Inevitably, and perhaps by design, the Dead Space remake has drawn comparisons to the RE2 remake.
In January, the Dead Space remake, developed by Motive and published by EA, was released to much the same response as RE2 remake back in January 2019 – that is to say, something close to ‘universal acclaim,’ in the parlance of Metacritic. These releases created an interesting template for remakes to follow.ĭemon’s Souls (2020) was a ‘cleaned up’ version of the original, replacing it with a new visual style and more recently, Metroid Prime Remastered took a similar approach. A week later, Square Enix released Final Fantasy VII Remake, their self-conscious, full-scale redux of the original Final Fantasy VII, which actively engages with the concept of what a video game remake even is (something that Kirk Hamilton has facetiously classified as a ‘Super Turbo Remake Plus’.) Image: Capcomĭid Capcom kick off a ‘golden age’ of video game remakes? In April 2020, they followed up with their Resident Evil 3 remake, which continued this specific remake tradition (albeit to a far more muted reception). Idiosyncrasies woven into the original version – often seen in today’s light as hindrances or visible signs of age, desperately in need of remedy – are sculpted (or, perhaps, carved away) in the shape of a pristine third-person action game, a genre much more palatable to a contemporary general audience. These updated remakes take the core ideas of an original game, and fix them squarely within the contemporary Triple-A tradition. It began a new wave of (and appetite for) remakes, of games that reconstruct – or work in dialogue with – their original versions, in a different manner to the usual slate of high-definition ‘remasters’. The developers of the upcoming Silent Hill 2 remake have gestured to RE2 as a source of inspiration, for example. Capcom proved one model extremely successful in their impressively modernised remake of Resident Evil 2 in 2019, which has become both a catalyst and reference point for the horror remakes that follow it. In 2023, video game remakes are in vogue.
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