Ion Fury

Ion Fury is phenominal, level design, gunplay, and movement all feel great. I'm impressed by how well 3D Realms and Voidpoint have made use of the Build Engine, 4/5 stars because of the devs unfortunately planning to remove some fun and quirky voice lines to appease a demographic comprised of people who won't even play the game in the first place.

- Ion Maiden is a fantastic game not without its flaws. The controls and aiming are tight, movement is solid, art and spirits are top notch. This is the most advanced and best technical of any Build Engine game. It is not better than Duke and not anywhere near as good as Blood. Shelly and Heskel are good characters, both voiced well. Music and audio is great. Shelly does need an alternative bubbly voice and a busty alt model for 90s fans. - The arsenal Shelly has is decent but feels lacking. Ion Maiden is lacking a true Inventory system, the only 2 items she has is a medpack, and a 5+ sec radar that shows where the enemies are. she has a few Quake 1 style powerups she can grab that only last for 30 sec. Here is a massively missed opportunity Ion Maiden had; Shelly needed a bigger inventory system and even an upgrade system where she could swap out different gear she is wearing. The possibilities of being able to upgrade or change armors, gadgets, gear would help increase repeatability. She needs more features. -This leads into my next issue,the enemies. all of them are designed and look great, their AI is well designed too. The issue comes with their visibility, most of the enemies perfectly hide no matter the level, now this makes sense and would easily be solved by an item or gear that would allow Light Amplification or a tactical visor item. Their voices are too low, their colors are too dull, there needs to be a bigger variety, and the flying units are THEE most dangerous and will kill you easily if you aren't paying attention. again, an item to help you pick them out easier would be good if you keep the dull style. The roaster doesn't change up until about half way. Her weapons are for the most part standard, there is a lack of standouts. With the vast open maps there is a great need of scoped rifle or something with zoom to pick out well hidden enemies. She needs a few new sci/fi weapons and to replace the redundant ones. No Rocket Launcher? GTFO

I picked this up after seeing Kilg0re play it a bit and it reminded me of old school FPS games. Graphically it's beautiful and how it feels is really good. Some nice secrets and approaches to objectives and a very polished first chapter of the campaign so far. Cannot wait for the full release and definitely recommend it if you think it's your style of game!

Brilliant gameplay that improves on the classic Build Engine games, beautiful sprite work (the guns in particular look really good) and complex level design that manages to maintain the flow of the action, create a mood and keep you attentive while you look for specific paths and puzzles. Music is good too. If you like Duke Nukem 3D, Doom, Blood and other old-school FPS games you really need to play this.

I think it's telling that the low reviews still acknowledge that Ion Fury is a great game. Ignore the complaints about censorship, as they really, really don't matter. Despite very little being changed, Ion Fury's gameplay remains fully intact, as does the vast majority of its art. Along with AMID EVIL, Ion Fury succeeds in not only perfectly capturing the old-school FPS style, but learning from all of the mistakes of the games it's trying to harken back to. Here you won't find just an excellent first episode, but the entire game is steeped in excellent design, interesting levels, and fantastic gunplay. I dare say it's the _most well-rounded Build Engine game *EVER* made_. This game stands on its own as a fantastic modern FPS, even if its clearly trying to bring back days long past. The developers have clearly poured an immense amount of effort and passion into their game. It really is incredible. And I don't think removing a bottle that says 'OGAY' changes any of that.