Life is Strange: Remastered Collection is out February 1st, and Square Enix has finally treated us to a good chunk of gameplay from the first title in the series. The six minutes of footage show a segment from early in the Life is Strange campaign, during Episode 1: Chrysalis.
The collection will also include the first game's prequel, Before the Storm, although that isn't the focus of this footage. We'd expect it to look pretty similar though, given the developer's remastering efforts will carry across both games.
Alongside the footage, Square Enix has detailed some of the core changes coming with this remaster. The games have been rebuilt in Unreal Engine 4 with 4K in mind, and that extends to the character models too.
Facial animations and expressions have been updated as well, with a huge focus on lip-syncing to make cutscenes and conversations look and feel more natural. Environment models have also been improved as the game targets 4K resolutions.
Does this collection look like a major improvement over the originals to you? Let us know below.
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I just saw a comparison video of this and the original over on Pushsquare and the difference is absolute minimal, makes you wonder why they even bothered making a remaster for the same systems that the original released on. They should of just made a Series X/S and PS5 version to make it look and run the best it possibly can.
@MaccaMUFC I mean, the LiS 2&3 games on the generation of consoles following the 360 games looked identical as well. Also, just wanted to throw out, LiS2 is one of the worst games I ever played, hands down.
I enjoyed LiS and LiS:BTS but couldn't really get into LiS2 as much. Even though i enjoyed them, it seems way too soon to do any kind of remaster if ever. The art style is fine on these and if it didn't tell me this was the remaster - i'd have assumed it was video of the original release
@Clankylad I believe you would get the remasters once they release.
@MaccaMUFC Honestly these "remasters" have been becoming a joke lately, especially when it's just a game from last gen where you will hardly notice any improvements. Seems like it's just a lame excuse to keep selling the same games.
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