Prodeus Review - A little DOOM, a little QUAKE, a whole lot of EPIC.
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- Опубликовано: 5 июл 2024
- An in depth review of Prodeus, now available in early access.
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Just when you thought this legendary year of fps games couldn't get more legendary, Prodeus comes along and says "hold my chalice."
Prodeus has finally released to early access, bringing with it retro fps, boomer shooter goodness inspired by such classics as DooM, Quake and Duke Nukem 3D.
You play as a corrupted solider, on a mission to destroy his creator, the all powerful Prodeus, and nothing will stand in his way.
The goal of Prodeus is to reimagine the FPS of old with modern rendering techniques. Made with Unity the game features beautiful sprite work, star angular levels and modern lighting, making for one of the most unique look indie fps games since Amid Evil.
In a year where the genre has been dominated by DooM Eternal, Wrath Aeon of Ruin and Ultrakill is Prodeus able to stick out? Find out in this in depth Prodeus review.
Prodeus was developed by Bounding Box Software and published by Humble Games. It is currently available for early access through Steam and GOG. It is slated for release on Mac, Linus, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One.
Timecodes
00:00 - Intro
00:51 - Prodeus Presentation.
2:30 - Prodeus music - Andrew Hulshult, James Paddock.
3:09 - Level design.
4:18 - Prodeus level editor.
5:06 - Prodeus gameplay.
5:28 - Enemies.
6:42 - Prodeus weapons.
10:07 - Reloading and the checkpoint system.
11:55 - Conclusion.
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Hey everybody! As always I hope everyone is doing well and staying healthy! Prodeus is off to a great start. I'm eager to see what the future updates will bring and I do hope the devs tweak a few of the features. But overall I think the core of this game is solid. I'm also really excited about the level editor and what the creative gamers out there will do with it. I'm planning on doing a follow up video about some of my favorite community levels so be on the lookout for that. Also if anybody has any suggestions for levels I should check out be sure to let me know in the comments.
Anybody else playing this game? What are your thoughts? Be sure to let me know.
Thank you to all the new and current subscribers for watching the video, see you all next week!
Timecodes
00:51 - Prodeus Presentation.
2:30 - Prodeus music - Andrew Hulshult, James Paddock.
3:09 - Level design.
4:18 - Prodeus level editor.
5:06 - Prodeus gameplay.
5:28 - Enemies.
6:42 - Prodeus weapons.
10:07 - Reloading and the checkpoint system.
11:55 - Conclusion.
I'm a huge arena fps lover and this convinced me to get the game, started on hard and am having a blast.
Three questions:
1. Is there multiplayer?
2. If not, are the devs considering it?
3. Can you bunny hop?
@@StarlightVoid54 While they said it's not a guarantee the devs said on their kickstarter page that they are planning on multiplayer for the full release.
And yes.
@@StarlightVoid54 bunny hopping is a thing but no multi-player yet
@@KIRKCOLLECTS Thanks for the answer! With these doubts cleared, it seems to tick most of the boxes for me. I will definitely check out your future pieces on it.
Of note is also that the level design is for the most part done by Dragonfly, who is responsible for the Doom 2 megawad Eviternity
Eviternity is awesome!
that's explain why it so well made
@@Amphok Yeah!
Oh boy, that explains why the maps have high quality gameplay.
The level design was one of the most impressive parts, I couldn't believe how good it was. They'd push you hard and ask you to go even further, I tried playing a Doom Eternal Master Level on Nightmare after beating the Prodeus levels on Very Hard, and oh my gosh, it actually felt slow and chill. Doom Eternal, it feels chill after Prodeus!!! I didn't think I'd care for Prodeus much, but I buy all the boomer shooters, and I'm so glad. This narrowly surpasses Ion Fury for me and comes damn close to Doom Eternal.
the levels literally look like a gaming pc
This looks like buckets of fun. Can't wait to give it a go once it's been released.
My wife hates this game, because I eloped with the Prodeus shotgun.
I hope my kids can forgive and understand some day
The heart wants what the heart wants.
Your kids will understand in a few years... when Prodeus 2 comes out.
The sprites with normal maps look awesome! This modern-retro look is something I really dig. Loved the style in Amid Evil. Can't wait to try this one.
The plasma gun acts a lot like the Bullseye from Resistance: Fall of Man. Fires plasma rounds and has an alt fire that pins a homing target on the enemy, allowing your rounds to home in on it.
That's a good read, it's very similar.
