3D Realms has just announced a remaster of the crime-themed first-person shooter that came out in 1999, Kingpin: Life of Crime. According to the developers, Kingpin: Reloaded will bring new life to the Quake II engine classic.
The game will support 4K resolution, ultrawide monitors, and improved graphics in Enhanced Mode. Furthermore, it will have a Classic Mode for all purists out there. Controller support will also make the game more accessible for anyone who wants to explore the depths of Kingpin’s depravity. In addition, Kingpin Reloaded will have even more improvements, like a new quest and conversation systems.
Kingpin’s immersive sim elements will allow the Thug to recruit other gangsters with a conversation system. Players can increase the Thug’s influence through multiple hub-based missions. Players can also run with the gang on a violent warpath with upgradeable weapons including Tommy guns, bazookas, and more.
The game will have location-based damage, as well as a “No Violence” game mode.
In order to showcase the graphical improvements, 3D Realms released the following comparison screenshots. You can also find below the game’s announcement trailer.
Enjoy!
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GREAT news !! Hope that 3D Realm won’t f*ck up by censoring some of the content that is “inappropriate” in 2020, please don’t make it Kingpin REWOKED
Some of the slurs can be considered “offending” in 2020, that’s why i’m worried about censorship, not the graphic violence or anything else, i know it’s here to stay, they’ll add a No Violence mode anyway as stated
*wobbel* *wobbel*
This “remaster” looks like sweetFX with the bloom turned up
Memories.
“rebalanced and polished”
sure as heck needs that, to say the game was unbalanced and unpolished will be the understatement of the century. Probably the worst gunplay in any game ever.
You’re not kidding, this game had horrendous gunplay but jesus christ is it the only representation of 90s gangster rap we really have in Video Games. I love it and the same endlessly repeating Cypress Hill beats.
I remember people were unable to get by the first fight in the game immediately after you start back when it first came out.
“it the only representation of 90s gangster rap we really have in Video Games.”
All you had to do was follow the damn road CJ.
You’re right, I forgot about SA since I didn’t care for GTA around the time since I was to busy deep in a CS:GO addiction.
I had fond memory of this one
just played it through last week.
YES !!! That was a cool game. Now i only need a Heavy Metal FAKK 2 remaster to be happy in my life.
You read minds LOL, I have the same opinion on both of these games
And NOLF 1 & 2, Requiem Avenging Angel, Clive Barker’s Undying, Freedom Fighters, Hexen 2, Herectic 2, Outlaws, Sin……………….. OK i’ll never be happy in my life…
is the gog version of requiem fully playable or plagued with bugs and glitches that make it unplayable?
Man you deserve a medal HAHA, i tried every workaround possible and even considered downgrading to Windows 10 1607, i kept the game files, downloading the fix right now !!
About Terminator Skynet, according to the screen below from PCGW, it support mouse look/aim.
Requiem is a mess whatever version you got, it has 2 renderers, D3D has better framerate, color depth and has good aspect ratio for 16/9 but it has serious game breaking bugs, the 3DFX renderer on the other side has frame pacing issues, limited framerate, weaker colors and stretched aspect ratio, i suggest you to switch between the 2 renderers and save very often, to set 1080p res, use dgVoodoo, but set your keyboard keys before that, as dgvoodoo makes the menu sluggish and difficult to navigate, also toggle the console to change FoV (FOV XX) don’t go over 90, it will just reset to default, so yeah it’s a mess https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/e88b184e8df364475eb99e7f399a156422c5ce486cb156f309b99190e6c7f823.png
why did i get a medal? Also speaking of mouse aim, eradicator has mouse aim, if you increase the resolution so you can see wtf you are looking at, its a decent game.
For the news about Powerslave mouse fix, anyone who share good news deserves a medal HAHA. Eradicator never got a source port, i hope someday it will
if you raise the resolution for eradicator it looks and runs fine, but as it is from gog it runs at a horrible resolution.
320×200, that hurts lol
raise it
i’ll give it a try tomorrow
if you want some other good news the darkforces port, you know the one, there is a fix somewhere that added the missing weapons.
Saw that a couple of months ago in a steam guide, a d3d9.dll file that adds the missing weapons, but thanks anyway, don’t hesitate to share news man, such a shame that DarkXl was abandoned, when you see the potential it has, it saddens me AF…
the 3DFX exe is hardcoded to run at locked 60 fps, tried NGlide and DGVoodoo and the framepacing issues are still there, but the only real problem i have with the 3DFX renderer is the stretched aspect ratio, this alone made play it mostly with D3D, i only switch to Glide when there are game breaking bugs (doors not opening, script not triggering…)
also important noting that someone added mouse support to the pc version of powerslave. Hmm does skynet have mouse aiming? After terminator resistance i want to try it.
