XIII Remake: Hands-off - Gamescom 2019


    In a panorama full of new announcements and sequels too discounted, some present right here on the stage of Gamescom 2019, is a remake like that of XIII to have the potential to surprise us with a subtle balance between tradition and novelty.

    Born in 2014 in Malta, PlayMagic Ltd is made up of 30 guys with years of experience on console and PC titles such as Halo, Call of Duty, Crysis and Hunt: Showdown, but also VR games like The Climb and Robinson. Given the résumé, there is no particular concern at the news that they will take care of the remake of the beloved XIII, the cel-shaded graphic style FPS of 2003.



    With a release date set for November 13 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, PC and Mac, XIII Remake definitely wants to win back the hearts of those who loved the original title at the time.: transposition of the first 5 volumes of the comic of the same name, XIII had managed to charm with a story in perfect balance between a strong narrative grip, a solid gameplay in execution and design, and a truly distinctive stylistic identity (iv) o.

    XIII Remake: Hands-off - Gamescom 2019

    At Gamescom 2019 we were able to talk about it with François Coulon, production head of Microids.

    We decided to revisit XIII as an FPS with a strong narrative component, a type of game that honestly seems absent from the modern market. We want to bring this little masterpiece back to the modern public as well, improved as best as possible but without altering its nature too much.

    It is clear right away, the team's work could have been the simplest of all with a trivial update of graphics and animations, but Microids has pushed the finish line much further; modernized graphics but with the look and feel of the original title, the team doesn't want to settle for anything less.



    Unfortunately, the Microids booth at Gamescom 2019 could not offer us anything other than a concept video, created specifically to explain what is the ideal goal of the development team and make a summary on the progress of the work. The commitment put into the realization of this remake is evident, but we must confess that what is actually visible is very little, sprouts of a plant that still needs to be taken care of.


    XIII Remake: Hands-off - Gamescom 2019

    If on the one hand environments and fluidity are a full center compared to the original game, returning volume and “reality” to the backgrounds, everything else is an all too perceptible work-in-progress; from the movements of the enemies to their intelligence for the most part unworthy of being even vaguely called such; from the woody or absent animations, to the approximation of the comic frames that sometimes populate the screen.


    XIII is a product in which Microids strongly believes, now we just have the hope that it can reach the release date without too many hitches.

    ► XIII Remake is a Shooter type game developed by PlayMagic Ltd and published by Microids for Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, the video game was released on 13/11/2019

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