Ion Fury

Very satisfying old school FPS with a great OST

nice experience but falls apart at the finale

Yippee-Ki-Yay, Motherf*cker!

Mamma mia non so da dove iniziare con questo gioco, avevo buone aspettative per questo gioco che si definisce "The true successor to classic shooters such as Duke Nukem 3D, Shadow Warrior, and Blood." per quanto mi riguarda nemmeno lontano parente ma andiamo con ordine. Il gioco prende (o almeno vorrebbe prendere) a piene mani da quel che fu Duke Nukem 3D, dal momento in cui si scomoda un titolo del calibro di Duke Nukem 3D, che per me è ancora oggi una bibbia su come si fanno gli Fps vecchio stampo, io non posso fare a meno di mettere a confronto i due giochi Livelli : Si ok belli, forse alcuni un po troppo verticali e con troppo platform per quanto mi riguarda, i segreti sono posizionati in punti terribili talvolta, e molti sono anche perdibili se dovessi rompere il bidone dell'immondizia sbagliato, alcuni decisamente labirintici e mancano totalmente i livelli subacquei o livelli in generale che si differenzino dai soliti classici ma diciamo che non sono il problema piu grande Armi : Terribili, le armi peggiori che puoi mettere in un FPS e le armi si ricaricano dopo alcuni colpi, la domanda è PERCHE' ?!? E in piu l'animazione della ricarica è drammaticamente lenta, cosa che in un gioco dove puoi trovarti 20/30 nemici a schermo non incentiva il divertimento, si salvano solo la balestra e il minigun. Mettere lo shotgun e il lanciagranate come unica arma è stata per me una scelta realmente pessima e la pistola è semplicemente INUTILE Nemici : Non ce ne è uno che probabilmente mi ricorderò negli anni, veramente banali. Ps: Lo sviluppatore che ha pensato ai ragnetti meccanici andrebbe DENUNCIATO, ti escono letteralmente da tutte le parti, impossibili da colpire con certe armi, nemico veramente insensato Personaggio : Vabbè qui ne esce inevitabilmente con le ossa rotte, non mi aspettavo di certo il carisma, la sfrontatezza e la comicità del Duca ma nemmeno un personaggio cosi inutile Gameplay : Punto più critico perchè in questo gioco mancano totalmente i gadget (uno su tutti il Jetpack) che insieme alle armi particolarissime che aveva Duke Nukem lo rendevano un gioco unico e vario da affrontare Sonoro e Musiche : Musica ripetuta in loop fino al voltastomaco, l'audio delle armi e dei nemici non è male ma anche qui niente che faccia gridare al miracolo In conclusione trovo che questo Ion Fury sia veramente terribile, non capisco in cosa volesse essere il successore spirituale di Duke Nukem 3D perchè apparte i livelli (alcuni belli altri decisamente meno) che lo richiamano come stile grafico, tutto il resto è di un piattume imbarazzante per colpa di armi veramente brutte da usare e nemici tutti uguali.

Добротный шутер с разнообразными механиками и отличным геймплеем. Имеет массу отсылок на классические представители жанра. Обосновано заслуживает высокие места в подборках т.н. бумершутров. Имеет ряд минусов, такие как однообразность локаций, врагов, иногда не понятно куда идти, оружия не так много как ожидается. Но минусы перекрываются отличной стрельбой

One of the best modern "boom shooters" now just with a female hero who has as many one-liners as a movie marathon of 1980's action movies. Heck a lot of her one-liners are references to 1980's films in the best way possible that left me laughing repeatedly with her timing of them.

At first I bought this game only because I was impressed by its technical achievement, and I wanted to support the developers. However, this really is a good game. If you like boomer shooters, you will like this game.

So this game is almost good, but I dropped it near the end. There's some really crappy sound design in this game. Multiple times the background soundtrack will play on top of diegetic music in the game like in a mall or on top of a jukebox. Competent devs will usually make the background music fade as you walk toward said jukebox music so that the songs are not playing on top of one another simultaneously. This happens multiple times. While the effort to make the protagonist witty and fun like Duke Nukem and Caleb from Blood ALMOST worked, they ultimately failed because she CONSTANTLY REPEATS THE SAME PHRASES again and again. I know you can turn off the voice over, but devs, c'mon. I'd rather have competent VO since some of the lines are charming and immersive for that 90s feel. But how many times do I have to hear that lame "worthless consumer model" line!? Like it was funny the first time, but the literal 20th or so time I heard it was just so annoying. It's like being trapped in school with a neurodivergent kid who can't stop vocally stimming on a phrase he heard in a cartoon over and over again. Is it really that hard to bind certain phrases to particular sections so they're not repeated ad nauseum? Or could you, I don't know, have the actress say just a few more lines!? While the shooting and movement did feel good, the overall gameplay just kind of feels stale near the end. Hard to put my finger on why. A little more enemy variety might have helped? Maybe I should have played on the hard difficulty rather than the default difficulty, but I've played easy shooters before that felt more fun than Ion Fury. The final straw for me came near the end of the game. I was kind of feeling meh about it, but wanted to finish it. Then there was this really tedious and dumb puzzle where you have to uses three switches to line up three quickly revolving doors to get a keycard inside. Well, I got them lined up enough that I was able to squeeze in, but I COULD NOT GET OUT. I tried for a few minutes. Since I hadn't saved for a while and the game does not give you an option to load the last checkpoint, I just blew myself up with bombs. The checkpoint was at the beginning of the level and would have me repeat like 15 minutes or so of boring gameplay. So instead I dropped the game and I'm writing this review. Other minor nitpicks: I can't map anything to the 2 side buttons on my mouse like I always do for FPS games--one button for the shotgun and the other for a rapid fire weapon. There's also fall damage which sometimes feels unnecessary for how not-that-high up you are...but it doesn't matter because there's also too many health pick ups. This game isn't terrible and will scratch that Duke Nukem 3D itch, but I personally wouldn't pay more than 10 bucks for it when there's so many better, cheaper FPS games out there. C tier game for me. It's a shame because building a new game with a classic engine is a really awesome idea, but there's just not enough polish here for me. Play Cultic instead. Best boomer shooter ever.

Salt gave me this game on Xmas 2023, even though he knows I hate annoying-looking women. It's fun, though. Thanks Salt. :steamsalty: