In a really sudden announcement, Bandai Namco introduced it’s publishing a remaster of the PlayStation-published Vita traditional Freedom Wars. Merely titled Freedom Wars Remastered, gamers can start paying their million yr jail sentence on January 10, 2025 for PS5 and PS4.
What are the brand new options in Freedom Wars Remastered?
Freedom Wars Remastered options the bells and whistles gamers anticipate from rereleases. Upgraded textures, 60 frames per second efficiency, and 4K decision are all current for each PS4 and PS5 variations. High quality of life enhancements together with an overhauled weapon crafting system, sport stability changes, and extra problem choices are additionally added.
“Within the distant future, humanity is in a wrestle to outlive. Air pollution has devastated the planet, and the remnants of humanity are divided amongst city-sized prisons known as Panopticons,” says the sport’s official description. “So scarce are assets that residing itself is a criminal offense and people born are instantly given one million years of jail time. Dubbed ‘Sinners’ the one possibility aside from awaiting demise in jail is to battle for freedom with allies for assets, to rescue residents from abduction by rival enemies, or take up arms in opposition to different enemy Sinners.”
The director of Freedom Wars Takashi Tsukamoto spoke with IGN in regards to the remaster. He confirms that Dimps and Sony got here to an settlement on the license, and partnered with Bandai Namco for the venture.
“The chance by no means actually offered itself till now,” says Tsukamoto. “We had been in a position to come to an settlement with Sony relating to the license and so they had been in a position to associate up with Bandai Namco, and it simply so occurs that it’s about 10 years later that each one of it began coming to fruition.”
Moreover, he mentioned the potential for a Freedom Wars sequel. Whereas it is probably not within the playing cards simply but, he hopes this remaster succeeds to allow them to take the subsequent steps in persevering with the sequence.
“What success would seem like is for this sport to do nicely, and nicely sufficient that we may take the subsequent step into probably releasing a sequel,” Tsukamoto says. “As a lot as we’d prefer to share it with you, we don’t know if there’s going to be a sequel but in fact, but when there’s a sequel, we’ve got tons of concepts we’d need to implement into stated sequel.”
The PlayStation-published Freedom Wars initially launched in 2014 solely for PS Vita. Developed by Dimps, the motion RPG acquired common critiques garnering a 73 rating on Metacritic. Though it reached cult standing right here within the US, it was extremely fashionable in Japan attaining the second highest opening gross sales of any PS Vita sport.
In our evaluate, Freedom Wars acquired a 6 out of 10. Heath Hindman wrote in regards to the PlayStation-published sport, “for each factor Freedom Wars does proper, there’s some a part of it that feels incomplete or one other facet that interferes with how good it may have been. It’s general an excellent sport, however not a powerful advice.”