Laptop Artworks’ 2002 videogame adaptation of 1982 film The Factor was a ghoulish and gripping third-person shooter with some terrific mechanics that weren’t fairly fleshed out, flesh being the operative phrase. For example: you’ll be able to enlist surviving troopers as squadmates, however are they actually surviving troopers, or are they human-shaped warrens of enamel and mandibles poised to separate open and bathe you in digestive juices? You’ve got a restricted provide of blood assessments with which to find out whether or not any individuals you rescue are Issues in ready – and at the same time as you are worrying about them, they’re casting suspicious eyes at you, care of some embryonic “belief” and “worry” methods.
Sadly, a lot of this acute paranoia could possibly be simply gamed out in follow – again in 2002, I deduced that contact with enemies elevated the percentages of an infection, and adopted a coverage of capturing anybody who’d been in my squad for too lengthy. However it’s the form of system an clever remake may pounce upon and have enjoyable with. Sadly, Nightdive are usually not engaged on a remake, like their earlier System Shock remakes. They’ve simply introduced that they are making a remaster, due later this 12 months. Nonetheless, I’ll take a Factor remaster and thus, the chance to write down extra about The Factor, over no remaster in any respect.
Introduced throughout right now’s Summer season Recreation Festivities, the remaster encompasses a bunch of visible enhancements however nonetheless very a lot appears to be like like a recreation from the early noughties. Here is a squirming gobbet of announcement launch to level your flamethrower at:
The Factor: Remastered is a devoted restoration of the cult-classic 2002 third-person survival horror shooter recreation impressed by Common Footage and filmmaker John Carpenter’s genre-defining 1982 movie, The Factor. Nightdive Studios has upgraded this horrifying traditional for the trendy period by means of its proprietary KEX Engine for play on current-generation gaming units as much as a 4K decision at 120FPS. Enhancements to character fashions, textures, and animations have been hand-crafted by Nightdive Studios, with the implementation of superior 3D rendering for up to date lighting and atmospheric effects–for a suspenseful and disgustingly detailed remaster that reanimates the thrilling recreation for contemporary audiences.
Nightdive have beforehand used their fancy Kex tech to overtake Darkish Forces, Doom 64, Quake II and the improved version of System Shock. You possibly can learn extra about their latest doings – together with what it is like being acquired by the latter-day incarnation of Atari, who would not have nice type for taking care of older videogame collection – in Rick Lane’s Xmas 2023 interview with the studio heads.
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