Chances are you’ve never heard of it, or at least haven’t thought about it in years: PowerSlave. Or uhh, Exhumed actually, because with that name the cult shooter from the mid 90s was sold in Europe. It was released in 1996 for Sega Saturn, PlayStation and MS-DOS. An unofficial remake of the MS-DOS version titled Powerslave EX was already released in 2015, but PowerSlave Exhumed is an official one.
PowerSlave Exhumed is made by Nightdive Studios, the developer behind the previously released Doom 64 and Shadow Man and the unreleased System Shock remake. This shooter won’t be a big remake with a 4K resolution and ray tracing, but it won’t be a simple port either. For example, there will be widescreen support, just like modern gamepad support (controllers), SMAA anti-aliasing, anisotropic texture filtering and achievements.
According to Nightdive, the port is made by merging (and polishing here and there) two versions of the classic, those from the Saturn and PlayStation. In case you didn’t know what PowerSlave or Exhumed was: a cult shooter in which you make Egypt unsafe by letting it arrange bullets. According to many, the game was ahead of its time because it combined the gameplay of a first-person shooter with unique pitfalls, puzzles and first-person platforming. We don’t know much about the new port: it will in any case come to PC (a GOG page has been created), but the other platforms are still unknown. Also do not know the release date.
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