So you know we said that Nightdive Studios' rumoured remaster of The Thing would be its next project? Well, it seems like it might its next next one, instead. The team has just announced that it is collaborating with Ziggurat Interactive to launch Killing Time: Resurrected, a remaster of the classic comedy boomer shooter from the '90s.
Arriving on Switch later this year, the remaster boasts completely rehauled visuals, no load times, updated controls, and much more. Once described as “the bastard child of Doom and The 7th Guest", Killing Time takes place within a grand mansion in which you'll face off against a horde of supernatural horrors as you work to locate and destroy the mystical Egyptian Water-Clock.
Originally released on the 3DO, Killing Time was later ported to Windows and Mac, but this marks its first official launch in over 25 years.
Let's take a look at the key features, followed by some screens:
- Murder Around Every Corner: A fright-fest for the true aficionado of first-person corridor mayhem
- Ghost Stories: Listen to the remembrances of the 7 video-real apparitions and ghostly guests. They offer clues as to what past heinous acts actually transpired in the cursed mansion
- Stunning Graphics: Look up and down and turn around with a complete 360 view. The three-dimensional mansion offers outdoor areas, staircases, and intricately detailed ceilings and floors
- Keep Your Guard Up!: The original music makes this old haunt strongly inviting, eh? But beware. Every room, every passage in the estate holds dreadful dangers
- Max Efficiency: Enjoy continuous gameplay with no load time between areas
We'll have more information on Killing Time: Resurrected, including its projected release date, very soon. And don't worry, we're still confident The Thing will be announced during IGN Live later today.
What do you make of this one? Will you be adding it to your Switch library? Let us know your thoughts with a comment in the usual place.
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Im in. Never got to play this and it looks like my kinda dumb.
I never played PO'ed back in the day, but at least remembered it from its advertisements.
This one? Uh... I don't remember it at all.
Looks like the kind of thing that Civvie11 would suffer through, in-between the good boomshoots.
That's a weird coincidence. I was watching an old Game Sack episode on the 3DO the other day, which featured this game. Dave said something along the lines of 'I'd like to play this game on a current system with a decent framerate'. Several years later, out of nowhere, here it is...
Disappointing
Such a shame, that background art had to be from The Thing when you see side-by-side. Hopefully it is their next project, else someone in marketting department got the images wrong
Edit: Actually it says it will be announced at IGN Live Friday, looking at the schedule for that it doesnt start until 9pm UK time so there could very much still be hope for The Thing being announced tonight
Nightdive has been doing some very obscure stuff lately. And that's fantastic.
Significantly less interested in this property.
Awww man, I wanted The Thing. Maybe it will come soon.
Ziggy already did something with Killing Time apparently cause it was already on my spreadsheet of stuff they own.
Sifting Ziggy from Atari 5 gives me great mental duress on a daily basis.
We rented this one on the 3do back when, and i never finished it. Weird game.
Will be purchasing this.
OMG I played the crap out of this game back in the day. I wouldn't say it's great but it definitely scared the ***** out of me.
Seeing a lot of people disappointed with this one, and all I have to say to that is, don't sleep on Killing Time! It is shockingly good. No joke, the game is excellent.
That’s strange my watch has stopped!
Great game enjoyable cheesy story, can feel very repetitive in places eg the courtyard. Tho hearing the ducks bones crunch has you step on them is an interesting touch.
"stunning graphics" 🤣🤣🤣
This game is a hidden gem. Played through the original version and loved it. It's an interconnected world, sort of like Metroid Prime. Maybe a better description would be Resident Evil if it was a boomer shooter.
If you want to see what this actually looked like on the 3DO, alongside a humorous write-up, I highly recommend Mecha-Neko's playthrough of this on Super Adventures in Gaming:
https://superadventuresingaming.blogspot.com/2011/04/killing-time-3do.html
This is probably THE game I would have wanted Nightdive to tackle most, although I never would have dreamed it as a possibility. The news is almost too good to be true.
The technical showpiece of the 3DO with graphics that were incredible for a console in 1995 when it released, now unchained from that system and brought to it's full potential with smoothed over frame rate and controls. The ability to toggle enemies between 3DO sprites and PC FMV is a brilliant touch.
The 3DO was a beautiful piece of tech in the pre-Playstation era. It had an underrated library with some surprising gems that have been lost to time for too long. Between PO'ed, this and Limited Run's upcoming Gex trilogy remaster, I am so happy to finally be able to revisit my wonderful 3DO memories again!
Now if we could somehow get remasters of Escape From Monster Manor, Road Rash 3DO, Need for Speed 3DO, Wing Commander 3, the Shockwave series, Space Hulk, the first two Alone in the Dark's, Deathkeep, Slayer, Crash N' Burn, Quarantine, Immercenary and a remastered/translated Doctor Hauzer and Policenauts. We'd have a pretty good representation of the best of the 3DO system preserved for posterity and new generations of gamers to experience.
I never would have thought to even suggest those games as remaster/remake possibilities, but after this announcement... who knows?
Bless Nightdive!
............. YESSS!!!!!!! Nightdive you are doing unheard of things for those who love these path-less-travelled first person shooters. This game is one of my favorites of the genre, flaws and all. This is fantastic.
I have to say, I'm very impressed by this trailer given how much this game relies on FMV of real people. Did the original studio keep all of their original video masters from before they were crunched down to 3DO quality! If so then kudos not only to Nightdive but also to the original Studio 3DO.
Definitely one to have in the switch. Having 4k 120fps on PS5 will do the game no justice though considering the graphics can only be upgraded so much. I am afraid this will probably make it worse to play there.
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