Ion Fury

Simply a wonderful game that harkens back to the days of Duke Nukem 3D and Blood; the Build engine. If you like these old-school shooters, you'll love this game!

I love it, I grew up playing Duke Nuken 3D and Doom and it genuinely feels like an old school FPS, I guess using the build engine contributed a lot to that, but it has nice additions, like the possibility of headshots, that as far as I know weren't in the engine back then. The level design is really cool, they are big and with lots of things to see, I read people complaining a bit about the AI movement and I agree that it could be better but for me it isn't even close to be bad enough to impact my enjoyment of the game. About the reviews, there was a review bombing after people find and the company remove a couple discriminatory assets that a dev had put in the game, so don't mind the "censorship" statements some people made here.

I loved it in the first few hours, which turned into mild amusement, which turned into being bored of it before it was over. Maybe that just means the game outstays its welcome, but I don't think that's the problem for me. If you haven't played any old shooters in a while I can see why this would be an interesting novelty, but as someone who does still play and replay them on the reg, I didn't find Ion Fury to have much interesting to offer. If it came out in the 90s I can only see it being a solid 7/10, even then. The weapons and enemies aren't very unique or exciting. A basic arsenal with nothing that really stands out to me, and some of the same enemies just come at you repetitively (like the robot headcrab things). There's not enough variety there. The indoor environments get a bit dull after the first few levels, with large outdoor areas offering a nice breath of fresh air before you're quickly funneled back into corridors and tunnels again. A lot of the game's humour falls flat and some of it is just perplexing (or maybe I don't get the references?). It does things right too. Movement speed and freedom of movement for example are perfect, and you can get into a very satisfying groove during combat when you're jumping around the maps. The basic enemies die quickly and gib, and the game makes you feel like a badarse. It has all those simple pleasures down fine, but this is like the minimum I would expect from a retro inspired shooter, and it wasn't enough to sustain me through the whole game. There's just something missing from this one.

Wow...just, wow. In the holy trifecta of retro revamp shooters - Amid Evil, Dusk and Ion Fury - this one actually uses a retro engine rather than recreating a retro look with a modern engine. (For the record I think that the trifecta should be a tetratych since Project Warlock kicks serious a**.) I don't think there is anything I can type that Youtubers LGR, Civvie 11 and Gmanlives haven't said - hell, they convinced me to buy the game! If in doubt over whether or not you should pick this game up, check out the channels above to have your mind expanded like that mushroom trip in the hills you swore not to tell anyone about. Also consider that this game costs less than half of what a AAA game costs while delivering a campaign twice the length.

it's literally perfect.