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I'm not a fan of remakes, you all know that. But that's not completely
true. More precisely, I am not a fan of _official_ remakes, made by
the original publishers and sold for cash. Fan remakes are an entirely different thing as far as I'm concerned. They're usually higher
quality, and made with more love than their commercial competitors. I
*like* fan remakes.

And I like this remake too: the Rebel Assault Remake (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kn8-4_pLprE)

Alas, it isn't released yet but what we've seen of it so far is quite impressive. Of course, given the source material (the original game
was a full-motion-video 'rail-shooter' of the sort that was popular
back in the early 90s), it's not hard to be a better game. And make no
bones about it, the 1993 version was a terrible game. Oh, it was
impressive to see full-screen video, and new Star Wars material was
quite rare back then, but the gameplay and controls were terrible.

The remake aims to update the game so its running on Unreal Engine and
in full 3D. It will still be a rail-shooter, albeit with a little more
freedom of movement. The controls look to be greatly improved too.
While I'll never rank rail-shooters as my favorite genre, the remake
looks to make "Rebel Assault" playable, if not entirely rewarding. And
just not having to stare at a bunch of giant, blocky pixels (the
original video was very heavily compressed) makes the whole thing
worth it.

Here's hoping the IP owners don't shut down the project. This is one
remake I really want to play.


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On Thu, 25 Sep 2025 10:50:36 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:


Well, obviously this post wasn't meant for this newsgroup. I'm not
sure how I managed to fuck this up this time. Usually, I get the
'how'; I don't notice I'm in the wrong newsgroup when I hit 'new
message'. But not this time.

Oh well, apologies to all. Once again, I'll have the offending party
flogged for the error... although I think they may be starting to
enjoy it, what with the frequency of these errors happening. ;-)


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On 9/25/2025 5:53 PM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

On Thu, 25 Sep 2025 10:50:36 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:

Well, obviously this post wasn't meant for this newsgroup. I'm not
sure how I managed to fuck this up this time. Usually, I get the
'how'; I don't notice I'm in the wrong newsgroup when I hit 'new
message'. But not this time.

Oh well, apologies to all. Once again, I'll have the offending party
flogged for the error... although I think they may be starting to
enjoy it, what with the frequency of these errors happening. ;-)

I was wondering...
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