Trailer for the Remaster of the 1995 Game STAR WARS: DARK FORCES
The classic 1995 Star Wars video game, Star Wars: Dark Force, has been remastered and a trailer has been released showing off the updated game!
The fully remastered version of the classic action first-person shooter was developed by NightDive Studios, and players will assume the role of Kyle Katarn, a defector of the Galactic Empire turned mercenary for hire.
Long before the movie Rogue One, it was Kyle Katarn who originally stole the Death Star plans for the Rebel Alliance. He took on the entire Galactic Empire himself with just a blaster in hand.
Nightdive Studios’ Max Waine shared in a n interview with StarWars.com: “Kyle Katarn really can do just about everything, and while he's doing everything, he manages to generally stay very cool and calm. Stealing the plans for the Death Star? Yep. Defeating Boba Fett? Yep. Punching out kell dragons? Yep. He can do that. And that's just in Dark Forces.”
Star Wars: Dark Forces is now “fitted with a significant degree of movement and interactivity, a large selection of items and power-ups, and engaging environments to enjoy accompanied by 4K 120 FPS support, Trophy and Achievement support, and more.”
Wayne goes on to say: “Dark Forces is very interesting, especially if you come into it with a mindset of its contemporaries. The stuff it managed to do for the time, I wonder if it’ll be lost on people coming to it for the first time. You have proper room-over-room environments. You have, in a few special cases, fully 3D models, which is something that you wouldn't really see in regular standard first person shooters until Quake, which was a whole year and three months later. The technological feats are really impressive.”
When talking about the upgraded Gameplay he said: “With upgraded gameplay, enhanced lighting and texture rendering, and support for modern consoles, Nightdive Studios’ work to update the original game was extensive — but it’s not a remake.”
He explained: “We have the original source code to the game. We still have such a strong foundation in the original. [While] we have higher-res versions of things like the sprites, the textures, the cut scenes, all of the original stuff is still there as options… It is still very much the same game. We haven't made just about any alterations to the original levels, for instance, which is something that a remake probably would do.”
You can see the original version of the game with the new version in the trailer below! It looks great and It’ll be fun to revisit this game after all these years!
Star Wars: Dark Forces Remaster is available now for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series S|X, Nintendo Switch, and PC.