11 classic games that deserve a Final Fantasy VII-style remake - farleymothasaim

Forget remasters. Bypast are the years where developers could extend new textures over sure-enough games and call it quits. These days it's all roughly remakes, marauding the late '90s and early '00s for games that deman more than antimonopoly a novel surface of key.

Resident Evil 2 set the barroom pretty damn high, allowing old fans to relive a dear game the fashio they remembered it, piece as wel creating a thoroughly modern horror game for newcomers. It's non on PC (yet), but by all accounts Square's Final Fantasy 7 Redo does the Sami. Activision created slightly more faithful remakes with Spyro and Crash Bandicoot, and is doing the unvarying with the approaching Tony Hawk 1+2. The Black Mesa Project injected new life history into Half-Life. 2K's releasing a Mafia remake this summer.

WHO's next? What other games should get the Resident Evil 2 treatment? We've assemble a list—not just games that deserve a remake, not just games that would benefit from a refashion, but ones where a remake seems actually feasible. And yes, that way you'll find few games the size of Final Fantasy VII on this list, because I think even Solid underestimated the scope of that undertaking at the outset. That means that as much as I'd love to see a Side effect 2 or Knights of the Old Republic or even a Longest Journey remake…fortunate, I'm not keeping my breath.

Tomb Raider

Grave Raider really seems one of the most likely candidates for a remaking. The reboot trilogy, begun in 2013, culminated in a post-credits sequence that strongly hinted at a remake's existence—at least originally.

Patched out at discharge, the original ending showed off Lara Croft's dual pistols and a letter from Jacqueline Natla, antagonist of the original Tomb Raider. These details were removed by the daylight one patch, perhaps to prevent speculation about this precise remaking. And yet…what if? It'd certainly score sense, after three games dog-tired "becoming" the Tomb Raider, if Crystal Dynamics operating theatre Eidos rolled perpendicular into remake Lara Croft's earliest adventures.

Naturally, this would also be the second so much refashion, as Grave Raider: Anniversary already served the same purpose rearwards in 2007.

Irritate Crataegus laevigata Cry

Horrific cameras are the downfall of so many games from this epoch. Ogre Crataegus oxycantha Cry is one of them. After Devil May Cry 5 last year I dependable for the 3rd or fourthly prison term to go back to the source of the series and…I merely can't. Stationary camera angles are a nightmare and I'm beaming we've left them behind.

But I'd love to see Capcom take the same tacking with Devil May Battle cry as IT has with Resident Evil. Give Pine Tree State those early stories functional in the RE Engine, with modern combos and modern vocalism acting and (near importantly) a modern camera, and I'd be happy to give the series a second shot. I think I in conclusion understand wherefore people love the serial, but eve 2018's Devil May Shout out HD Collection isn't sufficient to get me to suffer through that first game in its current incarnation.

Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory

People have titled for a Splinter Cellular telephone boot for years straight off, but how do you reboot Splinter Cell in the modern era? Populate haven't seemed happy with the past few entries. Maybe information technology's clip to cram Sam Fisher back into his form-fitting suit and redo the most popular entryway in the series.

Pandemonium Theory was the peak of the freehand Splinter Cell formula, with a stress on acquiring through levels undetected, hiding in the shadows more than shooting. Starting with the 2006 sequel Double Agentive role, Splinter Cadre moved more towards action and ne'er really found its style backward. Chaos Theory's plot is the usual Tom Clancy-inspired thriller nonsense, so you could theoretically get away with renewing the Chaos Possibility style with no of the finer details. More of Chaos Theory's levels are triumphs of stealth design though, including the bank and the bathhouse. Maybe a hybrid remake-reboot, like last year's Call of Tariff: New Warfare?

Silent Hill 2

Silent Hill 2 is lauded every bit united of horror gaming's high-water Simon Marks—mostly by people who played IT circa 2001. Horror games age particularly poorly though, because their impact ofttimes relies connected the player "buying in," so to speak. Understood Hill 2's story is as layered and dispiriting as ever, simply IT's a tur hard to appreciate shackled to its original environs and stilted animations.

Resident Evil 2 is proof horror games of the era can represent resurrected though, and Silent Hill started as little more than a Resident Evil clone. Go beforehand Konami, "adopt" the idea of a remake. Or serve literally anything with Silent Hill, please. It deserves the same love As its Capcom twin.

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time

Prince of Persia essentially died when Assassin's Church doctrine took off, just Sands of Time deserves love. It's still the high full point of the series, with its sunk palace master of ceremonies to plenty of iconic moments that are ripe for reimagining. The storybook framing is still amazingly unique A well, with the prince's "No, that's not how IT happened" admonition upon end lending the feel a Princess Saint Brigid vibe.

The dispute would cost qualification mounting-around-an-environment interesting once again. New during the Prince of Persia era, we've had more than adequate of it between Assassin's Creed and Uncharted and the Tomb Raider reboots. Prince of Persia's climbing was always more puzzle-like, but distillery, information technology's been through.

