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AA2 resources(staticmeshes, materials and textures) is not good enough to be present in a modern game on it's own. Just look at my converts of the AA2 maps that is available in AAPG. Almost direct converts all of them, and it still looks like UE2.5 even if it's done on a newer engine.

So it's not just the core that need re be redone, assets will be have to be redone as well, and then you can as well just play AAPG or any other FPS...

But if you get a team together, good luck..

I'll say what I've said before about this but please don't let it ruin your enthusiasm.

We don't have the source code so we can't change everything freely. To solve this, we'd need to start from scratch like you're describing. It would have to be on a new engine since I doubt we can get a UE2 license. While ELiZ proves things can be ported in both directions (newer to older, older to newer), that's just assets. We would have to re-code the core parts of the game. Sounds great and we could probably get a team together to do it but there's a catch; It won't have the same feel as AA2. Never will. Even the AA devs themselves with all the source and just moving up engine builds in UE2, they couldn't keep gameplay the same. Everybody has their own favorite AA version. When you think about writing all new code, you're talking about building an entirely new game that doesn't have appeal from the AA2 audience. You're then talking about competing with all the other shooters on the market. Look at ARMA, Battlefield and Call of Duty, they each have their own niche market and nothing will ever compete with them. Building an AA clone would directly compete with ARMA. There's another game that has been on Kickstarter that pretty much is an AA clone, aiming for small-scale realism. There just wouldn't be any room in the market for competition, at least not without a paid or promise to be paid and dedicated dev team with no speciality gaps.

Thanks Koden, that's the one I was thinking of.

I don't think this would work. Lilke Spanky said, if you recoded it, you will get a new game, not the same one on a different engine.

We are able to recode it, and make it looks and bechieve just like original. We just have to extract some constats like: movement speed, air friction, ground fricition, bouncing, throw distance....

Spanky: UT2 is litle bit old, havy, closed and usupported.

Sure you can get numerical settings from UE2, but how UE3 and Source and other engines handle those numbers will be different that how UE2 handles them. With a new engine the game will feel different by default.

Plus there are TONS of things that make AA2 feel the way it feels. Some of those tings you'll probably never even think of until you make a new game and go like "This doesn't feel right!". It's to do how your character reacts to pose changes and weapon changes, to stairs, to falls. It's to do how others see you character acting in those situation. It's just SUCH a complex ensemble I'll be willing to bet it's impossible to mimic on another engine.

i do play aa2, because i love it like it is now. to much changes (like 203 on hospital) will kill the original touch of it.

to get the feeling of a newer engine, i go to play aa4 from time to time.

but nice effort from your side.