Metroid Prime Remastered out on Switch... today (Digital, physical 22nd of Feb)

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curl-6 said:

Pemalite said:

I tend to attribute remakes with an entire engine swap.

But there is a significant increase in texture detail and new geometric complexity in many scenes.

It could be an engine swap; can't find any word on that yet, but at the very least, even if its still using the same in-house engine, said engine has most likely undergone massive changes since 2002.

Honestly, its the lighting  and materials that stands out more than the textures and geometry to me, they've been completely overhauled to Switch standards which is a massive step up from the much older fixed function model on Gamecube.

It's using Unreal Engine 4 apparently