The original Unreal game sparked the Unreal Engine’s journey, and Nightdive Studios executives said the team wanted to bring back the classic 1998 FPS title.
Love it or hate it, there’s no denying that now seems like a good era to remake and remaster. This may be a trend, but there’s no doubting the fact that with modern tools, it’s possible to bring beloved and forgotten titles into a new era, often with results. good results. With Capcom announcing a Resident Evil 4 remake, this trend isn’t going away anytime soon, and it looks like an indie studio is interested in reviving another classic, Epic Games’ Unreal.
Recently, Nightdive Studios CEO Stephen Kick took to Twitter to say that, after the success of last year’s Quake remake seemed to go nowhere, the team reached out to Epic executive Tim Tim. Sweeney was hoping to do something similar to the original Unreal game, released in 1998. Kick didn’t say specifically whether it would be a remaster or a full remake, but in any case , it’s clear that the developer wants to bring Unreal back into the game. The tweet encourages those interested in seeing old FPS also to get back in touch with Sweeney.
Unreal is one of those forgotten games that deserves a remake. It was the first game built using the Unreal Engine, which has become one of the most powerful development engines in the world. Nowadays, many people might not even think of Engine’s name with the name of the game that started it all. Although the final installment in the franchise, Unreal Tournament 2014, was released a few years ago, it didn’t have much action, with games focusing more on multiplayer shooters. The previous final installment was 2007’s Unreal Tournament 3 and many people now tend to associate the name with the popular engine rather than the game itself.
However, witnessing the Unreal revival could excite fans of the original. Given that Nightdive Studios is working on a System Shock remake and also working on a remake of the aforementioned original Quake, it’s clear that the developer has aspirations to bring classic games into the modern era.
At the moment, there’s no word on whether such a remake will actually happen, but Nightdive is trying to at least achieve it. Given that Unreal Engine 5 launched not too long ago, to see Unreal return using the latest version of the software would be interesting. It certainly shows how far gaming technology has come since the early days of the Epic Games engine.
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