Love it or hate it, it cannot be denied that now seems like a good era for remakes and remasters. It may be something of a trend, but there's no arguing with the fact that, with modern engines, it's possible to bring beloved and forgotten titles into the modern era, often with good results. With Capcom announcing a remake of Resident Evil 4, this trend is not going away any time soon, and it looks as though an indie studio is interested in reviving another classic, namely Epic Games' Unreal.Recently, Stephen Kick, the CEO of Nightdive Studios took to Twitter to say that, after the success of last year's Quake remaster that seemed to come out of nowhere, the team has reached out to Epic's CEO, Tim Sweeney, in the hopes of doing something similar to the original Unreal game, which came out in 1998. Kick doesn't specifically say 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 gaming limelight. The tweet encourages others who are interested in seeing the old FPS come back to contact Sweeney as well.Unreal is one of those forgotten games that deserves a remake. It was the first game to be built using the Unreal Engine, which has become one of the most powerful development tools in the world. These days, many may not even associate the engine's name with the title of the game that started it all. While the last entry in the franchise, Unreal Tournament 2014, was released a few years ago, it hasn't seen a lot of action, with the games veering more towards multiplayer arena shooters. The last entry before that was 2007's Unreal Tournament 3, and many people now tend to associate the name with the ubiquitous engine rather than the games.
However, seeing a revival of Unreal could prove exciting for fans of the original. Given that Nightdive Studios is working on a remake of System Shock and also made the aforementioned remaster of the original Quake, it's clear that the developer has aspirations of bringing retro games into the modern era.
Currently, there's no word about whether such a remake will actually be happening, but Nightdive is attempting to at least get the ball rolling. Given that Unreal Engine 5 came out not long ago, to see a return of Unreal using the latest iteration of the software would be interesting. It would certainly show just how far gaming technology has come since those early days of Epic Games' engine.
Source: PCGamesN