The first release of The City of the Damned: Apocalpyse has hit the crowd on the 1st of November 2007. That's quite a long time to be honest. It was well received and still is one of the must-play-classics but it didn't age too well. In the past thre years, a few talented friends and I took the time and effort to prepare something for this year's Halloween: A remastered version of The City of the Damned: Apocalpyse.
So in a few days, prepare yourself for very special experience - no matter if you have played the original already or if you are totally new to the franchise. You like Resident Evil? You love Silent Hill? You are into Blood? This is a thrilling mixture of all of these titles.
For those who played the original, what's actually new?
- Improved progression and modern-style game design
- Combat tweaks with punchier weapons
- Bespoke(tm) gore effects by Nash Muhandes, made specifically for TCOTD2
- A journal to keep track of your objectives, as well any letters you've found
- A new, custom font to improve readability
- New areas to discover (city cistern, camping site, swamp)
- Expanded areas (new rooms in buildings, new shortcuts to avoid backtracking)
- New puzzles and quests
- A new item to help you anticipate the impending nightmares
- Unique ammo types for all weapons
- Fully localized text (available in english, german and italian)
- Improved user interface for reading letters
- Improved grammar and language
- High resolution letter images just for the sake of style
- Revamped monster cast (improved enemies, new enemies)
- Final boss variants depending on whether you choose the Path of Doom or the Road of Blood
- New final boss battle music
- New fullscreen HUD and a slightly customized alt HUD
- Improved player/actor scaling for fitting proportions
- Improved exclamation marks for quest objects and letters
- Judicious use of shaders for some sprites, and post processing
- Toggle-able fog and snow effects
- Optional weapon sway and strafe-tilting
- Voxels for some static decorations
- Converted most doors into Polyobjects for increased realism
- Faux volumetric lighting effects
- Displacement maps
- Widescreen support (21:9)
- Animated TITLEMAP instead of a static graphic
- Full color sprites and textures (no longer restricted to the Doom palette)
- Actor optimization and massive scripting cleanup
- Full coop support (GZDoom P2P multiplayer only; NOT Zandronum)
- Special: Finally you can visit the barn from the original TITLEPIC ;)
Sounds awesome, cannot wait! 😺
I promise you, it will be worth the wait :)
What a coincidence, I was just playing TCOTD:A last night for my yearly Halloween gaming and now a remastered version is announced.
That will make the differences even more obvious for you :)
Can't wait, you've clearly put a lot of effort into this!
We all did, this is really not only a visual polishment. You will encounter so many different areas and changes, it's just like a new game.
I'm excited for this one.
Time to try it :)