This comment hits my nostalgia.
I thought Resistance Fall of Man was great. Too bad it and the franchise got left behind on PS3.
They didn't even HD Remaster/Port the trilogy to PS4. Same with Killzone 2&3.
Was hoping to see a new Resistance or Killzone, even a reboot or remake for PS5. But nah, didn't happen.
Perhaps reloading option at menu. I don't mind, the game is beyond fresh.
Yeah, the option would be nice.
I was fine with reloading, very quick like in Goldeneye 64 and nicely animated.
But, they can give players the option to turn it off. Just please don't take it away from those that like it.
Great video! Two things I noticed:
- You do not need to alternate firing with the shredders, they both consume from the same magazine pool. Strange, I know.
- the sticky nades detonate after you let go of right click!
I had a blast playing it. One of the best indie shooters to come out this year.
I tried the demo for this game and I liked it, but I'm probably gonna wait for it to go on sale or to come out of Early Access.
Two good FPS games are currently on sale on Steam: Terminator Resistance and the original XIII. Terminator is 40% off for a little over $20 and XIII is down from $6 to a little over $2.
Still hoping Trepang2 isn't Dead.
I have XIII for my PS2 but I wouldn't mind playing the PC version, especially for that price. I was looking forward to the remake but.... yeah.
Terminator I wouldn't mind trying, that's getting quite the reputation for being an underrated gem.
Same, Trepang2 has a ton of promise.
@KIRK COLLECTS, XIII doesn't support Steam achievements or Steam cards, but yes, that price is a steal.
I've heard the remake is not good. The only review I've seen is Gman's. So I don't know if the PS4 and Xbox One versions are that bad either.
Shame they didn't include the original 2003 XIII with the remake as an in game unlockable or pre order bonus. I don't think the original is available on PSN or the Xbox version is backwards compatible on Xbox One X and Xbox Series X.
Terminator Resistance is my FPS game of the year. AA budget from a small Polish dev, but the game had a lot of heart and soul put into it. It's not the next evolution of FPS games, but it's a solid fun game and gives a great send off to the original two Terminator films.
Even got some free dlc that adds a level where you play as an infiltration Terminator. Nice.
Haven't seen anything from Trepang2's RUclips channel for a while. But on Steam in the community forms one of the devs does mention there's another demo out that adds features not in the Steam one from Winter 2019.
Also, another indie FPS to keep an eye on is Brutal Fate, which will release in early 2021. It's basically Brutal Doom made official. Same dev/modder I think. 👍
I was 5th place in the world for Winslow Banks FFA on Xbox for XIII for years after it came out, love that game but I no longer have it or an Xbox original to play it on and can find no record of those Leader boards :( cool to see it’s making a come back :D
@chris roberts, So far just on pc digitally.
The XIII 2020 Remake and its botched release may have just pushed more to buy the original 2003 game.
A few good original Xbox games are playable through backwards compatibility on Xbox One and Xbox Series X. But not XIII.
However, Microsoft can add more games and I think they accept requests on their social media accounts to add games to their backwards compatibility system.
If they do add XIII, they often sell digital versions too that are around $10 if you don't have the disc.
They even can go on sale. Saw Star Wars Republic Commando and other classic Lucasarts games on sale recently for $5 each. No required outside mods/patches to get working like the Steam versions either.
Wouldn't mind seeing more forgotten games being added like: Timesplitters 2&3, Area51, Psi Ops The Mindgate Conspiracy, and Cold Fear.
Mega Underrated RUclipsr. I’m hoping your channel blows up big in time. Your review style is super to the point in clear while being meaningfully detailed. Like the difference between a popular gaming pundits short article-based videos, and a homegrown youtuber’s 20-30 minute breakdowns. Also the way you speak produces excitement, like talking to someone super hyped about a given game and discussing it. Radical.
Thank you so much Jan! Thats a super nice comment. I'm glad the excitement comes through because that's all I have for this stuff.
I thought this video would have more views/likes, what a high quality review. Keep up the good work
the custom map scene for this game is shaping up nicely too, the map editor for it is good
I'm really impressed with what I've seen so far. I'm waiting for the day someone puts up an insane campaign.
There are 2 weapons not reviewed in this video you can only find in custom maps : the plasma BFG that shoots multiple projectiles at once in a straight line horizontal, vertical, or the usual stream and a chaos projectile launcher if you want to LARP as one of these cacodemons with a shotgun alternativ fire, big DOT.
