¿Rremember when Reubs created a more modern version of the classic The Simpsons: Hit & Run in just one week? Well the genius is back and has much more ambitious goals for himself Project.
The original video from August 2021 was a concept improvised with various assets and editors of third parties in which only the first mission was playable. But it was cool, so cool that the designer of the original game said at the time that it was an “impressive work”, but more of a trick than any attempt to build a play complete.
Now according to Eurogamer, Reubs is back with much bigger plans. He wants to rebuild the entire game in Unreal Engine 5. And make the game truly open world (the original loaded a few closed “levels”). Oh and also add online multiplayer.
That’s… a lot of work for one person.but as the ad in the video below explains, it’s not just for entertainmentbut he also does it as a sample of his own work creating a editor of dialogue:
maybe you be wondering regarding the legal implications of this. Well, in an attempt to dissuade the lawyersReubs says: “This is a new version for fans of the game for entertainment purposes, it will never be available for download. Please don’t bother my poor D mods!iscord to get a download link!”.
I have no idea how effective it will be, or if will still be the case by the time the project is finished (if it ever is finished), but since Reubs is promoting your own product during development, this might also be the marketing piece cleverest I’ve ever seen. Why buy ads when you can just… start remaking a much loved video game and get more than a million people to watch your videos?