Retro Recipes was able to remaster some old Alien Breed Tower Assault (1994) footage.
"Alien Breed: Tower Assault" is the last of Team17's top-view 4-way-scrolling Alien Breed games, before they went on to continue the series in first-person 3D-view. It is a little more refined than the previous games in the franchise, which includes having fancy 3D rendered intro and cut scenes like it had just become mandatory for all those fancy PC games of the 1990s.
This video by Retro Recipes popped up just yesterday, in which the intro sequence of Tower Assault can be seen in stunning 4K quality. It's 90s' 3D, so the higher resolution doesn't necessarily match the quality of the modeling and textures, but nonetheless this is quite nice to see. But, most importantly, this isn't a conversion, remake, AI-upscaling or anything - it's the actual LightWave 3D project files, found on Team17's actual development machine (an A4000), just re-rendered in 4K.
It's always great to see the original developer's work preserved, and re-examined decades later. On top of the nostalgia, oftentimes interesting details, or forgotten features can be found. Program source code can be adapted to modern systems, or emulators can be used, but in this case, part of "Alien Breed: Tower Assault" just got better with time, (apparently) without any modifications.
Anyway - see for yourself:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/eIMDD25gnjI
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