duke nukem, but with boobs. its surreal to play a game like duke, in the same engine as duke, yet on the other side of the sex coin. and that's awesome.
*Strange man zaps into existence* Stranger: "I time traveled from the 90s to see what games people are playing 20 years in the future! Please, show me one of your most recent releases." Me: _hands over Ion Fury_ Stranger: _visible confusion_
@@CyberLink70 Doom 2016, Doom Eternal, Resident Evil 2 Remake, Final Fantasy VII Remake, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Pathfinder: Kingmaker, Tropico 6, Dragonball FighterZ, Devil May Cry 5... Good big-budget games exist that aren't bogged down with microtransactions. It's grossly disingenuous to look exclusively at all the "Microtransactions" headlines Jim Sterling puts out and then condemn the entire big-budget industry.
Its crazy how they managed to make a game look period accurate but also surprisngly contemporary too? this game dances a really wonderful line between the two.
the revolver is probably the best weapon in the game. shotgun is actually way less satisfying due to scattering of the shot (and opposite to DOOM II super shotgun which guarantees monster kill, ion fury shotgun sometime hits and sometimes misses )
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LGR, the only place where a game review jumps right away to make graphics worse and CRT monitor. Love it!
José Lages Nice resolution for watching on mobile too (gaming on mobile needs to cater to the insane range of impossible pixel resolutions, but video can skip resolutions that require a microscope).
i got three crt's (i need to replace the pots which is not a big deal) and if they didn't need work i would be using one right now and i have a modern system (amd ryzen 2800x, 16 gigs ram, 2 gig hard drive, amd 580 black edition video card and my lovely dvd burners (which will be buried with me). Now to get some free time so i can fix my crt's.
Sprites will never go out of style. Which is why Doom has stood the test of time, even for new players. Pixel, and Sprite based games live on their artistic values.
@@juicejumper not only not used but it didn't even exist as an idea, putting spikes in it was the bright idea of a modern place that owned the original thing
Ah TekWars, that show inspired so much late 90s tech design, I was an industrial design student and for some reason TekWars and similar future based shows were mandatory viewing by the professors. Almost every weirdly amorphous design with bizarre button layouts like that Audible player LGR reviewed recently or basically any phone Nokia released in the first half of the 00s could be traced back to those 90s shows.
@@everythingsgonnabealright8888 Yeah, and I feel sorry for him. I mean, locked in a dungeon, being tortured and even worse: PLAYING THE MATRIX LEVEL FROM FUCKING TEKWAR!
It would be nice to get an actual Perfect Dark style FPS with multiple objectives and mission parameters in a single large level. Nobody really makes that kind of game...
Shelly Harrison was originally going to be a side kick / love interest for Duke Nukem. There is old concept art of her from years ago. You could say this game has essentially been in development for 20 years
@@HunterTinsley That sounds like the sort of retro styled shooter an indie dev might eventually tackle. Most retro styled shooters right now are more so following the mold of games like Doom, Quake, and Duke Nukem 3D (though Hedon and Amid Evil also have some Heretic and Hexen, Hedon in particular borrows Hexen 2's style of puzzle solving but without the HUB), in other words they're styled more after PC 90s shooters where progression was based more on key hunting. Console 90s shooters like Goldeneye, Perfect Dark, the PS1 version of Powerslave, Turok 2 (not so much the first one, it was a very key hunt heavy game like PC shooters), and others usually gave specific objectives to complete before finishing a level with keys not always being essential to progression. Now in no way am I trying to say "key hunting shooters" are a bad thing, I love the majority of them in fact, but as someone who did actually grow up more on console shooters in the 90s than PC shooters, I'd love to see an indie one day make a shooter that specifically aims to recreate the style of gameplay you would have seen from the likes of Goldeneye or Perfect Dark.
They're partnering with a bunch of Indie developer nowadays to build and publish some games. They still good. Releasing some good game with no bullshit like microtransaction, etc, etc. Looking forward to Wrath Aeon Of Ruin, Core Decay, GhostRunner and Graven
You know what would be fantastic? A game with mid-90s to early-2000s aesthetic with a AAA budget. Since less resources have to go to fidelity, a _lot_ of high quality content can be added. This game with its 3DRealms support is as close of an example as you can get.
@@АлексейГриднев-и7р There's a whole lot of market for retro stuff, and we've even seen indie games with horrible graphics achieve notoriety many times. I think it could work perfectly. All they have to do is really focus the budget toward content, rather than graphics.
This is amazing. The more I hear about this game, the more I love it. ttention AAA developers - THIS is what we want, not all your oh-so-generic boring open-world hyper-monetised lootbox-infested DLC money pits. That stuff is garbage - Ion Fury is what REAL gaming is all about!
