KOTOR fans, get ready for a treat. Poem Studios is currently working on a fan remake/reboot of Knights of the Old Republic in Unreal Engine 4. According to the team, this game will be 100% free, will be called Apeiron, and is described as a remake and remastering of the original game with added content, new worlds, missions, HUD, inventory, items, and compainions.
Now while the team claimed that it is allowed to make the game if they release it for free, we are pretty sure that Disney will send them a C&D letter if they feel like it. After all, we’ve seen this happening in a lot of free fan remakes for a number of games.
Peom Studios has released the first WIP screenshots for Apeiron that can be viewed below.
It will be interesting to see whether the team will be able to finish this project, and whether Disney will allow it.
Enjoy and stay tuned for more!
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This sounds absolutely amazing, best of luck to Poem Studios!
It is Disney, of course it is going to be shutdown.
Can’t go messing around with that bloody mice IPs.
They very well know it will get shutdown. Its more for publicity and recognition.
Has even 1 of these remakes taken on by an unaffiliated studio or people ever been completed?
Valve allowed them to make Black Mesa 🙂
Would probably be one of the easier games to “remaster”. Why? Cus the game is already perfect as far as writing, characters, voice acting.
The only thing that was mediocre in KOTOR was combat so it is not like people would be that upset if it was not “all world”. Unfortunately we all know this will get shut down by Disney/EA and EA will probably have Bioware do this after Mass Effect: Andromeda is a cataclysmic failure. They will need something for that company to do as it fades into obscurity and they shut down the failure that is SWTOR. One last money grab.
The new Bioware which includes hardly any of the people that made their good games, will screw it up. Prob add wookie romances, robot romances (you can hit on robots in SWTOR, and no I am not kidding) and politically correct BS to the game. Also new characters/quests written by complete rejects and freaks they hired from tumblr so they could boast about how progressive they are, who cannot write an interesting or good character if their life depended on it and are more concerned with inserting their BS agendas into games.
Also they will give Bastila a male facial structure and make her as homely as possible so they do not offend any of the 5 whales that play their games. All the guys will be “hot” though” cus “it is 2016” and gender is not a social construct and we do not cry if a guy has 6 pack abs in a game. That pretty much contradicts their own BS though, but who cares right? It is 2016.
You guys need to open it in full screen. There’s some sheetty made environments with minimum details, like 2 tables and 3 chairs in an empty room, and all this beauty is already called alpha for some reason.
It took Black Mesa team 8 years to remake a shooter, and we’re talking about a RPG here, with hubs, quests, dialogues, combat system, leveling, and lots of other things.
Yeah, I seriously don’t think they can pull it off.
These things are a mere ploy for these guys to get free press and attention and to have something for their resumé…
BAKA !!! You should have just kept quiet until it was finished and just released it : ( when will these fan remakers learn
A whole remake? See you in 2022.
Generic U4 sci-fi environment….
Why do these guys announce this stuff in pre-alpha? If they’re serious about it, they should just develop it secretly and only release once it’s done, otherwise there’s a huge risk of a DMCA.
Why not just go to Disney and ask permission to remake it? Why on earth are you announcing this to the world? You already made a development so you clearly have the skills to remake the game. Pitch it to Disney for crying out loud. Let them oversee the project and then offer to pay for the development yourself so that they have no costs incurred. Then you could use the actual name and not have to release it for free. God these people are stupid.