Back during the early days of the PS3 and Xbox 360 console generation, the lack of backward compatibility became an issue. Gamers were unable to play their favorite games from the last generation on their shiny new consoles. This was a feature that turned out to be too big to solve in this generation but instead led to the rise of the HD remake.
A HD remake is a game that has been remade to take advantage of the high definition visuals that come with most modern game consoles. Due to the massive popularity of this, game publishers have continued to release older games on the new generations of consoles. The difference between a remake, remaster and a reboot can get confusing since they tend to be used for the same thing. A HD remake is generally a new build from the ground up rather than upgrading resolution from a past generation game.
Featuring a fully 3-D living city, a combination of narrative driven and non-linear gameplay and a completely open environment, Grand Theft Auto III represents a huge leap forward in interactive entertainment. For the first time, players are put at the heart of their very own gangster movie, and let loose in a fully-realised 3 dimensional city, in which anything can happen and probably will. With a cast of hundreds, 50…
A third person shooter/stealth/survival hybrid, in which twenty years after the outbreak of a parasitic fungus which takes over the neural functions of humans, Joel, a Texan with a tragic familial past, finds himself responsible with smuggling a fourteen year old girl named Ellie to a militia group called the Fireflies, while avoiding strict and deadly authorities, infected fungal hosts and other violent survivors.
Skyrim reimagines and revolutionizes the open-world fantasy epic, bringing to life a complete virtual world open for you to explore any way you choose. Play any type of character you can imagine, and do whatever you want; the legendary freedom of choice, storytelling, and adventure of The Elder Scrolls is realized like never before.
Spyro the Dragon is a platform game developed by Insomniac Games for the PlayStation. It stars the title character, a young purple dragon named Spyro and his dragonfly friend, Sparx, and is the first game in the Spyro the Dragon series. The first game was massively popular at its initial release and Spyro would later become one of the most recognizable, popular and respected gaming icons for the PlayStation gaming…
Age of Empires (AoE) is a history-based real-time strategy video game developed by Ensemble Studios and published by Microsoft. The game uses the Genie, a 2D sprite-based game engine. The game allows the user to act as the leader of an ancient civilization by advancing it through four ages (the Stone, Tool, Bronze, and Iron Ages), gaining access to new and improved units with each advance.
For quite a lot of people, myself included, Fallout 3 was the first adventure into the games universe. Hardcore fans of the original games might think it is an abomination, but the game did pretty well and I absolutely loved...
Over the past few years, we have been seeing a lot of games re-released on modern systems. There are various reasons this is done and even more reasons why it is proving to be a success. When it comes to...
In video game years, the original Age of Empires game which was released in 1997, is pretty much a dinosaur. I have vague memories of playing it as a kid, but by the time I had seriously got into gaming,...
It feels like forever since I played the Spyro games on the Playstation 1. I can remember spending a lot of time playing the games over and over when I was younger. I can remember playing one of the later...
Amongst all of the exciting news from E3 this year came news that Bethesda would be releasing a HD remake of Skyrim on the PS4 and Xbox One. This game would come with high res textures and mod support. While...
After the massive success of GTA 5, most of us have been wondering, what is next for Rockstar. Well it seems as though they may have made their way back to the wild west as rumor has it that they...
HD remakes have become increasingly popular over the past few years. Developers have been remastering popular PS2/Xbox games and releasing them on the modern consoles. Overall this has been quite successful. Grim fandango is one of the first games to...
Ever since the PS3/Xbox360 generation of games consoles gamers have been unable to play games from the previous generation on their shiny new consoles. This trend has also continued on to the current PS4/XboxOne generation of consoles. While I personally...
Grand Theft Auto games from the PS2 / Xbox have unfortunately never gotten HD remakes so we cant enjoy them in High Definition just yet but thanks to modders we are able to get an idea of what they might...