@@barrelbarry9940 Well, considering that they are entirely different markets brand confusion is nearly impossible. It'd be like Apple suing a Honey Crisp farmer because of calling his products 'Apples.'
Duke 3D was the game that forced me to learn how to aim with a mouse. I was getting by with just a keyboard somehow up until that game. Crazy how hard it was to adapt to new controls like that.
Blood's shopping mall level was one of my favorites as well, especially for multiplayer. There's just so many interesting aspects in open locations where one kind of knows what's where. I'm glad they made a level like that for Ion Fury as well.
Indeed, the sourceport it currently has isn't complete, and DOSBox'ed original is pretty hard to play with no mid-level save or mouselook (have to emulate page up and down keys on mouse - the horror, which screws up menus and still doesn't move right).
Yeah, I liked Dark Forces back in the 90s. Basically Doom but strip away the demons and pictures of Hitler and replace with Stormtroopers and frankly bizarre level designs and you've got Dark Forces.
Duke Nukem 3D was the first FPS that I could run at 800x600 resolution and I was astonished how sharp everything looked. The Build engine was surprisingly capable even in its day, but for them to be releasing a new game based on it is slightly bonkers to say the least...
>Game released August 15th >Video uploaded on August 14th You know, LGR being a time traveler would explain a LOT about how they find all this retro hardware....
CinVerd you must not have watched the video. lGR got a pre release sorta copy, which is mostly finished. And that's why this was uploaded 1 day before. ;P
I thought some of the enemies reminded me of Rise of the Triad, then when I saw the little prisms you pick up all over the maps, it really set in some ROTT for me. I love it!
Having played with the Build’s level editor for about two years, I can only express my admiration for the things, they have managed to do with it. I want a Switch version of this game so badly.
Am I the only one who thinks this should stay PC only? Like I get why they are wanting to do it, and from a Business stand point it make sense. But a Build engine game on a PC just feels, wrong. To me anyway. Still haven't beating Ion Fury but I love it. It also reminds me of 5 year me playing Duke Nukem for hours a day
I also wanna stress to curious onlookers that if you play this game without javing the nostalgia from younger years running with you, you may still be surprised at how good and fun level/enemy/weapon design in a game that gives you control at all times can hook you in.
I miss games with complex level design. Shouldn't we have moved towards increased and improved complexity instead of levels devolving into aesthetically pretty simple hallways?
Wow, I'm impressed with the reload animations and art in general, considering the age of the engine. I wish the enemy death animations had more frames, so they'd look as smooth as the guns.
I'd put $ on that being a stylistic choice. An homage if you will. I for one like it. Its those lil details that they've held back on that really sell this game. They could have very easily made this game all high res. super hd blah blah blah. But they chose not to and I would argue that knowing what NOT to overdo properly is more difficult than making them look amazing. An extra frame or two maybe but I like what they've done here.
Yeah, I would have liked it if they took the same approach as Brutal Doom, with it's silky smooth animation. But I can understand the aesthetic choice.
Go figure. 3d Realms spent all that lost time making Duke Nukem Forever and losing the IP, when all they needed to do was make a new build engine based Duke.
Timing. Timing is so damn important in this industry (and luck with the whims of the consumers, honestly). Not sure if a retro shooter like this would have fared well in sales 10 years ago juuuust as 1080p gaming was starting to become "a thing" affordable to most people and was all the hype. Might have even looked like a desperate move by a broken company. Now that we've had 5+ years of accessible 1080p games and have seen how godawfully costly they can be to produced properly (and how astronomically costly it is to even think beyond), the waves of cheapo garbage-y "HD" titles having flooded past... People seem to finally be getting the message a bit more widely: games are an experience. Experiences come in many forms...
Sometimes success can be more damaging than failure, as it might lead management to bite off more than they can chew, whereas a failure teaches management some much needed humility.
Actually Mayhem themselves probably got their band name from a song title from a Venom album, Welcome to Hell (Mayhem With Mercy). Besides, each band member obviously got his alias from song titles of Hellhamer's early EP's, Satanic Rites and Triumph Of Death (Euronymous Maniac, Messiah) and of course Hellhammer.
I truly hope that this game inspires more Build Engine games. This is my absolute favorite engine and Duke Nukem 3D is my favorite video game. Proud to have supported this project since the beginning.
Clint, you've violated your own mantra here for "lazy" game reviews. Completely comprehensive, well-written, and entertaining review that's anything but lazy. Thank you for the chuckles and the info.
This has given me a hankering to fire up Build again! I wish I still had my floppy disk with my terrible attempts to recreate my local mall and the mansion from Resident Evil :(
I just wanted to say, if it hasn't already been said, really nice work on turning the in-game music off for that shopping mall moment. That was a really nice touch. I just completed this area (though using the word "completed" seems entirely inappropriate being that I too am only finding about a third of the secrets before moving on), and it was a very cool moment indeed. Very nice review all round. Have a new Sub!
