A killer announcement?
The rumours were true!Until Dawn, Supermassive Games breakthroughhorror gamepreviously exclusive to PlayStation 4, is coming to PC in a remastered re-release later this year.
A spruced-up version of the 2015 game - which set the formula for Supermassives effective mix of choose-your-own-death branching stories, uncanny facial tech and cameos from Hollywood actors later repeated in theDark Pictures AnthologyandThe Quarry- wasreported to be on the way to PCthis time last week.
An announcement trailer revealed during Sonys State of Play showcase today confirmed the report, with UK studio Ballistic Moon working on a remastered Until Dawn said to be rebuilt and enhanced from the original.
The brief snippets of footage seen during the trailer certainly look nice, but dont really give a proper idea of how far those enhancements might go.
Until Dawn looked sharp at the time, with its wobbly framerate being the main downside - almost a decade on, youd hope that might be smoothed out in this upcoming release.
Otherwise, what we see is largely a trailer for the original Until Dawn itself, with Hayden Heroes Panettieres Sam joined by the likes of Rami Malek in a cast of teens trying to escape a gravelly-voiced killer in the snowy mountains.
Whether they survive will be down to your ability to choose the right options and occasionally pass a quicktime event, which will be familiar if youve played The Quarry or any of the Dark Pictures games released since.
The Until Dawn remaster will release for PC later in 2024 - youd expect it might be out before Halloween - ahead of theplanned film adaptationof what is basically a playable horror movie anyway.
From experience, its still packed with effective scares and well worth playing if you havent had the chance yet.
