Found this article of a preview for the game.
https://www.usgamer.net/articles/destroy-all-humans-remake-2020-hands-on-preview
The remake, to put it bluntly, is baffling. And it doesn't look as good in action as its Rammstein-soundtracked trailer might lead you to believe.
Destroy All Humans, of course, is already on modern consoles thanks to a 1080p port of the first game and its immediate sequel. With the 1080p PS4 port, the original Destroy All Humans not only looks better than it ever has, it's also readily accessible for those with nostalgia. Where Crypto looks appropriately cranky; the environments are barren and very beige, but at least now it's at a higher resolution. Following the remake's demo, now carrying morbid curiosity with me, I looked up a Let's Play on YouTube to compare and contrast the original's introduction versus what I just played in this new remake. The opening mission's moment to moment, right down to the dialogue, is exactly the same.
There are minor stylistic differences, of course. In the remake, Crypto's forehead wrinkles are a little ironed out; his head almost looks bigger, his teeth sharper. The world, in general, is a lot brighter in color, with ultra green grass that makes the environment pop a little bit more compared to its considerably more muted counterpart. The cows even have big cartoonish eyes now rather than looking like regular ol' cows as they did in the original.
It begins just as the original game did, with a spaceship landing and Crypto the alien snarling as he lays his eyes on Earth for the first time. After some barking from your Invader Zim-voiced commander and some telekinetic cow throwing, Crypto obliterates nearby farms and human beings both on the ground with a laser gun and from his awkwardly-controlling spaceship. The humor is exactly the same (probing gags and all); the mechanics feel just as they did on PlayStation 2. Rather than bring the series to the modern age, à la Capcom's Resident Evil 2, Destroy All Humans stubbornly sticks to its clunky roots. It just has updated graphics and more vibrant environments now.
But this is the only difference between the original Destroy All Humans and Black Forest Games' remake. Otherwise, the voices are the same. Initially, I thought, "Oh they got Richard Horvitz back." (The voice of the aforementioned Zim, and more video game related, of Raz in Psychonauts.) But after talking with a colleague about the audio's shaky quality, we came to the conclusion that no, it sounds more likely that it's just the PlayStation 2 and Xbox game's audio dropped in. I reached out to Black Forest Games, who confirmed the suspicion.
"It's the audio from the original game, with the same legendary delivery of lines from the original voice actors," the studio says in a statement. "We are working on improving the quality of the dialogue quality as far as the original audio can be pushed without losing its original feel." From the sounds of it, the original game's audio is being repurposed for this remake, rather than re-recorded. And it not only sounds the same, it even feels the same in that janky, 3D action-adventure PS2 era sort of way.
You guys got any thoughts about this article? Is it a good or bad thing in your eyes, i've never experienced the first one.
oh my god this and the second one used to be my favorite games. I'm so excited for this
I remember me and a friend spent so much time trying to unlock coop in the first one. we assumed that the clone on the upper deck on the mothership was the second player and that we had to do something to unlock it
I don't remember any of the controls for this game being clunky, and I played less than a year ago so I don't know what they're on about with that. The audio thing is too bad though.
I would wait much closer to release before you pass judgement. It's really common for video games to look like crap when they're still actively in development. Frankly I'm surprised they're bothering to show previews to journalists this early.
The game will have a demo on E3, wait till more opinions are there if you really want preview opinions
If this is what THQ has done so far, I can't want to see what new Red Faction game they might make.
Well technically its 10 years later and this remake just been announced.
They also got a release window for 2020 so it's still gonna be in development for a while.
While the devs of the newer Bubsy game being behind it doesn't leave me with much confidence, it is an early demo, and it's a remake instead of a completely new game, so I'm willing to wait for after release on the general opinion of it.
I bet we're gonna see a lot of "it plays like DAH, and that's old" stances though, which like... ok? Shouldn't a DAH remake play like DAH?
Shame they couldn't get the VAs to come in and re-record the lines, probably due to budgetary reasons, but here's hoping they can either spruce them up in quality or somehow get the original non compressed recordings.
A Destroy All Humans remake is en route, but rather than refresh the PS2 and Xbox classic for a new generation, it's just... the same game again
https://i.imgur.com/G8gF7rV.jpg
If they recreated the entire game from the ground up like it says on Steam, then I'm impressed they were able to get the same feel.
The delayed lip sync on that first ich will frustrates me to no end, why is it like that!?
Given the author's focus on inane details like the way the character's forehead wrinkles, calling the new graphics a "cartoony look," and even entertaining the prospect of re-recording the dialogue of a fifteen-year-old game with the same actors, I would venture to say she does not understand the concept of a remaster specifically or of game design in general.
I would like to see some gameplay changes, though. Maybe backport transmogrify from Destroy All Humans 2, a more refined control scheme (jump and shoot on the shoulders and triggers, for example, instead of face buttons), maybe a new weapon or power or two. And mod support, please have that.
"THING YOU ARE EXCITED FOR IS ACTUALLY TRASH!!!! GIVE US CLICKS!!!!!"
trailer: fucking owns
rammstein: definitely fucking owns
game: probably gonna fucking own
game journalists: absolutely do not own under any circumstances
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAbKYKhMMlk
There is gameplay now so feel free to compare them now.
looks like a dream come true tbh
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