Ion Fury

1. Graphics: + Atmospheric, good colors and contrast, excellent textures and vfx. - Revolver and Shotgun models are kind of generic. 2. Audio + Soundtrack is one of the best that I've heard in classic shooters, has stuck with me after finishing the game. - Weapon sounds feel like they could use a bit more oomph, right now it feels like they are just barely strong enough. 3. Story/Characters + Not much, the story is cliche villain attacks the city and the hero must defeat him. At least the lines are decent and well voice acted. - There's no plot twist, no character development and no support characters, for a game that is quite lengthy. I feel like Shelly should've had a friend that get's killed or sacrifices at some point, to raise the stakes. 4. Level Design + Various layouts and locations to keep things fresh, with plenty of secrets to encourage exploration. - Would've benefitted from having collectibles and a currency to buy upgrades for a change. Finding just health/ammo pickups gets boring. - SMG/Minigun need more ammo drops. - Some sections have too many enemy spawns, so they get tedious. 5. Combat + It's decent... - Low enemy variety, especially as it is a lengthy game. - Low gun variety. Missing rocket launcher, BFG-type gun, fun-type weapons(e.g. freeze/shrink ray, vodoo doll). - The existing weapons need more tuning/balancing (pistol alt is op, too many grenade weapons. shotgun and crossbow main attacks feel weak). - No upgrade system, which feels needed given the length of the game. - I find movement speed to be a little too fast to aim properly while running. I hope they overhaul the gameplay part in the future, as this game has the potential to become a classic.

The game is awesome, level design is awesome, gameplay is awesome. It also runs on my dual core thinkpad with 8GB of ram and is 3D which is also awesome.

This Build engine game might just be my favorite of the good ones (Duke, Blood, Shadow Warrior). It has old school non linear levels with new school game design techniques to help guide the player. There's a lot of fun to be had exploring the very intricate levels. Even though they are complex, you still don't really get lost in them. The weapons are excellent, especially the chaingun. My only gripe is with enemy design. The cultists are a little bland (especially compared to Blood's) and there are some smaller enemies that are plain unfun to deal with.

Devs decided to not censor their jokes. People who actually like the game should consider giving them another chance

It's not really the Duke, Caleb or Wang. But it tries hard and does many things right. If you didn't know it you might think this game would be from those times. It's fun! If you like those old school shooters, chances are good you might like this one! The developers on the other side... well, they knew what kind of game they were doing, and what time period they tried to imitate. That's why I don't understand they immediatly gave in when the first people called them out for political incorrectness. So keep in mind that future updates might remove "offensive" content. But with gog Galaxy you can always go back to 1.0 which is uncensored. But I'm rating only the game here (version 1.0), I'm personally not a fan of review bombing, and four out of five stars is absolutely ok. More variety in enemy design and weapons and it would have been the five star rating.