These are my notes for SkyNET. It’s been awhile. Good luck:
Run Future Shock through SkyNET in DOSBox for higher resolution:
Copy Future Shock to SkyNET directory.
Run Setup to configure sound.
SkyNET:
Run Setup to configure sound.
Edit INSTALL.DAT (keep spaces before and after):
[skynet]
fspath=.Shock
installpath=C:
sourcepath=C:
type=net_large
Rename SkyNetNoCD.exe to SkyNET.exe and overwrite original.
Create files in SkyNETGamedata folder:
begin.vid
end.vid
logo.vid
start.vid
virtual1.vid
virtual2.vid
virtual3.vid
virtual4.vid
Run SkyNet.exe
Future Shock standalone in DOSBox:
Run Setup.
Edit Install.DAT:
sourcepath=C:
shock_installpath=C:
shock_installtype=shock_full
I forgot dozens of games actually, and yes The Wheel of Time deserves a remaster too !!
Undying is perfectly playable at 1080p/4K with unlocked framerate and fixed FoV/aspect ratio, there’s some texture packs available too
Go to the game’s PCGW page, and follow the steps for every aspect, and you’ll get it running like a charm, here’s a screen i just made https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/a6081db3c52a171af9070381e52c6515379e44484135b0c7efaf811271ecc35b.png
Enjoy^^ Let me know if you need help to get it running
Oh, those memories! Such spooky maps this game had. I still remember the moment when those two eyes opened in front of me, because i almost shat my pants… 🙂
Requiem Avenging Angel, I would KILL for that REMASTER. oh my !!!
Considering that the game doesn’t even have a modding community, a remaster is unlikely, the devs are dead, the publisher is dead, i don’t even know if the source code still exists, bummer…
I’d rather have new good FPS games, but I guess that’s nearly impossible nowadays .
Prey 2017, Dishonored, Far Cry 5, Titanfall 2… Are great “new school” shooters, I think it’s more likely than ever in the past decade, the gimmicky rechargeable health/shaking camera on sprint/Ultra linear boring level design seems like dying, and that’s good news !!
The only good one there is Titanfall 2, Dishonored isn’t even a shooter.
Matter of taste dude, i enjoyed all of them even tho i’m a die hard old school FPS fan, you’re right about Dishonored, it’s a sim, so it can be a shooter, depends on player style, even Kingpin is considered by many people as an immersive sim rather than a shooter.
IF you’re about new old school shooters, there are many many of them like never before in the past decade, Ion Fury, Amid Evil, Doom 2016, Dusk…
Doom 2016 is a Painkiller clone and Painkiller did it better with less gimmicks, it has nothing old school about it.
I always seen Doom 2016 as Doom X Quake 3 X Brutal Doom rather than Painkiller which is more Serious Sam, great game by the way, and it aged really well, mostly
Was I the only one to absolutely adore the first SOLDIERS OF FORTUNE game… with its gory ‘ghoul’ engine, that allowed 26 different areas of dismemberment… ?
I loved the 1st SoF, i replayed it when it was released on GOG and i still consider it a very good shooter, definitely better than SoF2 which is rushed and unpolished, just imagine if Raven Software is still developing big budget games instead of being CoD’s slaves…
Kingpin had some great multiplayer…. I remember playing it with 3 buds, on a lan, in my bedroom…
I still remember those levels… the grenade launcher.. the bazooka… soooooo good!
Full complete remastered old games… OR recent titles full of microtransactions and other craap… I choose the older titles…
NOLF 1 & 2 are the most criminally overlooked and forgotten FPS ever.
What a shame and incredible waste to have buried this franchise.
The potential was limitless.
Nightdive almost got the rights, almost… unfortunately, i can’t count how much i replayed the series including Contract Jack which is really inferior but decent, a really unique series, never had that vibe in any other game, there’s a new fix for NOLF1 that fixes almost all the issues on modern systems, it’s called NOLF Modernizer, give it a try if you didn’t
Again, a new patch? Wow, how many patches this game needs to run perfectly? lol Some months ago, I downloaded the revival versions of NOLF 1 & 2 already. You can get it for free, if you’re interested. I thought they were already patched enough, but maybe I also need the modernizer ? And you’re right, we never got that vibe again, which is really a mystery to me. It was obviously inspired by Austin Powers, which was itself quite inspired a lot by James Bond movies…
Modernizer fixes all the issues in one 5mb package, making it the definitive version of NOLF, no need to use any other fix, no need to use 3rd party tools to lock the framerate and fix jerky mouse movement at high polling rate, just copy the files to the game’s location (any version Retail or Revival) and don’t forget to activate the mod in the game’s launcher (“Advanced”, and then “Customize”. Simply “Add” the Modernizer.rez file, and check “Always load these rez files”, then click “Ok”, and launch the game) here’s the fixes from the mod’s page :
– Fixes slowdown with some UI elements (such as looking down scope, or picking items up)
– HUD scaling options for most HUD elements
– Replaced mouse input code for a more responsive experience
– Optional framerate cap to 60fps
– Optional 4:3 mode for cutscenes
– New Jukebox menu in Options
– Fixed a bug with defusing bombs and activating some switches
– Added `NoRawInput` to disable mouse raw input
– Fixed missing continue button on mission summary screen
– Improved loading screen time (…that I broke, oops!)
