Update #2 []: Unfortunately, these of you in Europe ready for The Thing: Remastered to drop on the eShop, you may have to attend a little bit longer.
In a press launch, Nightdive Studio said “Due to unexpected circumstances, The Thing: Remastered will launch on the European Nintendo eShop later this month.”
Hopefully it will solely be a number of days, however hold an eye fixed out for extra bulletins. We’ll you should definitely let you realize when the sport is out in Europe.
Update #1 []: Well, would you take a look at that – The Thing: Remastered is out proper now!
Nightdive Studio’s newest remaster of the 2002 PS2, PC, and Xbox survival horror shooter is offered for USD $29.99 on the US eShop. We’ll replace you as quickly because the EU eShop web page goes dwell.
According to an interview revealed on Xbox Wire at this time, artwork lead Josh Welsh says that that is the “most formidable remaster to this point” for the studio, and that has us fairly excited.
Here’s a rundown of the sport from the eShop itemizing:
The 2002 third-person survival horror shooter that serves as a sequel to the genre-defining 1982 movie is again, remastered by Nightdive Studios to carry this progressive mix of quick paced squad motion meets survival horror to the trendy period. Including Antialiasing, Per Pixel Lighting, 4K Resolution and as much as 144 FPS.
Where the film ended, the true terror begins.
You are Cpt J.F. Blake, chief of a U.S. Special Forces rescue workforce despatched to research the blood-curdling occasions and enigmatic deaths of the American scientific workforce that transpired on the Outpost 31 analysis facility situated within the frozen wastelands of Antarctica. Within these inhospitable environment your workforce encounters a wierd shape-shifting alien life-form that assumes the looks of people who it kills. Trapped by the weather and contaminated by this horrific entity, utilizing all of your workforce members is vital should you hope to perform your goals, not to mention survive. If you solely knew which of them had been nonetheless human…
The Thing: Remastered Key Features:
• In 20 scary ranges, lead your workforce in opposition to terrifying monsters, from the scuttling head-spiders and human-like walkers to gigantic multi-tentacled beasts.
• Advanced belief/concern interface provides a brand new stage of interplay – How you affect your groups psychological state determines whether or not or not they’ll co-operate with you.
• Experience model new dynamic lighting, specular mapping, shadows, depth of area complemented by improved fashions, textures and environments to create a deep stage of immersion.
• Use superior firepower like machine weapons, explosives and flamethrowers to torch your enemies.
• Brand new Achievements.
• Quality of Life gameplay enhancements to enhance your expertise.
• Choose a number of paths to unravel issues that lie forward and attain targets.
Original Story: Nightdive Studios’ The Thing: Remastered has been sitting on a 2024 launch date for some time now, and whereas a publish from the developer yesterday confirmed that it’s going to positively be coming in December (it’s the final month of the yr, in any case), an Xbox Wire line-up may need given us an much more particular date (due to our friends at Pure Xbox for the heads up).
Titled ‘Next Week on Xbox: New Games for December 2 to six’, the Xbox Wire publish lists Nightdive’s remaster with a fifth December launch date for Microsoft’s newest consoles and Game Pass. Now, that is but to be confirmed by the developer and there is clearly no assure that the Switch model will arrive on the identical day, however this actually looks like an actual chance.
Quiet bulletins like this aren’t all that uncommon an incidence today, with releases break up between totally different platforms. So, whereas we’re barely shocked that we’ve not seen a “The Thing: Remastered involves consoles on fifth December” publish, there’s each probability {that a} not-so-shadowy shadow drop is deliberate for tomorrow.
That stated, we’re not about to utterly defrost our horror pleasure simply but — as we are saying, the Switch model would possibly not land on the identical day. But December is in full swing now, so there are solely so many days left earlier than we get to go hands-on with this one, all the identical.
Before that occurs, nevertheless, why not make amends for every part that has gone into the making of the sport? Earlier this yr, we sat down with some members of the Nightdive workforce to debate remasters, Switch efficiency and all issues horror. You can discover the total interview under.
