Well, out of all of the notable shooters and action games from yesteryear to receive remakes or remasters, here’s one we didn’t see coming: Kingpin: Life of Crime. First released in 1999 by Interplay and developers Xatrix Entertainment, Kingpin boasted a unique setting that mixed art deco and modern technology, more realistic and graphic violence (for the time, anyway), and a soundtrack provided by Cypress Hill, who also contributed to some of the voice acting. Unfortunately, it was also the first high-profile shooter to be released after the Columbine massacre, which not only led to certain retailers refusing to stock the game, but also congressmen calling for the game’s cancellation. But now it’s coming back as Kingpin: Reloaded, so current generations can see what all the fuss was about.
The Kingpin (Wilson Fisk) is a fictional supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.The character was created by Stan Lee and John Romita Sr., and first appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man #50 (cover-dated July 1967). One of the most feared, dangerous and powerful crime lords in the Marvel Universe by typically holding the position of New York City's crime.
3D Realms revealed the remaster today as a special announcement for PAX South, and you can check out the reveal trailer below. The game will come with Classic and Enhanced modes, 4K 60 FPS gameplay, re-balancing, ultrawide support, and even a new quest system. So if the rise to the top of the criminal underworld still looks a little rough around the edges, developers Slipgate Ironworks are still making sure that this is quite the enhancement. Kingpin: Reloaded is due out later this year for all major platforms, so let’s see if it can earn this second shot at glory.
Kingpin: Life of Crime is being remastered with 3D Realms recently announced Kingpin: Reloaded bringing new life to the Quake II engine classic.
Originally created by Xatrix Entertainment and published by Interplay Entertainment back in 1999, it's being given a fresh look by Slipgate Ironworks with 3D Realms publishing who will be enhancing it with a new quest system, Ultrawide and 4k Support, classic and enhanced modes, controller support, a no violence mode (but all the profanity stays), multiplayer and more.
It was announced earlier this month, with a release due this year but we've only today got confirmation for Linux. I managed to speak to a rep from 3D Realms, who didn't beat around the bush in giving me an answer with 'In regards to your question, the answer is YES! Kingpin will be on Linux as well.'.
Check out the reveal trailer below:
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Truthfully, I never played the original. I had heard of it but I was only about 10 at the time, this was back in 1999 so I was probably busy playing Total Annihilation as one of the few full games I actually owned then on PC (I had a ton of Amiga stuff though…). So for me, remasters like this are really great to see.
There's already a Steam page up which you can follow it on.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.