Remedy Entertainment, responsible for games like Control and Alan Wake 2 (which, by the way, is one of the candidates for GOTY 2023), has announced that one of its projects in development is going to receive a profound reboot of its formula: it is about Codename Vanguarda free-to-play which has been in production for some time together with the Chinese giant Tencent.
The company has announced that Vanguard is going to restart almost completely, so that even the name is going to be changed to “Kestrel”. That is one of its most important novelties, although so is the radical change in its proposal: from gaming as a free service, free-to-play, it becomes a game premium with a “strong cooperative multiplayer component.”
Kestrel will have a more Remedy touch
“The restart occurs when the project has reached the end of its proof of concept phase and after Remedy and Tencent had time to evaluate the status of the project and their next steps,” the company says in a statement. In that text they also explain that part of the team that was developing it become part of other projects of Remedy, although the core of the studio will remain to “lean more on Remedy’s core strengths and will build on many of the features, resources and themes already designed for Vanguard“.
