Posted on: August 26, 2019

pstasik6

Games: 109 Reviews: 1

Good but with issues.

The game is a blast. There's fast-paced frenetic action and great audio and level design. However, I have a few major gripes. The main is the damn skull-spider things. There's just so many that they ruin gun-fights constantly. I'll be fighting my way down hallways and large courtyards, then just get killed because these mostly silent irritations finally whittle me down. Secondly, there doesn't feel like much time was put into some of the weapons. Most of them are fun and it's great you can still use your early weapons later on, but the bowling bomb for example just isn't doesn't seem to live up to its potential and rarely seems to actually home in on targest, instead it's just rolling around uselessly until you pick it back up more often than not. I guess there's something going on with censoring, but I don't stay up on video game news much these days, but that does seem pretty spineless of the devs to bend to a couple of lily livered babies on the internet. This on top of the whole Iron Maiden malarky really shakes my trust in them to push the envelope or stand up for themselves ever gain. Good game, but sometimes you have to ignore the whines of the oversensitive, and also realize that people are tired of small swarms of stupid, little insect enemies. There's a reason not a ton of people are screaming for another Serious Sam game. Those spide-skull things really are frustrating.

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Posted on: August 29, 2019

Gomeramos

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Games: 559 Reviews: 2

Incredible Game - 3D Realms Masterpiece

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!

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Posted on: March 15, 2025

cross3yed0ni

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Games: 199 Reviews: 4

Eh. It's okay

Bit overrated, honestly. Level design is interesting, the music is pretty good, and the nods to 90s FPS games are fun, but it doesn't feel particularly good to play. Weapon reloads are too common, and are especially inconvenient when dealing with enemy swarms. Weapons feel weak and lack punch, and resources are too scarce for my tastes. Plus, the writing is bad. Like, I get that that's the point, but it isn't even funny bad, a lot of lines are very cringe worthy.

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Posted on: August 25, 2019

brian_ch

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Games: 196 Reviews: 1

Authentic feel of the old FPSs

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.

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Posted on: September 2, 2019

CynicMimic

Games: 324 Reviews: 19

Something missing.

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.

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