Revisiting Another World

#1

http://www.edge-online.co.uk/archives/2006/04/revisiting_anot_1.php

Revisiting Another World It’s been some 15 years since that first dark and stormy night when Lester Chaykin’s Ferrari skidded across players’ screens and pulled them unwittingly into Another World, a scene subsequently repeated countless times across nearly as many platforms. More recently, the game has seen several efforts to downscale the experience for portable play from GBA to GP32 to mobile phone, but now creator Eric Chahi is set to personally bring it back up to size.

On April 14th, Chahi will release an enhanced remastered version of Another World, capable of running at high resolutions up to 1280x800 and with newer more richly detailed backgrounds, giving old fans a chance to revisit the world in a new light, and allowing new players to experience both the ecstacy of its serenity and uniquely rhythmic adventuring, and of course the agony of its signature repeat sudden deaths.

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“It’s a collector’s re-issue, not a remake,” says Chahi, “When I created Another World I was already thinking that one day it would be able to run on higher end computers. The idea was to create something that respected the original release, so the enhanced backgrounds are in harmony with the flat polygon animations. And, of course, the game in its original 16 color form will be available too.”

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The release of the updated Another World – available as a free shareware version and a full version priced somewhere in the neighborhood of a Live Arcade game – will be accompanied by the launch of an official website on the birth and history of the project, and will also serve as a portal to information on and downloads of Chahi’s other (and forthcoming) work. An English version of the site is due shortly, but in the meantime the precursor site can be seen in its original French at anotherworld.fr.

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#2

God knows how many times I played that game , it was amazing. I wish they rerelease flashback too though. It was hands down one of the best games I have ever played.

#3

Nice,

I’ll have to dig the old floppy out and play the original when I get home tonight.

(Hmm… I wonder where I put my DOS mouse drivers…)

#4

My god, this was only one of the best games out there! And despite (because of?) the utter lack of dialogue, it was one of the few games that actually made an emotional impact on me.

I’d love to see an update to Flashback as well. Fade to Black, too (yes, I thought that game rocked almost as hard as the first two).

#5

Wow! This has made my day! Another World and (particularly) Flashback are two of the greatest games EVER! I still occasionally play them! They were milestones! Amazing visuals, fantastic gameplay and engrossing storylines. This is really great news!

#6

This is great. Another World, Flashback and Fade to Black were some of my faourite games. I still play Flashback from time to time thanks to DosBox.

Bob

#7

no dialogue!?

Mai-tsu-ru-ba!

#8

Please god let them re-release Flashback as well… pleeeeease! Another World, Flashback and Fade To Black are still among the best games I’ve played… I want to play them again :smiley:

#9

seriously sweet … I really enjoyed playing them both (I think I played flashback on my sega genesis at 1st, that possible ?)

anways, yeah release it all in high-def :smiley:

#10

Finally!! Thanks for sharing things like that!
I was playng it on gameboy advance.

#11

ah but how, do you need the flash memory peripheral?

#12

Yes Para… of course you need a flash card. http://www.foxysofts.com/index.php
Or you can use an emulator like visualboy…

#13

thanx for that i may well purchase one of those.

#14

Geez… reminds me of when i was little, used to play those on my Atari 520 ST… Classics ! Another World was such a mind-blower when it came out !
I have a whole list of old games i’d like to see revisited and re-released, come to think of it… but then i would not have any time left for work :slight_smile:
Thanks for the link.

mouj

#15

Great news indeed. That was the first game I played with a soundblaster card, and the sound blew me away. (I was used to that annoying beep from the onboard computer speaker)

#16

I played it lots on the Amiga. Wasn’t this an Amiga originated game?

#17

that beep was most annoying, ouch

#18

Not sure, I think Flashback was released on the Sega Megadrive (the 16bit system, not sure if that’s the genesis in the rest of the world :D). It was also released on the SNES, not sure about other systems. Damnit now I want to play it so bad :cry:

#19

I may be wrong but I thought it was originally released for Amiga and Atari ST and maybe PC. I think the console ports came later.

#20

Affirmative. I had this on a really, really old PC (with an asswhopping 7 megabytes of Hard Drive space!!) and then it came out on Sega.

BTW, the Sega Genesis and the MegaDrive were the same machines.