Sony is not stopping on its mission to bring every classic PlayStation series to the PlayStation 4. The company has recently revealed Naughty Dog's classic "Jax and Daxter" to the console that will soon be available to download later this year.
The classics will include "Jax and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy," "Jak II," "Jak 3," and "Jak X: Combat Racing." Naughty Dog is responsible for the series with the first game coming out for the PlayStation 2 in 2001 in the consoles early days.
It was some sort of successor of Naughty Dog's Crash Bandicoot series which focuses on 3D platforming. However, "Jax and Daxter" had a more open level design than "Crash Bandicoot's" linear stages. The series had sold over 15 million copies all over the world.
"Jak II" and "Jak 3" took the series to a darker direction and gunplay inclusion, while Jak X focused on car-based combat. After Naughty Dog stopped working on the franchise, they went on to made the much-admired Uncharted series.
The "Jak and Daxter" classics will be rendered at 1080 and support modern features like Remote Play and trophies. However, they won't have any graphical overhaul or any new features. Also, don't take it as similar to the "Crash Bandicoot's" restoration, reported by Engadget.
The fairly humble conversion effort is not that surprising. Naught Dog has been really busy with "The Last of Us Part II" and, slightly with the "Uncharted: The Lost Legacy." Also, while third parties can surely handle remasters just like Vicarious Visions' remaster of "Crash Bandicoot," overhauling these games is considerably great.
Sony actually did made a remaster on the trilogy in an HD collection for the PlayStation 3 in 2012 and Vita in 2013. The game sure did aged very well, and will surely be worth revisiting once they arrive on the PlayStation 4.