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Remastered or Recycled
Remastered or Recycled
Do you feel that slapping the word “Remastered” onto a game really makes it
a new title worth full price? Alex takes a look and tells you his opinion.
By Alex Avard
A
s many of you may
know, The Last of
Us Remastered has
arrived on PlayStation 4 as a
supposedly new and improved
version of Naughty Dog’s
critically acclaimed masterpiece
that came to PlayStation 3 last
year. This is, of course, one of
the many games to have made
the transition from last-gen to
current-gen over the last nine
months since the Xbox One and
PlayStation 4 finally hit shelves.
We have Tomb Raider: Definitive
Edition and Injustice: Gods
Among Us Ultimate Edition out
already and both Grand Theft
Auto V and Metro: Redux are
on their way. These types of
games are clearly becoming a
commonality, at least during
these early stages following the
new consoles’ launch, in which
next-gen games certainly feel
few and far between. But are
these re-releases something
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the gaming community should
learn to accept and cherish,
or a discomforting cash-cow
that we should try to avoid?
Let’s be an optimistic bunch
and look at the positives first.
Well, next-gen re-releases give
newcomers a chance to play
a great game for the first time
on their brand new consoles,
whilst simultaneously allowing
true fans of said game to play it
all over again, but this time with
all the new bells and whistles
attached. Games that may have
been struggling, on a graphical
level, with the technical limits
of the PlayStation 3 and Xbox
360 can now really have a
chance to show off everything
they have to offer using the
power of the new generation.
The Last Of Us Remastered
can be played in a significantly
smoother 60 frames per second
compared to the 30 frames
per second that it ran on with