The 10 best video game remakes of all time

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We live in a golden era for video game remakes, with many studios re-examining their back catalogs to see which beloved titles from the past can be brought to modern hardware with a shiny new coat of paint. The hotly anticipated Resident Evil 4 Remake is just around the corner, with the recently released demo wowing fans of the original and new players alike.

So, with consoles bubbling over with remakes of all kinds, which are the ten best out there?

In 2002, the 1996 PlayStation/Saturn Resident Evil was already looking outdated, with subsequent sequels refining the formula and improving the graphics. Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami decided it was time to rework the S.T.A.R.S.team’s fateful trip into the Arklay mansion with this incredible GameCube re-imagining. The result combined stunning pre-rendered backdrops, high-detail character and enemy models, and a ridiculous amount of atmosphere, resulting in a title that still looks great twenty years on from its original release.

Although initially a GameCube exclusive, this has been re-released on modern platforms as Resident Evil HD and is often available at ridiculously cheap prices. If you want to take a trip back to the origins of Resident Evil the remake is the place to go, and even after so many other titles, this might still be the scariest Resident Evil game.

Sometimes it’s easy to greet remakes with a shrug, after all despite any modern bells and whistles this is still ultimately a game you’ve played before. Not so in the case of Live A Live, which brings an ultra-obscure Japanese-only 1990s Square RPG to the West for the first time in style. Though Western fans had been able to play Live A Live via fan translation, the 2022 Switch release massively overhauls the