Chains of Fury

The "Mostly Negative" reviews here kept me away from buying 'Chains of Fury' so many times, but I saw it on Fanatical for $2 and just had to give it a shot and, well, it's definitely not good. The comic book aesthetic with it being an FPS is what initially drew me and probably everyone else in because it's just something that meshes well. The presentation at first seems pretty good alongside some good music will then give you a false impression because the gameplay. well heck even settings is where everything just falls apart. The gunplay itself for like the first 20 minutes works well enough, it's a little slow, but kicking down doors as your met with an alien's guts exploding like a party popper as you flick off the rest of your foes while being in a furious rage feels kinda fun until one of the biggest problems arise..... WHERE ARE MUH BULLETS?! In my 2 playthroughs on both 'Easy' and 'Normal' I could not find any bullets, with 'Normal' it says you can only pick up bullets during 'Fury,' which sounds like an okay challenge on paper until you realize that no more bullets show up, like yes some guns do have unlimited ammo during this, but no more additional ammo showed up for me, but in 'Easy' when you are supposed to get bullet pickups just by playing through normally didn't work either, I just eventually stopped picking up ammo for whatever reason. This means you'd have to rely on your fists which would be okay if they weren't varying in levels of severity, getting hit by a pillow to a truck back to a pillow just makes it a tedious task, thankfully there is a config file in which you can just give yourself copious amounts of bullets because otherwise this would've been a nightmare. This would've been a good time if something so simple could've just worked. This thing is a buggy mess, you will clip right through walls or have enemies push you through walls out of bounds, you can fall right through platforms as you're running around shooting things, item hitboxes are off causing you to run back through them multiple times in order to get stuff, and even the UI itself freaks out from having language conflicts, prompts not even showing words, and some of your inputs don't even save like cmon. It's already bad enough to have a lack of options, but when the game itself has your selection saved in the menu for it to secretly revert back is a kerfuffle every time you launch the game going "Hey, why can't I crouc- Oh these moth---" It probably could've all been forgiven if the game itself wasn't a mess to play either. Also for whatever reason, the level before the queen boss fight has questionable performance, it goes from fine to it freezing a second or 2 after every enemy kill which is something I didn't experience before or even after this level, on both playthroughs too so it wasn't an isolated case. This could've been something really cool if it wasn't clouded in being such a big technical mess. The only real way I could recommend this is if you're looking for an easy 100% achievement game otherwise stay away from this even if you are curious because this isn't worth it.