XIII is a first-person shooter video game developed by Maltese studio PlayMagic and published by Microids for PlayStation 4, Windows, and Xbox One in November 2020. It is a remake of the 2003 video game of the same name. The original plan was to remaster the game using original assets and Unity plug-ins. Unfortunately, the original source code was deemed lost and the 2003 version was running in an extremely outdated game engine. Therefore, the team at PlayMagic had no choice but to redo the entire game from scratch, which meant hiring new staff and delaying the release to remake the levels, assets, cutscenes, and animations.
The game received negative reviews from critics and players. It was criticized for its changes to the art style, game design differences from the original, and the game's numerous technical and audio issues. Due to the poor reception, Microids announced in June 2022 that they had replaced PlayMagic with Tower Five as the developer, who had been working on fixing the issues from the 2020 release. Microids released the improved version on September 13, 2022, with this version given as a free update to those that bought the 2020 version. Ports for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S were released at this time as well.
Source: Wikipedia, "XIII (Remake)", available under the CC-BY-SA License.