92 PCWorld JULY 2020FEATURE 11 CLASSIC GAMES THAT DESERVE A REMAKE
story that holds up surprisingly well, and
someone should work on a remake. Who? I
have no idea, but the series is owned by
Take-Two, and the impending Mafia remake
indicates that someone over there is at least
aware of this trend, so...give it to someone.
Stick Sam Lake’s face onto a new body, pull
the big “Bullet Time” lever, and it’ll be just in
time for The Matrix to come back in style.- MEDAL OF HONOR:
ALLIED ASSAULT
Respawn is reviving the Medal of Honor name
with the VR-exclusive Medal of Honor: Above
and Beyond (go.pcworld.com/abyd) later
this year. Maybe it’ll be good.
But I’d love to see a modern take on
Medal of Honor: Allied Assault and its
Spearhead expansion (go.pcworld.com/
spxp). While I admire that Battlefield V (go.
pcworld.com/btfv) tried to focus on lesser-
known stories of World War II, both in an
effort to broaden people’s understanding of
the conflict and to alleviate the “Oh, another
World War II shooter” fatigue...well, I’ve got
a soft spot for my Band of Brothers and Saving
Private Ryan remakes.
In Medal of Honor canon, that was Allied
Assault and Spearhead. Give me that fake
Tom Hanks leading me up Omaha Beach.
Give me Normandy hedgerows and the chilly
foxholes of Bastogne. And then give it to me
with all the bells and whistles that EA’s
modern Frostbite engine can offer, because
actual Allied Assault has not aged very well.- RIVEN
Cyan has remade Myst three times, with
realMyst, Myst: Masterpiece Edition, and
realMyst: Masterpiece Edition (go.pcworld.
com/mted). It has
never remade Riven
(go.pcworld.com/
rivn), despite Riven
being the superior
game.
And perhaps
we’ll never see a
truly official Riven
remake. I know in
the past Cyan has
said that Riven is
simply too large to - get the realMyst