The rumors were true: a remake of is coming to PlayStation 5 and PC later this year. As revealed during The enhanced version of the interactive horror game is being built in Unreal Engine 5 and will feature several new bells and whistles.
You'll be able to experience the action from a third-person perspective for the first time. Ballistic Moon, which is handling the remake in place of original developer Supermassive Games, is expanding the color palette to make it more cinematic and introducing pop-up character movement animations.
There's also new music from horror composer Mark Korven (The witch), while characters, visual effects and environments all benefit from improvements. “We strived to retain the fantastical narrative embedded in the original, but took the opportunity to expand on unexplored emotional parts of the story,” Ballistic Moon creative director Neil McEwan wrote on the site. .
The remake is expected to arrive before the film adaptation of Until dawn it was announced in January. Unless the actors all reprise their roles, the new version of the game will likely have bragging rights in at least one respect: the presence of a true Oscar winner in the form of Rami Malek.