While the remake of the first game a little over 2 years ago was a surprise, that of the second was more predictable with such success.
Black Forest Games is once again at the controls of the invading Furon's ship, ready to come and clone Cryptosporidium-138 again to sow chaos on Earth during the hippie wave.
In this opus, nothing drastically different from the remake of 1. We find a Crypto in top form, loaded with more or less crazy skills and weapons that will be unlocked as you progress. Only the time and the environments will disorient those who approached the first. The technical side is successful, even if there are still a few things related to the fact that the game wants to be as close as possible to the original, which makes it a bit outdated.
Take cities for example. They look big like that, but actually covering the distance between each end is done very quickly.
We are far from current open world games. But is it the fault of this reissue?
No. The fault comes from the technical limitations of the initial generation of machines on which the game was released.
Suddenly, we will pass the towel and will avoid in this very specific case to cut him a suit on this aspect.
As it's a remake and the developers wanted to redo it faithfully, we're only going to judge this remake on the technical aspects. That is to say graphics, animations, handling and gameplay, as well as sound quality.
Visually, the game imposes itself by combining the quality that we are entitled to expect in 2022 with the style of the original for a successful result very Seventies.
The same goes with the grip that offers to control Crypto, multi-tasking, with indecent ease.
Admittedly, you have to take a bit of a hand so as not to get the buttons tangled up, but once the basic learning has been done, in the Simone ship!
Crypto can still climb whenever he pleases into his ship and move on to mass carnage. Or stay on your feet at will and plumb the depths of humans both mentally and physically.
The remake as such is of quality and Black Forest Games deserves compliments filled with superlatives to praise their technical work. However, this contrasts radically with the initial game which made it redundant with 3D models. And since the developers have chosen to stay true to the original, we end up with a sort of quality technical quirk but which could have been more varied. In fact, there's not much more to add about the game that hasn't already been said about the previous one. The remake is quality, but the base game was B-series.
We have here a very nice game whose delirium is the fun before the rest and which received a new body of excellent quality. Can't wait for the next remakes, because we're going to enter the open world a little more seriously!
- Xbox Series X (tested version)
- PlayStation 5
- Steam
