PO'ed, an infamous relic of the early days of FPS gaming, is getting a remaster from Nightdive Studios. Yes, it is April Fools' Day, and no, this does not appear to be an April Fools' joke.
PO'ed: Definitive Edition was announced today with an extensive trailer and listings on Steam and GOG promising "updated visuals, antialiasing, increased frame rate, and redefined controls, and up to 4K 144 FPS performance." On top of PC, the game is also coming to PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X and S, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch. Nightdive says to "stay tuned" for a release date.
In the most basic terms, PO'ed is a first-person shooter in the mold of the original Doom, but much, much weirder. You're a chef who's turned out to be the last human standing after your ship was hijacked by aliens, and you've got to take down the bad guys with an array of non-standard weapons including power drills and frying pans. The aesthetics are all '90s gross-out kitsch, with enemy designs including a pair of buttcheeks with legs attached. You might argue that this sounds like a human that's been cut in half, but I promise you, it's a full-on butt monster.
These days, PO'ed is mostly remembered as a surreal curiosity of the '90s, but it's a pretty unique take on shooters that offered much bigger levels than the games that had come before. It also gave you a jetpack to quickly fly through those levels, and we all know that jetpacks make every game better.