And uh, forget the sequels. The Sands of Time is great but the nu-metal inspired Warrior Within was bad at the time and worsened forthwith.

Assassinator's Creed

Speaking of Assassinator's Creed, it'd be interesting to see the start of the series remade. The proof of concept for a serial that's straightaway lasted over a decade, the novel Assassinator's Creed is an anomaly now. Stealth-focused, with a surprising amount of fourth dimension spent sitting on benches, information technology's almost unrecognizable in the Origins and Odyssey ERA. Hell, Bravo's Church doctrine II was already markedly different (and improved) than the original.

Given the series is ongoing though, and given the import the original gamy still has to the overarching story (if you're one of the multitude who charge), it'd be interesting to see a progressive charter. Jerusalem during the Third Crusade is a rich setting, and an Origins-human-sized refashion of Altair's journey could be fascinating.

Okay, I'm not expression this one's as likely every bit some others on the list. But hey, the world-class Assassin's Creed is 13 old age old now and still the foundation of ace of today's biggest series. At some point Ubisoft needs to either revive the originals operating theatre just let all the modern-twenty-four hours trappings die. Otherwise, who's even active to call up Desmond Miles?

Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver

These years Amy Hennig is probably best known for Unknown, just before that was Bequest of Kain. Given that most games in the serial publication endways cliffhangers, it's tumid to single any of them out for a remaking. Soul Reaver remains the most popular though, and I imagine a wax-fledgeling remake could in all likelihood work through the content of both Soul Reaver and its continuation in a single game nowadays.

It's probably not soaring on Square's anteriority leaning. Crystal Dynamics and Eidos are bad damn busy these days, and Tomb Raider gets the lion ploughshare of attention. Soul Reaver remains a cult classic though, with a story that seems sophisticated even now, not to mention past the standards of its solar day. I'd love to see a modern take. Or hell, I'd be happy with a remaster.

Max Payne

Listen, I'd rather Remedy hold open making Wyrd games. Permit them sour on Manipulate and whatever the hell else they want to wee-wee. Don't saddleback them with a remake.

That aforesaid, Max Payne is an unthinkable shooter with a surreal story that holds raised surprisingly well, and someone should work along a make over. Who? I have no idea, but the series is owned past Subscribe to-Deuce, and the impending Mafia remake indicates that someone over there is at the least conscious of this veer, so…give information technology to soul. Beat Sam Lake's front onto a new body, displume the big "Bullet Time" lever tumbler, and IT'll be just in sentence for The Matrix to come back fashionable.

Congressional Medal of Honor: Allied Violate

Respawn is reviving the Medal of Honor name with the VR-exclusive Medal of Abide by: Above and Beyond later this year. Mayhap it'll comprise good.

But I'd love to consider a modern take on Palm of Honor: Allied Assault and its Spearpoint expansion. While I admire that Battlefield V tried to focus on lesser-known stories of World State of war II, both in an effort to branch out people's understanding of the conflict and to relieve the "Oh, another World War II shooter" weariness…well, I've got a quiet spot for my Band of Brothers and Saving Private Ryan remakes.

In Palm of Honor canon, that was Allied Assault and Spearhead. Return me that fake Hanks leading me up Omaha Beach. Give me Normandy hedgerows and the chill foxholes of Bastogne. Then give it to me with completely the bells and whistles that Ea's Bodoni font Frostbite engine can offer, because actual Allied Assault has not aged OK.

Riven

Blue-green has remade Myst three times, with realMyst, Myst: Masterpiece Edition, and realMyst: Chef-d'oeuvre Version. Information technology has never remade Riven, despite Riven being the superior game.

And perhaps we'll ne'er go steady a truly official Riven remake. I know in the past Cyan has same that Riven is simply likewise large to contract the realMyst treatment in full 3D. Thither's hope though. For old age, a group of fans called the Starry Expanse Project has worked to convince Riven to Substitute 4 with Chromatic's blessing. Hold up year they finally got much a grace, with Cyan agreeing to brook the project in a semi-official capacity. That doesn't mean IT's coming soon, but Riven seems similar a definite checkmark for the remake column…someday.

Beyond Good & Evil

Thus far, Beyond Good & Evil 2 seems to exist as nix to a greater extent than tech demos and dreams. Theoretically Ubisoft will one day publish the long-awaited subsequence though, and when information technology does I hope Beyond Good & Evil arrives alongside. It's still so charming, one of the best examples of the signal-and-click adventure style transposed into full 3D, with a sharpen on puzzles and exploration and picture taking as an alternative of combat.

On the far side Good & Evil is still perfectly playable present, but with pile of early 3D earned run average jank that detracts from the overall experience. You derriere too tell Michel Ancel's ambitions were limited by the technical school of the time—a sentiment that's even clearer after observance the On the far side Advantageous & Hellish 2 teasers. I'd have it away to play through with Tire out's adventure as it was meant to be experienced.