Glossary
What is a remaster?
A remaster is an older game re-released with updated graphics, sound and support for modern hardware, but the same design underneath.
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How it works
A remaster keeps the original game's rules, maps and story and improves how it looks and runs, often adding quality-of-life features. A remake goes further and rebuilds the game from scratch. Definitive or anniversary editions are usually remasters.
On our best games of all time ranking, remasters and remakes count with the original game.
In the games we track
- Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition: a remaster of the 1999 game, released on 14 November 2019.
- Diablo II: Resurrected: Blizzard's remaster of Diablo II, launched on 23 September 2021.
Sources
- Wikipedia – Video game remaster, published by en.wikipedia.org
- Wikidata – Remaster (Q65963104), published by wikidata.org
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