The cult classic haunted house first-person shooter, Killing Time, is coming back to life with a Nightdive remaster after nearly three decades.
Killing Time is set in 1930s Maine and is a spookily comedic action that has an expansive, island-bound estate owned by a wealthy heiress. She has disappeared after trying to use an Ancient Egyptian water clock that is rumored to grant eternal life.
Killing Time Remaster
(Photo : Nightdive Studios / Screenshot taken from Steam)
Players, taking control of an Egyptology student, will be tasked with fending off the estate's many horrors that including killer clowns, demonic maids, and cleaver-wielding chefs. You will have to locate the water clock in question and end its evil influence on the estate and its inhabitants.
Killing Time takes you on a shooty, puzzly type of adventure across more than 45 seamlessly connected areas that feature hundreds of rooms.
The ghastly inhabitants of the cursed mansion are often created by turning FMV actors into sprites. Also, the game aims to give a thorough upgrade to the original title, according to Eurogamer.
The Nightdive remaster, known as Killing Time: Resurrected, promises to deliver toggleable high-resolution artwork and sprites for characters, upscaled environmental texturing, smoother gameplay, more responsive controls, and expansive control and key-bind settings.
Additionally, at least for PC users, the game features support for 4K resolutions and 144 FPS as well as anti-aliasing options and upgraded 2D screens and menu art.
The remaster also does not yet have an official release date but is said to be available for PC,PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, and Nintendo Switch when it launches.
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This comes as Nightdive is also working on some other projects that players are looking forward to, including a remaster of the 2002 squad-based survival horror shooter The Thing. This is based on the classic John Carpenter movie of the same name.
The developer working on Killing Time: Resurrected is Nightdive Studios, which is a subsidiary of Atari that is focused on video game remaster development. The game will also be published by multiplatform and modern game publisher Ziggurat Interactive, said HardcoreGamer.
Enhanced Visuals and Other Features
The two video game studios are known by players for bringing old titles into the modern age by preserving the essentials. Nightdive Studios recently brought a remake of 1994's System Shock to consoles.
The studio's remaster of Killing Time comes as the original game was met with positive feedback at the time that it was launched. It was also praised for its intense first-person shooting and stylish visuals and soundtrack.
Killing Time: Resurrected was first unveiled with an announcement trailer during the Guerilla Collective 2024 showcase. One of the key features of the title is giving players a chance for maximum efficiency by removing any loading time when traveling between areas.
The graphics feature a complete 360-degree view and the three-dimensional mansion offers a variety of areas, including outdoors, staircases, and intricately detailed ceilings and floors. There are also ghost stories that players should listen to.
These stories are the remembrances of the seven video-real apparitions and ghostly guests and they offer clues as to what past heinous acts happened within the cursed estate, according to Gematsu.
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