Forward of the discharge of the developer’s long-awaited horror sequel, Alan Wake 2, Remedy Leisure inventive director Sam Lake revealed simply how massive of an enterprise the upcoming Max Payne remakes are for the corporate. Although rumors of remakes of the enduring third-person shooters had swirled for years, it wasn’t till 2022 that Treatment Leisure confirmed that remakes of Max Payne and Max Payne 2 can be making their option to PC and consoles.
Bringing the Max Payne video games as much as fashionable requirements is a “massive, massive undertaking.”
As a part of an interview with VGC discussing the upcoming launch of Alan Wake 2, Lake shared his transient ideas on the problem of updating the Max Payne video games for contemporary audiences and {hardware}. Responding to a query concerning the significance of the long-awaited remakes, Lake said that making an attempt to carry the pair of iconic third-person shooters as much as fashionable requirements represents a “massive, massive undertaking” for the corporate. Though Treatment has but to disclose many particulars about them, CEO Tero Virtala mentioned earlier this 12 months that manufacturing on the Max Payne 1 & 2 remakes has “progressed properly.”
The interview additionally touched on how Treatment plans to discover a steadiness between sequels and authentic IP shifting ahead. Though upcoming sequels like Alan Wake 2 (which is slated to be Treatment’s longest recreation but) and the Max Payne remakes keep on with the corporate’s present IPs it hasn’t given up on creating new content material. Lake advised VGC that upcoming Treatment titles like Vanguard present that, regardless of its success with sequels, the corporate isn’t slowing down in the case of rising its ever-expanding Treatment Related Universe.
It might nonetheless be some time till avid gamers are in a position to get their arms on the remakes of Max Payne 1 & 2, however fortunately Treatment has loads of video games in manufacturing to maintain gamers joyful within the meantime. Along with Alan Wake 2 and the co-op PVE shooter Vanguard, the studio can be engaged on two new entries within the Management franchise. With so many video games in improvement at Treatment unfold throughout so many various genres, followers of the studio’s distinctive mix of favor and substance should not have any drawback discovering one thing to play for years to come back.