Respawn may have had its Star Wars game canceled, but the developer is still working on other exciting titles, including a new Titanfall game.
Respawn, the creator of Apex Legends, was working on a Star Wars game, but it was unfortunately canceled. This does, however, mean that the developers are able to work on another project and this one appears to take place in the Titanfall universe according to Insider Gaming.
While this doesn’t appear to be Titanfall 3 – sorry – this game will be part of the Titanfall universe, which should still get players excited for this upcoming title.
Game set in the Titanfall universe in development at Respawn
Jeff Grubb revealed on the Game Mess Mornings podcast that even though Respawn’s Star Wars game was canceled, the developers turned their attention to a new project that was just as exciting, if not more so. This new title takes place in the Titanfall universe.
While the canceled game, a Mandalorian first-person shooter, won’t see the light of day after multiple layoffs at EA and Respawn, at least fans know there’s something else in the works. Unfortunately, this is not Titanfall 3, but simply a game set in the universe.
The game as it stands today, from what I understand, is a Titanfall game – it takes place in the Titanfall universe.
There isn’t much information known about this game yet. Could this be some form of resurgence of Titanfall Legends, which was shelved some time ago? The game would have been a single-player title in the Apex Legends universe, which would have likely gained popularity thanks to the popularity of Apex Legends.
For now, we just have to be patient until Respawn and EA provide more information and context on what a game in the Pitfall universe looks like without it actually being Titanfall 3…
In just under a month, Control, the highly anticipated new game from Remedy Entertainment, will be released. To get a bit in the mood, we go through the entire oeuvre of the Finnish developer again, and in order from moderate, to good, to better, to the very best!
From August 27, we can get to work with Control, the new, promising, dark and supernatural adventure of our Finnish friends at Remedy Entertainment. Or Remedy Games, as they also call themselves. Or just Remedy. May all. A good time to look back on what they have done and what we should measure their new game against. That’s why here are all their games so far ranked on quality. And of course I won’t make up that order myself, no! This was decided after wise consultation with the PU editors. (read: “hey, send all your top 6 Remedy Games games, then I’ll put them in an article”).
A short history lesson: Remedy was founded in 1995 by a group of tech guys passionate about creating fancy tech demos who decided to use their skills for something more lucrative: games! Soon there was top-down combat racer Death Rally, but the real breakthrough of course came thanks to Max Payne in 2001. It put Remedy on the map as a developer of atmospheric and cinematic narrative action games, from which they have never left. And now quickly to the only correct ranking of Remedy games! In our opinion then.
7. Agents of Storm (2014)
We start with clearly the least compelling Remedy title. If not fascinating, that I doubted whether he should be in this list, but just done for the sake of completeness. Wasn’t I just talking about Remedy’s oh-so-atmospheric narrative action games above? Well, this iOS app is pretty much the opposite of that. Agent of Storm is a kind of reverse tower defense game, in which you conquer islands with boats, to build more boats, to conquer even more islands. Yawn. Funny graphics and explosions by the way. For an iPad game from 2014, huh. It should be clear: a well-deserved last place! And now quickly on to the real games.
6. Death Rally (1996)
The sixth place on this list is actually shared by two games: the original DOS game from 1996 and the remake for iOS and Android from 2011, but which is now only decently playable through Steam. But hey, it happened to be Remedy’s first game and that might deserve a little more credit. What also does not help in the score is that almost no one of the editors has played this game, except Graddus. He says …
Anyway, for an at first sight dreadful top-down racer, Death Rally is pretty hardcore and violent. Not only does the game have an exaggerated badass voice-over (which will be a recurring thing for Remedy…), but you can also run over the spectators along the side of the track! This results in the typical bloody skid marks, which I only knew from GTA and Carmageddon. Did they secretly copy that from Remedy? Who knows! Also nice: Remedy was allowed to put in the game by publisher Apogee Duke Nukem, as one of your opponents.
5. Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne (2003)
The press was full of praise at the time and it is also a bit higher than this on my personal list, but the rest of the editors seem to have just a little too little love for the second chapter of this tragic film noir epic. As a result, Max Payne 2 unfortunately remains in place 5. The sales figures were also disappointing for one reason or another. Could it be because Max no longer wears the charismatic face of Sam Lake, Remedy’s regular writer and now creative director? Or simply because in terms of gameplay it was unable to add anything new to the groundbreaking original? You name it!
In any case, it is not the story. Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne is set a few years after part 1, when Max returns to the dark, raunchy, smelly, yet strikingly atmospheric underworld of New York, as a detective at the NYPD. This time it is all about the enigmatic Mona Sax, in a violent quest where nothing is what it seems. Spoiler alert: on the highest difficulty you get a slightly different, far too happy ending for a Max Payne game.
4. Alan Wake’s American Nightmare (2012)
Arriving at number 4 on the list, we find a very successful spin-off from Alan Wake, which feels like a kind of stand-alone extension to the original game. Apparently, at Remedy, they were completely done with the serious, dark stuff of all their other games and had to reset with more lighthearted nonsense. And she succeeded! Alan is now suddenly the protagonist in an episode of Night Springs, a typical American horror show and everything that comes with it. With a super cheesy, but extra epic voice-over of course!
You have to deal with Mr. Scratch, a kind of evil twin brother of Alan Wake, who has manipulated a village in Arizona and turned all its inhabitants into zombies and other monsters. The gameplay is obviously more about brutal violence than in Alan Wake, but the trusted flashlight is still just there.
Quantum Break (2016)
The most recent Remedy game, the last for Control, finished in third place. It is almost a game-series hybrid, because after every act of the game, the story continues in live-action ‘episodes’. It interrupts your gameplay of course and you have to feel like it, but it is all in all excellent. Especially as soon as you notice that you can influence what happens in the story and they have actually filmed different outcomes.
In addition, Quantum Break shines in its brutally designed action, something that Remedy seems to be getting better at, miraculously. Time bending has never looked so cool! And neither are the main characters (apart from Sam Lake), played by Shawn Ashmore, who we know from X-Men, Aiden Gillen from Game of Thrones and Dominic Monaghan from Lost. It could cost a little from Microsoft!
2. Max Payne (2001)
The number two is occupied by the game that was the absolute breakthrough for Remedy Entertainment. Rightly so! At a time when we found bullet-time, thanks to The Matrix, the ultimate visual effect for action scenes, there was suddenly a game in which you could do that yourself. off with your third-person cover shooter, just dive and shoot around you in slow motion. That was the ! It felt hard, it felt rough, it felt good.
It all fits perfectly with the way the film noir-esque story is told and Max Payne’s intro is still one of the best opening scenes in games ever. The raw, almost cheesy visual novel as a cut scene, the shrill cello that cuts through the bone and the way too cool voice of Max Payne as a voice-over, telling his own story. Unforgettable. Fun fact: we all know the headline of writer Sam Lake, but his own mother, among others, also modeled for a character in the game.
1. Alan Wake (2010)
And the prize for best Remedy game so far goes to, how could it be otherwise, Alan Wake! The dreamy Twin Peaks-esque village of Bright Falls and the amount of detail, the atmosphere, the characters. Everything is right! The combat here has something unique again, where you first have to shine enough light on your enemies before you can damage them with more conventional weapons. Your flashlight is your best friend throughout the game.
Yes, Remedy may know better than anyone how to interweave story and gameplay. Come on, the ending may not be very satisfying, but the good news is that Remedy recently regained the rights to Alan Wake. And you can bet that it is not for nothing! The long-awaited sequel? Or just a remaster for other systems, now that it is no longer a Microsoft-exclusive brand? Yes, come on!
And that’s it, our top 7 from Remedy Entertainment, so far! Do not agree with? Fight it out among yourselves in the comments which you think is the best, then I will have a look at the very tasty new story trailer from Control. Hmm, could that game knock Alan Wake off the Remedy throne?