Thanks for talking about the actual game. :D And yeah, the attention to detail is absolutely amazing. I'm actually quite amazed by it. Fucking crazy what you can cram into 90MB.
Wow your video capture of this game looks great. The verticality and city size of this game seems to have so much potential when modern games like Deus Ex have to shrink things down so much
I was like... "Whaaaat?... How could I miss this game back in the 90s??" Then I realized it's a new game! Ooooo boy... gonna have some fun with this one!
I was really impressed when I watched the video by the level of detail they put into the game. The preview levels were nothing, the cyberpunk city is astounding!
Haven't been to your channel in a while. I like the new intro! PS: Good to see an honest review of this game. Lot's of people are saying the game is "just awesome" (which it is) but, I like to know exactly what I'm getting into before I buy a game, so thanks for the in depth review
they do know that iron maiden originally came from an term of an medieval torture vice so technically they shouldn't trademark an name like that if it is in the history books .
@@Prawnsacrifice dude i did history at school i know what an iron maiden is and i don't need an freshman course either and i do live not far from an history museuum if i want to know more about them.
I love the accidental double-space after copy/pasting "medieval" because you wanted to spell it correctly and went to google to get the right spelling. I applaud the effort. Sincerely.
Duke nukem 3D was the first ever fps I’ve ever played. This brings back so much nostalgia. Especially shooting the fire extinguisher and blowing a hole in the wall.
Did you catch the Jazz Jackrabbit reference in the bar on the first level? It has the name of the Tech Noir zone above the bar on a sign that looks like the dot matrix from Epic Pinball. I only just found out that it doubles as a Terminator reference as well. You can see it more clearly around 3:20
8:37 not gonna lie, seeing that mall segment kinda made me wanna see a build engine, or a DOOM WAD made that recreates Dawn of the dead as a slower paced mall setting shooter or a high speed demake FPS of Dead Raising XD
Wow, excellent! Blood has been my all-time fave fps shooter, and now this great game comes to freshen up the scene! It wouldn't have been so interesting without you excited narration! Thanks for the update!
I also thought they'd go "humadaya" and launch fireballs. That or growl sleepily and leech your health away with hugging motions. And the boss form is basically Tom Hall as Mumm-Ra.
I bought the game yesterday and love it! I am part of that older generation born in 1981 and have played these types of games since they came out. Having a completely new one in 2019 is just pure joy. Great review as always Clint, you are the best.
I got to play this at PAX South this year and was in love immediately. Planning to stream this from end to end as soon as my PC is up and kicking again. Great review as always LGR! :)
Hey, I have an interesting Iron Maiden fact. The "Iron Maiden" as a medieval torture device is entirely fictional. There's no accounts of one ever being used. As you were..
It was used. It was called the apega. It may not have been called "iron maiden" untill modern times but it was the same thing. it only seem like there are no accounts of it being used, because they called it something else, but there are accounts of the device being used.
Did you ever play Iron Storm back in the day? Released in 2002. Alternate history game. World War I never ended and takes place in 1964, the 50th year of the war. Love to see that one in review form. Holy crap. Steam has it for 3 bucks. WW1ish here I come.
Picked up Iron Storm. I usually don't go back and play games from years gone by as to not change the good memories I have with them. This channel is changing my mind. Forgot how unforgiving the game was on realistic. Since the cat is out of the bag I think I am going to look for the first PC game I spent hours and hours playing. Ancient art of war 1984. Wasn't my first PC game but it's the one that sticks out the most looking back.
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6:40 Makabe, Akkaraju, Ishikawa. It warms my soul seeing those Shogo references, another amazing oldie from the early 2000's
Oh wow love the athmosphere in this. And your great description LGR. Thanks! Now I hope for a Carmageddon 1 (1997) expansion with more cars, levels, upgrades and more cars than five in one race!
O . o; Well, shit. I caught sight of "Flynn's Arcade", but I missed that little bit?! Guess I really need to get this game and hunt down them references, although I did see "Damn good coffee" though.
@@AlexanderWilithinIII More a thing like Doctor Jekyl and Mr. Hyde: calm and relaxed, LGR, with his lounge music and deep calmy voice; furious and salty, Civvie, with his sarcasm and RRRRRRRRRRAAAAAWWW memes
Oh man, XM, IT, S3M tracker music was awesome. Unreal introduced me to it. Didn't get a deserving long enough run. Esp since it's still perfect for certain types of music.
Just saw your video and I have to say: Thank you very much for bringing up old memories with this game! Never heard of it, but now I'll buy it, it looks great.
Absolutely AWESOME! