NecroVision

HOW CAN YOU NOT LOVE IT

great game, very nostlgic and fun!

(+1 star for personal prejudice) I believe single player FPS games fall on a spectrum. On one end sit classic Doom/Wolfenstein. On the other sits Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 (the original). I must confess at the outset that I find classic Doom/Wolfenstein utterly boring but love MW2. With its many questionable cinematics, new players like me might mistake NecroVisioN for a cinematic experience with a touch of gunplay. It's not. As early as Chapter 2, I began to encounter many more gun fights and boss battles than I was comfortable with. By the end of Chapter 2, I had enough. So why 4 stars? Two reasons. First: this game was Doom (2016) before there was Doom (2016). True, the gameplay is a lot more janky and everything is so dark, but the reward-driven combo-based in-your-face combat is still creative. Your many different weapons, when used in combination with your kick and basic melee attack, have different effects. You might trigger a lightning attack that jumps to all surrounding enemies. You might knock them all down. You might heal yourself. A lot of the effects seemed to be the same, but it was still fun trying them out. What is not creative is the the enemy design. Through two chapters and a bit of the third, I could only remember fighting enemy soldiers that run at me. There were a few bigger dudes with bigger guns and a few bosses. Oh yeah, and dogs. But there was none of thrill of gradually learning to kill an exciting new enemy. Maybe I just hadn't reached them. The second reason is simpler. By Chapter 3, I had seen a fire-breathing dragon. This game is crazy. Again, misleading due to the WW1 setting. The game is definitely not about WW1. I may love CoD, but I appreciate craziness in games. If this game were more polished, it could have been a cult classic. Maybe it is. As it stands, you have to be willing to go on a janky rumble fueled, LSD induced vision trip to enjoy it. Words can't quite capture it. MandaloreGaming's review is spot on for me.

It's like playing a worst PS1 or PS2 game with bad controls

I never made it passed the first level as I got stuck with no where to go once coming out of the starting area and shooting some soldiers. Visually the game for it's age is pretty good except shadows looking like there are millions of little bugs on everything. Performance is terrible dropping down to 63 FPS on an RTX 2060 with Ryzen 2600x at 2560x1440. Sound is serviceable but not noteworthy, similar in performance sound wise to something liek Medal Of Honor on the PS2. Avoid.