I don't think that the enemies in the retro mode are actual sprites. they look like 3d models with some type of filter on them, which isn't a bad thing, I love the look of them
Great review, absolutely gonna check this out when I have the time
Great content my dude! Well edited and nicely put together - keep going, I’m sure your channel will blow up with time
Your channel is great discovered you the other day and I have nearly watched all of your videos. Great content and great presentation. I look forward to future videos.
Thank you Joshua!
Man, I'm actually more excited for this than Doom Eternal to come out on the Switch. Might come out first too.
16 thousand views! Congratz man, I'll be here when your channel blows up. Great content!
Thanks man!
Can't wait for civvie to make pro Prodeus.
Another great video! Glad to see you getting such a big spike in subs, you definitely deserve it! Stay safe my dude!
Thank you Chris! You as well.
This is starting to look A LOT better than the first videos I saw talking about this game.
Came across this video and watched a bunch of your reviews back to back. Just want to say... amazing job dude! Just subbed and hope others will follow quickly!
Thank you so much!
If they want to go half and half on reloading, they could keep it in, but make it so that switching out weapons and getting kills that way will reload unequipped weapons. There are similar mechanics in rage 2 and shadow warrior 2 in regards to avoiding reloading in games with reloading.
yeah, something like this or also add maybe an ammo reloading indicator around the crosshairs so that you can see it's coming. Otherwise you have to keep looking down.
8:24 sounds like that gun from Resistance
One thing i complain about this game is the ammo pickup and ammo limit, it's just not enough
And for a game that's advertised as a "boomer shooter", this feels a bit modern with the reloading, checkpoints instead of quicksave, insanely linear level design (if compared to other boomer shooters, i've never got lost and needed to watch RUclips for this level on prodeus)
But it's still a good and fun game
There's definitely things they need to tweak. The checkpoints and reloading are odd for sure, I wouldn't be surprised if those things were changed or removed by next update.
Had very similar problems playing Turok last year. They really don't give ya a lot of ammo and Lord help you if you die and lose the backpack ammo capacity upgrade.
Enemies turn into absolute bullet sponges if you don't use certain weapons on them.
@@KIRKCOLLECTS i doubt they will remove reloading as it's part of the core loop, I mean I hate it - but I doubt it. I've been playing it since early alpha and I know people have (me as well) issues with it - yet it's still there. I think they could both add more ammo (that would help with one issue) and maybe add a reloading "warning" indicator around your crosshairs show you that the gun will require reloading soon. Now the reloading requires looking down to see how much ammo you have.
Not getting lost is testament to good map design imo.
This is looking way better than when I saw it 1? 2? years ago when it first hit early access. Back then I wouldn't have bothered with it because the enemies all looked/behaved like they were in Doom, but I can see they really worked on making it stand out more.
Nearly choked on my tongue as soon as you mentioned the Level Editor.
Wasn't going to get it till it's out of EA, but I would say you changed my mind.
Not just cause of the editor, the whole review is basically a "Buy it and buy it now!" to me. ^^
I don't think u gonna be dissapointed I had WAY more fun with this than with doom 2016 partially because produes doesn't lock me in a room for 2 Minutes to tell me about it's story I don't give a SH*T about
It's been a year since this review and the game's still in early access. I can't freakin wait anymore. Need. To. Buy. Now.
For what it's worth on the Reloading: I think it helps a lot because it takes "switching to your pistol is always faster" from Call of Duty to the extreme.
You mention how it makes you take weird breaks but like, you can always just *cycle down*.
Go from SMG to pistol.
Super shotty to normal.
Rocket Launcher to grenade launcher
And so on. You just keep going to rotate the weapon pool till you're genuinely dry.
Looks awesome! Can't wait to play the full release
Thanks to Doom and Doom Eternal... the frenetically 90's shooters are going back!
I see that Bullseye from Resistance
You missed the chance to say "A little QUAKE, a little DOOM, a whole lot of BLOOD"
Your videos are way too high quality for you to only have a few thousand subs. You deserve more
It reminds me of Life Force Tenka
looks amazing. frickin in love with that graphical style :)
A good channel! Needs more subscribers! Atleast 100k subscriber!
That's not just the Super Shotgun, that's ALL the Super Shotgun.
Good content. Subscribed.
Definitely plan to play Prodeus. Forget CoD or Battlefield! I want all the neo-boomer shooters!
