The XIII remake has been remade with its latest update

Cel-shading and multiplayer return

Here’s a trailer of the new version:

The update also re-introduces online multiplayer for 2-13 players, a feature of the original game but not the remake.The news post on Steamalso promises that the update enhances the AI, reworks the HUD and revamps the sound design of the remake.

Watching the trailer above, the remake does look better than it did before, although I’m still surprised that so much effort has been put into revising a remake to a game that was just-okay when it was released nearly twenty years ago.

XIII, if you’ve never encountered it, is based on a 1980’s Belgian comic series about an amnesiac with the skills of a government agent attempting to discover their identity and in turn uncovering their involvement in a conspiracy to assassinate the US President. The original game was developed by Ubisoft, the same year they also released Prince Of Persia: Sands Of Time,Splinter Cell, and Beyond Good & Evil. A different time.