– Fixed some invisible impassible geometry.
– Added a experimental developer console, can be toggled on/off with tilde. (`~`)
– Fixed a crash in the weapons hotkey screen.
Here’s what I use:
Files
Undying Texture Patch 1
Undying Texture Updater 128
Undying Widescreen Fix 1.00
Steps
Install official texture patch.
Run Texture Updater 128.
Copy UndyingShellPC.u to UndyingSystem (backup original).
Edit User.ini
DesiredFOV=107
DefaultFOV=107
Heavy Meral FAKK 2 remaster would be insane! It is a shame we don’t have a new reboot by now or a remake in the new engine tech we have.
Remaster yes. Remake or Reboot BIG NO !!!
Remember that this is 2020 and we have SJW cancer in gaming.
It’s great to see a few people on here have love for that game and want to see it make a return.
I still have my copy: https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/515328aa7c36c928c11c44931160d3c1da75b3f57ad4a7e23807053f6f55a4df.jpg
Very good condition for a 2000 CD-BOX 🙂
Kingpin probably had one of the most ‘hardcore’ dialogs ever…
With sentences like ‘hey, you rotten pus sies licker !’, we couldn’t go wrong… 🙂
I remember messing with this a bit back in the day, but never really progressed far.
Outraged about the outrage about the outrage about the outrage. You’ve gone full outrage-tard.
??? Reset era got the devs to censor the game, control devs gave a interview ama to reset era, reset era bans anyone who says something positive about the guy who made kingdom come deliverance and cyberpunk 2077.
This isnt about outrage, its about beating the crap out of those lunatics INSTEAD of being over backwards to them. Everyone should be outraged that devs bend over those loons.
They didn’t censor the game though, everything that was supposedly censored is still in the game because 3DRealms told them to f*ck off basically.
Who the hell cares. I don’t care what ResetERA does, I don’t pay attention to what they do, and the only time I hear anything about them is either on this website or in this websites discord by people who are obsessed over it. I don’t care about this supposed culture fight happening, it doesn’t affect me in any way, shape, or form. Oh man, I can’t see “f*g” in a video game any more.
I can still how ever call every single one of my friends it freely whenever I choose. You let these people rule over your lives in such a strange way. They’re in your headspace, and it’s kind of funny to me.
More developers are telling these people to shove it finally and realize the effect of listening to them, which is getting you people mad, and for what ever it’s worth. Good.
they did remove the name of a mapper form outside the map and backtracked on the lotion. What you mean who cares what reeeeeeset era says, all the leaks appear there, industry insiders go there, developers go there and they have confirmed dev under their name there are ea devs in there. control devs went to reset era. They do care. They get people fired and organize mob campaigns and censore games.
“More developers are telling these people to shove it ”
Where? Gears 5 has like 28 gay flags, control went there and talked to them, the outer soyworlds is written by crazy feminists with androgenous bodies and shaved neon haircuts and every man in that game is weak while every woman is tough. Cyberpunk removed gender, so did far cry new dawn, encased and vampire masquarade bloodlines 2 has pronouns. gears of war is no longer many the developer said they nerfed it on purpusely, last of us 2 stars a lesbian and has a trans character and the creator said the more people whine about it the more progressive stuff he is gonna put in it. The ceo of arkane listened to anita sarkessian this is why dishonored 2 was the way it was. Red dead redemption 2 is very progressive black cowboys, women cowboys and bounty hunters, most men are stupid. A hat in time has a gay and a trans flag in it. Dude wtf you talking about?
even mortal combat is ccked covering up the female characters while uncovering the male characters, having woke endings about wakanda and saying “i cant wake about white people becoming woke” removing the ok signs because “nazhzis” get real dude. Everyone is bending over backward to them even franchises made to offend like mortal kombat. More like mortal Cuckbat…. no artistic integrity.
hey at least they didnt give a interview to reset era…who bans anyone who say something good for cyberpunk 2077.
We have to patch the game ourselves to restore the so-called “offensive” jokes.
F*ck SJWs.
Damn that game was hilarious.
I learned so many new insults back in high school, thanks to Kingpin.
And the French version was 10 times more offensive than the English one.?
What a great game back then – not sure it would hold up today. And im damn sure that im not getting it when its looking like that, it looks like all they did was run it through an upsampler – still blurry and blocky looking. More effort, more buys…