Earlie🧸r this year, Nightdive Studios announced Star Wars: Dark Forces✤ Remaster, and now we finally have a ♍release date for the game - it's coming almost exactly 29 years after the original.
🔯Dark Forces Remaster will launch on February 28, 2024, as reports. The new version will be available across PC, Xbox Series X and S, Xbox One, PS5, PS4, and Switch, and will support resolutions up to 4K and frame rates up to 120 FPS depending on the hardware - both of which are quite notable improvements over the original PC version, released on March 10, 1995.
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Dark Forces enjoyed the benefits of several years worth of post-Doom genre development - you can look upward, for example - but its most notable feature was probably its extensive story segments, including animated cutscenes with proper voice acting. The game told the story of protagonist Kyle Katarn, who became a figure so beloved that fans are desperate to see him🌼 in Star Wars Outlaws, and plot elements like the stolen Death Star plans and the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Dark Trooper program are still being revisited in modern🐼 S🔯tar Wars canon.
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Dustin Bailey joined the GamesRadar team as a Staff Writer in May 2022, and is currently based in Missouri. He's been covering games (with occasional dalliances in the worlds of anime and pro wrestling) since 2015, first as a freelancer, then as a news writer at PCGamesN for nearly five years. His love for games was sparked somewhere between Metal Gear Solid 2 and Knights of the Old Republic, and these days you can usually find him splitting his entertainment time between retro gaming, the late♕st big action-adventure title, or a long haul in American Tru𒁃ck Simulator.