I love the visual design for the most part, but I do wish some of those effects (blood splatters, particle effects) were toned down a little. I've watched a few reviews and sometimes they seem to drown out the screen. Maybe there's an option to dial them back? If there isn't, I sure hope there will be one.
I hope they make their own arena multiplayer
The homing tag alt fire for the plasma gun reminds me of the Bullseye from the Resistance series. Always liked that gun in single player.
Looking forward to seeing this released properly.
This game is amazing; can’t wait to see what comes next!
It's after watching videos like this I wish I had a gaming PC... sadly, I have to wait for console release. But when they do, I promise I'll buy it twice (Switch & Xbox)!
This game would be complete if they got Trent Reznor aboard for the soundtrack. Make a similar thing to quake 1 and doom 3's cut soundtrack, that would fit this game so well!
Ooo, can't wait to pick this up!
I kickstarted this one. I love me some old school shooter goodness, and enhancing it with some modern engine capabilities just makes all the more delicious.
I could do without the reloading myself. As you point out in the video, it's not the most obnoxious reloading ever in a game, but I'd be happy for it to go away. I'm not a huge fan of checkpoint systems, I just want to be able to save whenever and wherever I want.
What I find interesting is a lot of things that were lauded about shooters as they moved from their roots of Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Quake, and so on, eventually made shooters worse. Simple, linear levels with objectives spelled out for you, reloading, AI squad mates, regenerating health, and other 'improvements' often make the games less fun instead of more. So ever since we started getting games like Dusk, Amid Evil, Ion Fury, Project: Warlock, and other retro-shooters over the last couple years, it's been a great time to be a shooter fan!
I need this game on consoles!!!
Take all my money
"Clearly the biggest influence is the DOOM series"? I'd say; more like the Quake series. Especially Quake II.
Seems really cool! An idea for the reloading: Why not just make it an option to toggle on/off? I feel like those who enjoy the mechanic can simply leave it on whereas those really dislike it can just turn it off.
It's a delightful game, I just wish there was an option for smoother animations.
4k, your work is paying off
I'm gonna grab this one, I love the look. And you made the level design sound super fun.
It is announced for the Switch, but I feel like you'd really get a kick out of the map editor.
@KIRK COLLECTS, Switch too!? Nice.
Hope it eventually gets a physical release too.
Wouldn't mind a PS4 and Xbox ports and possible physical copy too.
For some reason, both Switch and PS4 often get physical copies but not Xbox One. This happens even on those sites that sell digital to physical releases.
Oh I bet Limited Run will be all over this.
I think it's because Microsoft doesn't want to do it, not totally sure why though.
@@KIRKCOLLECTS you're right I would enjoy that. But I love me a good game on the Switch as much as you love shotguns, or at least 80 percent as much
@KIRK COLLECTS, LRG is doing a physical copy for Ion Fury on PS4 and Switch right now. But not Xbox One/Series X...
Heck, Nightdive Studios' Turok 1&2 released digitally on Xbox One before the Switch versions, but LRG did physical copies for only the Switch.
Turok 1&2 supposedly may be released on PS4. It'd be funny if that gets physical copies too.
LRG has sold one or two Xbox One/Series X physical games recently, but I think it was distributed games and not their LRG line. Weird.
Bought Prodeus yesterday on early release after watching this and have been loving it. Not sure if it was just me but on the level where you have to destroy the shields (where you have the lost souls things flying at you), I could not get the blue card?... Thanks for the great video and recommendation!
Edit - Just finished it and have had a blast with this, Prodeus is now the only game where the shotgun is my go-to sniper rifle!...Also, I'm happy the pistol is an absolute power house, kept using it all throughout the game.
Not sure about the reloading, tbh Doom 2016/Eternal has taught me to weapon switch constantly, so it wasn't too much of a deal breaker.
This looks AWESOME! :D
Beautiful.
How in the hell don't you have at least 100k subscribers? RUclips throw so much crap at me that after finding your channel I feel like I found a Legendary item lol.
Great review and enjoying your channel! Looking forwards to this game, but any views on whether to jump in on early access or wait until done?
Thank you George!
I think it's safe to jump in. Mechanically the game is feeling very good and what's available for the campaign so far is a good chunk of content. Plus if you're a completionist there's a lot of added challenge in getting all the kills, secrets etc. The user made levels is what really tips it over the edge though. There's, in theory, an endless amount of content that could come out of that and already there's a ton of excellent levels available to play.
Always go with your gut when it comes to early access games, but I think it's a safe purchase.
