STAR WARS™: Dark Forces Remaster (PS5)

The remastered lighting and textures through the KEX engine make those old Coruscant levels feel genuinely moody instead of just dated. I’ve already sunk three hours in and the 60fps on PS5 makes the blaster fire feel buttery smooth. Nightdive really nailed bringing this classic forward.

I was a bit worried the old-school level design might feel clunky, but the KEX engine remaster makes the controls incredibly responsive on PS5. The lighting and texture upgrades really bring those classic corridors to life without losing the original feel.

It’s genuinely wild how smooth this remaster runs on PS5—the lighting and texture work on the old 1995 levels feels like a proper glow-up, not just a lazy port. I’m about six hours in and the frame rate has been rock solid the whole time, which is exactly what you want with all those firefights and