PowerSlave Exhumed is a port of the classic first-person shooter of the mid-90s.
This is from Nightdive Studios, the developer behind the recent releases of Doom 64, Shadow Man, and the upcoming new release of System Shock. The trailer below:
PowerSlave was first released in 1996 on Sega Saturn, and at that time it featured a unique blend of traps, puzzle solving and first person platforming. It was a precursor to the likes of Nintendo Metroid Prime.
John Lineman of Digital Foundry is a huge fan – wrote about “FPS console ahead of its timeIn 2018, he shot his video below:
Our full DF Retro video coverage of this great game, its various versions – and even a preview for the PC PowerSlave EX, a port of the console version that ended up being removed for legal reasons.
Nightdive said that this new version of PowerSlave blends the Saturn and PSone versions of the Lobotomy shooter, known as Exhumed in Europe.
Here is the official announcement of this new port:
Destination: The ancient Egyptian city of Karnak. Foreign forces with fearsome powers cut off the once thriving community from any outside contact. As a covert ops specialist, you have been trained in all forms of emergencies. However, nothing can prepare you, for the nightmare you are about to enter…”
New features include widescreen/HD, modern gamepad support, SMAA anti-aliasing, anisotropic texture filtering, and achievements. Nightdive said PowerSlave Exhumed is “two versions of the original game combined to offer the best of both worlds.”
Unannounced platforms, although we know PowerSlave Exhumed is coming to PC (there is a file Gog page). There is no release date.
