Beyond Good & Evil HD announced

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Obviously announced to tide us over until Beyond Good & Evil 2 (or so we dream), IGN has revealed that a re-release of the original Michael Ancel masterpiece Beyond Good & Evil is on the way, under the moniker of modern industry buzzword 'high definition' no less.

What this means is that the beloved cult classic is getting quite a make over. Art assets, from models to textures, are being spruced up for fancy 1080p resolution and crisper displays, and audio will be completely remastered for today's sound systems. On top of this achievements, trophies, and online leaderboards will be added for extended replay value.

As expected from the achievements and trophies, the high definition remastering of Beyond Good & Evil is planned for release across the Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network at an unspecified date sometime later this year.

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22 Comments

phenomenon9999

1 year ago

Framerates destroyed this game on the PS2. Hope is comes out silky smooth!

Capoeira

1 year ago

Looks like I'll be triple dipping.

This HD remake trend is the dog's balls. Keep 'em coming creatively bankrupt industry!

/confusing praise

critter2003

1 year ago

Awesome, would love an excuse to go back and play this again

ashlar

1 year ago

phenomenon9999 wrote

Framerates destroyed this game on the PS2. Hope is comes out silky smooth!

But the GC version was fantastic
/just sayin

Benza

1 year ago

played it on the PC were despite my pc being way more powerfull then it needed could barley run any scene with water due to a problem with the NVIDIA graphics card and the game.

Still a great game.

light487

1 year ago

Ooooooooh! This is one game I really wanted to play but never got around to. Will they be making a PC port do you think? If not I'll just grab from PSN.. but would prefer PC.

matrix-cat

1 year ago

My PC version works almost perfectly when I turn off the game's anti-aliasing (I think I can force it through my graphics card drivers anyway). And with Pinnacle Game Profiler it maps perfectly to a 360 controller.

Yet I will so totally buy this. A remastered soundtrack is worth the entry fee alone, and I'll never pass up the opportunity to tell Ubisoft that yes I do want BG&E2.

Pagan's Mind

1 year ago

Can't wait. It's nice seeing quality games like this one getting the HD treatment and being released over XBLA and PSN.

RhysDeschain

1 year ago

Friggin awesome! I have this game on PC but prefer to play these types of games on a console so never finished it (but absolutely loved what I played of it). I'm praying the wait isn't too long!! Now I just have to decide which console to get it on...

theory

1 year ago

I never did get around to playing this back in the day. Definitely gonna hit this up.

bernietoast

1 year ago

Awesome, hopefully this and the reboots from team ICO sell really well and will encourage more classic reboots from underappreciated games. The hell with new IP!

hello123

1 year ago

I never finished it on xbox 1.

So when in eb a while back it was $8 so i bought it and was wrapped (the xb1 vers). Took it home to find....It is not supported on the 360

Damn M$ those bastards.

light487

1 year ago

PALGN wrote

As expected from the achievements and trophies, the high definition remastering of Beyond Good & Evil is planned for release across the Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network at an unspecified date sometime later this year.

Sooo.. any word on the release date for this yet? I've been checking the PSN store every few days in anticipation...

PixieGirl

1 year ago

light487 wrote

Ooooooooh! This is one game I really wanted to play but never got around to. Will they be making a PC port do you think? If not I'll just grab from PSN.. but would prefer PC.

I think the original PC version is the same as this remake because from screenshots it looks exactly the same and the original can already go to HD resolutions... So just pick up the original for PC and save some money (:

I think the only thing you will be missing out on is the remastered sountrack!

Capoeira

1 year ago

After the utter disappointment that was Prince of Persia HD, my anticipation for this is all but gone.

I'll wait to see if Ubisoft have done a better job with this... I'm not optimistic.

Sin Ogaris

1 year ago

I didn't mind the PoP game on Arcade.

Capoeira

1 year ago

I meant Sands of Time HD. They 'remastered' it for the PSN like they're doing with Beyond Good and Evil. It was apparently a train wreck, hence the trepidation.

Island_Wolf

1 year ago

I played the game once but I cannot imagine playing it again for the second time :S

Didn't know it sold that well to get a HD version, I thought it struggled to sell :S

Benza

1 year ago

Island_Wolf wrote

I played the game once but I cannot imagine playing it again for the second time :S

Didn't know it sold that well to get a HD version, I thought it struggled to sell :S

It didn't sell well, it bombed financially but has become a massive cult game since.

Cerebral

1 year ago

Sounds great. I own the GCN version, but could never finish it (largely) due to the forced widescreen eating up about a third of my tiny monitor at the time. I couldn't see ****.

Xernova

1 year ago

Oh, yeah. I already have this on my to-buy list. Though I already own the original game for PS2, this game really had a lot of stuff to do, so I'm guessing this HD-remake will have a nice list of interesting trophies/achievements (rather than silly ones such as "make 50 siderolls", "jump over that rock 20 times", "spend more than 60 hours playing our 30-hours-long game"). And this game already had a great soundtrack, so a remastered version should be just another plus.

Planning to get this one for sure.

qwas

1 year ago

When I first played this game I enjoyed it, but it was nowhere near my level of expectation (Mainly because people were hyping it as the best game in years), but I'm willing to play it again and see if I missed the magic the first time around.

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