it will also come to the Switch! Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered (2016)
They all run in Full HD and at 60 fps, and you want that.
Purists play it on the GameCube, but if that’s a bit too old school you can go to the Ultimate HD Edition on PC, and the almost identical Remastered version on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. And that is of course thanks to an excellent remaster.įor a game from 2005, Resi 4 is still surprisingly good, although you have to make sure you have the right version. We will talk about those remakes next month, but one game that does not need a remake for the time being is Resident Evil 4.
Whoever thought Bethesda was bad with their approximately 37 versions of Skyrim, doesn’t know Capcom yet! Just about every part in the Resident Evil series has its own selection of ports, remasters and remakes (and remasters of that too …). Resident Evil 4 Ultimate HD Edition (2014) + Remastered (2016) The darkest Zelda adventure of all has never looked so good and squeezes everything out of your (New) Nintendo 3DS with completely new assets and textures. At the beginning of 2015 (a particularly good remaster year) the time had finally come. The Wind Waker is my personal favorite Zelda from the list, but as long as it doesn’t appear on the Switch, the best remaster is really that part with that angry, scary moon.Īfter Ocarina of Time 3D appeared on the 3DS in 2011, fans had to wait far too long for Majora’s Mask to finally get an upgrade. Ocarina of Time, Majora’s Mask, The Wind Waker and Twilight Princess have all gotten a refreshed version, although the latter two are only for the Wii U for now, so we don’t have much use for that. Nintendo also has no problem with beautiful remasters. The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask 3D (2015) By the way, a remaster of the original Age of Empires has also been available since last year, including 4K support and a re-recorded soundtrack. What is genius is that three brand new single player campaigns have been made as DLC, with a whole bunch of new civilizations. It’s a very pure remaster, with really only support for modern screen resolutions. However, an RTS remaster of a completely different order has been playing since 2013: a true HD version of Age of Empires II: Age of Kings!Īge of Empires II HD is a project by Hidden Path Entertainment and Matt Pritchard, a programmer from the original team. For example, EA recently announced remasters of Command & Conquer and Red Alert, we now have a StarCraft: Remastered and sometime this year we will be released in WarCraft 3: Reforged.
You can hardly ignore it, the real-time strategy genre is a bit dead.
For PS4 Pro support these remasters unfortunately came a little too early, but the boost mode of that console ensures that you never drop below 60fps. All three games have now also been upgraded to Full HD and no longer run at the ‘cinematic’ 30fps, but at a smooth 60. They have also done their best for The Nathan Drake Collection and it shows! Especially Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune, which had some rough edges when released in 2007, has improved enormously. They have previously tackled God of War and Metal Gear Solid. Because weren’t the original three Uncharted games included in this package beautiful enough? Well, according to Bluepoint Games really not! This developer is an absolute specialist in polishing old games and making them playable on new platforms. This is an example of a remaster that might have been unnecessary if the PlayStation 4 had been backwards compatible. Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection (2015) Here’s some of the best remastered games we’ve seen so far. Remasters can make old games much more accessible, so that everyone can play them without the hassle of having to deal with emulators or dusty old consoles. Lucrative business at a time when consoles are only very limited backwards compatible, but also just good for gamers. A concept that has come over from the music and film industry, where a game is re-released with improved graphics (and possibly improved sound) and remains faithful to the original. If your brain works a bit like mine, then you understand that we’re starting with the remaster. Not exactly objective or anything, but if all goes well a bit true. Since we are perhaps more than ever buying a lot of more or less remade titles, it is time for a clear overview of the best. To a large extent out of nostalgia, but also because everyone has missed a classic.
Hello and welcome to this new three-part serial about remasters, remakes and reboots, entitled One More Time! Sometimes it seems like we would rather play old, repetitive stuff than original, new games.