Confirming a leak from earlier this year, Ubisoft has announced Flashback, a re-release of the 2D platformer classic with a HD makeover. The game is being retooled byVector Cell, the French studio helmed by Flashback's original Lead Designer Paul Cuisset.

To celebrate its 20th anniversary, Flashback is back in 3D and HD. Updated for the new millennium by its original creator and rendered in 3D by the power of the unreal engine, a new generation of players can now experience a game that helped define sci-fi Action/Adventure games.

Conrad is back to save humanity from an invasion of alien Morphs set on absorbing our minds and incorporating our species! Rolling and shooting, always ready for another fight, help Conrad save the world and his girlfriend. You’ll find everything you always liked in this classic that set standards of the genre in the 90’s, and brought up to speed with the 21st century technology and expectations.

Flashback is in the works for PC, and console digital download platforms, and is due to launch later this year. Watch the trailer below.