Shrek 2 Remastered, one of the only games bold enough to release between the Ocarina of Time remake and GTA 6, launched on November 10. It hasn’t made the impact Aspyr might have hoped for, though, with its early adopters leaving enough negative reviews for the game to debut with a Mixed rating on Steam.
348 players have left a review for Shrek 2 on Steam, and less than half of them are positive. Just 47% right now, with more reviews being left all the time. There are several reasons why the remaster is getting hit with so many negative reviews right away, but its convoluted approach to co-op seems to be the largest sticking point.
Shrek 2 is more demanding than Modern Warfare 4 and Star Wars: Galactic Racer, despite coming out in 2004.
For reasons that I have still not quite been able to figure out, the remaster requires you to link to an Epic Games account if you want to play co-op on Steam. Developer Aspyr isn’t owned by Epic, or even affiliated with the publisher, so it’s unclear why the game requires you to have an Epic account on not just an entirely different platform,...
