{"id":761582,"date":"2025-11-27T17:28:55","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T17:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/game-of-the-week-star-wars-dark-forces-and-the-challenge-of-remasters?utm_source=feed&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=feed"},"modified":"2025-11-27T17:28:55","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T17:28:55","slug":"game-of-the-week-star-wars-dark-forces-and-the-challenge-of-remasters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/game-of-the-week-star-wars-dark-forces-and-the-challenge-of-remasters\/","title":{"rendered":"Game of the Week: Star Wars: Dark Forces and the challenge of remasters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/game-of-the-week-star-wars-dark-forces-and-the-challenge-of-remasters.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a lovely line in Rick Lane&#8217;s review of Star Wars: Dark Forces. Actually, the piece has no shortage of lovely lines, but one stood out for me in particular. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/star-wars-dark-forces-remaster-review-a-meticulous-overhaul-of-a-shooter-that-still-blasts-with-the-best\">&#8220;The result is a game that looks sharp and fresh, but crucially, not new.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dark Forces is our Game of the Week, of course, and I think this line gets at why. It&#8217;s an old game &#8211; 1995, so it&#8217;s as old as Elastica&#8217;s first album, for those of us who use that metric. A remaster has to bring it up to date without losing that thrilling sense of oldness. The right kind of oldness, though. Complicated.<\/p>\n<p>Remasters are on the rise. They have been on the rise for a number of years, as games have more and more history worth revisiting. But questions like this &#8211; of how to make a game look sharp and fresh, but not new, are going to get more important. Dark Forces hits the sweet spot perfectly, I think: look at the screens and it&#8217;s clearly an old shooter, but your eyes don&#8217;t reject it as being an interesting relic that&#8217;s probably unplayable. Subtle tweaks have been made to ensure it looks modern-old rather than relic-old.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/game-of-the-week-star-wars-dark-forces-and-the-challenge-of-remasters?utm_source=feed&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=feed\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/game-of-the-week-star-wars-dark-forces-and-the-challenge-of-remasters?utm_source=feed&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=feed\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a lovely line in Rick Lane&#8217;s review of Star Wars: Dark Forces. Actually, the piece has no shortage of lovely lines, but one stood out for me in particular. &#8220;The result is a game that looks sharp and fresh, but crucially, not new.&#8221; Dark Forces is our Game of the Week, of course, and I think this line gets at why. It&#8217;s an old game &#8211; 1995, so it&#8217;s as old as Elastica&#8217;s first album, for those of us who use that metric. A remaster has to bring it up to date without losing that thrilling sense of oldness. The right kind of oldness, though. Complicated. Remasters are on the rise. 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