MercurySteam, the Spanish developer behind Metroid Dread, has stealth-released a remastered version of its first video game, 2004’s action-adventure Scrapland.
Initially titled American McGee Presents: Scrapland – although the Alice: Madness Returns creator would later admit to being little more than a “marketing tool” – Scrapland is set on a world called Chimera, populated entirely by robots and with a “no humans allowed” policy.
Players primarily control a robot named D-Tritus, a newcomer to Chimera who becomes entangled in solving a series of murders that seem to have been committed by a human. There are 15 different characters to control throughout the game though, and 140+ missions.
Aside from a complex single-player story, the game also offers multiplayer spaceship racing and combat. MercurySteam describes the mode as “an intense combination of races and battles still unmatched in the genre. Create your games or join others, on a local network or online.”
In a blog post announcing the remaster, MercurySteam says the enhanced edition has been overhauled with “4K resolution, high-res textures by AI upscaling; enhanced illumination and lightmaps; new servers to power the multiplayer experience with your friends; gamepad support, and many, many more goodies!”