Thanks for the reply! If you are looking for video ideas would be great to have a comparison between early access games like this and wrath aeon of ruin with fully launched retro FPS like dusk and amid evil.
An option in the settings,to toggle whether you want to play with reloading or without?
I want this game so bad
This game wants you to play it so bad.
Been enjoying this one. Wish more games had a visor hud
Excellent!
I like reloading, but I think I know why people don't like it, so I'd add these aspects (if they haven't already).
-Reloading should be really, really fast. Not everybody likes Strafe, but this is one thing it did right.
-Have clear and satisfying audio/visual cues when the animation is over. (Think the sound of the bolt release going CHNK at the end of an M4 reload--things like the shotgun could just be topped off mid-mag as you go with no useless extra pump at the end. The Halo CE Shotgun does this excellently, and has a ridiculously deep mag to start with, so I almost never ran dry.).
-To avoid changing the pace of gameplay for people who want to switch weapons quickly to combo enemies, have every weapon automatically reload when the player switches away from it. Boom. You wanna play Doom Eternal style? You absolutely can. You'd only reload when using the same weapon until the magazine is dry, and never run into the problem of getting into a fight and discovering you forgot to reload half your guns.
The effect of blood on the shotgun is my fav.
Absolutely fantastic game. By far my favourite retro shooter. This is what technique cooldown simulator 2020, er I mean Doom Eternal, should have been.
Holy shit this looks amazing!!!
Sadly Doom 93 still has smoother reload animation. But this game looks sick!!
I've been waiting for this game since I heard about the alpha. So glad I can give it a try.
Dunno man. I wmhip out the pistol all the time to take care of smaller enemies. It's strong.
the guns in this game are so innovative
this far out from launch, is there any chance the checkpoint system gets fixed?
Looks good, maybe I'll try it
Hopefully when it releases for PS5 Kirk can do review and give technical insights just like his excellent Ion Fury one.
So is the map editor just like snapmap or can you add custom textures and models to your maps as well
It’s definitely a step up from Snap map, in fact I believe the devs actually used it to build the main campaign. But I don’t believe you can add custom textures and models.
Eyy, Brutal Doom finally finished development.
A bit late but, the view weapons and hands are not 2d sprites, they are fully 3d meshes with retro pixel style filter and skipped frame animations to make them look 2d. One more thing, the resolution options are not a mimic in this case, it actually affects your performance when reduced.
The Chaingunners
*cries in doomguy
Sup Kirk, the Prodeus devs linked me to your channel, I think we'll get along fine.
Sup C4, thank you for watching!
It's a very basic game with an old-style game mechanics, there's nothing really complicated about it, but the gameplay is incredibly smooth and satisfying. You can spend days just going through the levels. I am in awe of this game.
Cant wait for this! Not a fan if the crosshairs tho, kinda big in my opinion but I'm sure there might be an option to simplify it hopefully but I know that's just splitting hairs because this game looks awesome! It's like brutal doom. Anyone know when thus drops for xbox?
Damn, this game looks amazing
I will buy day one when it comes to Switch
O.k, this looks awesome
Prodeus = BRUTAL DOOM ! :D
Looks and plays dope AF
This game looks absolutely gorgeous!
You can rapid punch if you time your mouse 1 and mouse 2 buttons correctly. Great to save ammo on weaker enemies.
great review! does it have new game plus?
Technically no, but you can go through the earlier levels with the full arsenal and there's lots of difficulty options.
No bunnyhop? No rocketjumps? No aircontrol? This is definitely NOT Quake!
Sweet I was playing this earlier on my potato, wish it looked like yours lol but still great fun
It seems that weapons you don't get in campaign are already in game, found a few user maps with "new" weapons included.
Yep, I've come across them while exploring the user maps. There's some new enemy types too.
I'm split on this game's visual style. The pre-rendered sprite look honestly makes things look too busy, couple that with the lighting effects and it's hard to even tell what you're looking at. Same issue when I see clips from Amid Evil.
I get that it's graphically impressive converting high detailed models into sprites but there needs to be clearer, cleaner design language for that to work imo
I still haven't had the pleasure of using the super shotgun in this game. That being said, this game is AWESOME
Indeed very satisfying. Love it
The graphics in Prodeus are the definition of Next Gen gaming. The look and performance are miles ahead of the competition.
What's the name of the song at the end? Doesn't seem to be from the OST. Min 11:58
Track 10 - Decay. I used the portion at 2:56 👍
@@KIRKCOLLECTS Thanks!