NieR Replicant | Upgrade Announcement

Square Enix has announced that NieR Replicant ver.122474487139… would be coming to PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC via Steam. The game is an upgraded version of NieR Replicant which released in Japan in 2010 on PlayStation 3. The Xbox 360 version of the game titled NieR Gestalt featured a different protagonist and released in Japan in 2010. The international release of the game was based on NieR Gestalt.

You can check out the game’s teaser trailer below.

 

Square Enix describes the upgraded version as follows:

In the year of the 10th anniversary of NieR, we are announcing that the cult classic third-person action-RPG NieR Replicant, is to be rebuilt for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (STEAM) as NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139…

NieR Replicant is the prequel of the critically acclaimed success NieR:Automata.

NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139… invites players into a dark, apocalyptic world as they join a brother’s captivating quest to cure his sister of a deadly disease – a quest which will in turn make them question everything.

Developed in collaboration with Toylogic, NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139… brings together an all-star team including acclaimed director, YOKO TARO (Drakengard / NieR:Automata), composer Keiichi Okabe (TEKKEN / Drakengard / NieR:Automata), and producer Yosuke Saito (DRAGON QUEST X / NieR:Automata).

The upgraded version of the game is developed by Toylogic and published by Square Enix. Takahisa Taura, NieR:Automata‘s senior game designer, is working on the game.

The game will be fully-voiced with newly recorded voiceovers. It will also have a rerecorded soundtrack, and new tracks, by Keiichi Okabe.

NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139… is coming to PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC via Steam. You can check out its teaser website HERE.

Patrick Aguda
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