Remedy is dismantling an engine that will be used not only in Alan Wake 2

Whenever it comes to projects planned by the Finnish studio Remedy, the proprietary Northlight engine is mentioned at least in passing. The reason is simply that Northlight supports the vast majority of games currently being developed by the Finnish studio.. In particular, we are talking about titles. Alan Wake 2, Remake of Max Payne 1 and 2, Control 2 and the collaborative world of Control, tentatively titled Condor. At the same time, it can be assumed that Northlight will be used in the more distant future. That is why a video was released in which Remedy employees zoom in on the engine.

The video naturally includes a wide range of professional and technical terms, as the creators of the engine and the members of the team responsible for Northlight not only work closely with other divisions of the company, which leads to the creation of even better games, but also with workflows, technological changes and requirements, physics or working with tools. In short, this is a digestible, albeit artfully crafted, demonstration. what it looks like when a game studio takes care of its own technologies for years.

Statements from Remedy employees then alternate footage from previously released games using Northlighti.e. from the first part Control And Quantum Rift. Among them, we can also include two single-player campaigns of predominantly multiplayer shooters CrossfireX and Crossfire HD from the Korean company Smilegate. Alan Wake Remastered and the original can also be seen in the video Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Paynebut both of these games are based on older technology that predates the Northlight engine we know today.

Unfortunately, there were no new footage from Remedy’s upcoming games., but we can see an interesting test scene in the video with the Northlight engine. For obvious reasons, it doesn’t offer any eye-popping or graphically advanced spectacle, but it’s interesting it is quite obvious that the action takes place on the streets of New York, as evidenced, for example, by the display names of some objects on the stage. This also means that you can’t tell which game these objects are from.

Alan Wake 2 is the most likely as it is the closest to completion, and some of the concepts released so far suggest that the streets of the famous American city will be used in one way or another in a full-fledged continuation of the story by writer Alan Wake. But let’s not forget that New York is also the setting for the first and second parts of the Max Payne trilogy, and in it we find the building of the Oldest House, the setting of the Control series. In addition, the player character’s movements in the scene are most reminiscent of Control’s protagonist Jesse Faden. Therefore, we recommend that you take appropriate pictures as a curiosity, and not as an example of a particular place.where we will definitely look into some of the aforementioned games.

Alan Wake 2which will be released on all platforms by the publishing division of Epic Games, will be released later this year on PC (Epic Games Store), Xbox Series X|S and PlayStation 5. Control 2 and Project Condor, created in collaboration with 505 Games, do not yet have a set release date. The same applies to the Max Payne 1 and 2 remakes that will be published by Rockstar Games. At Remedy, they are also working on a joint free-to-play game tentatively titled Vanguard, but it uses Epic’s Unreal engine, not Northlight, and is the only one that will also be released on mobile thanks to the Chinese. Tencent.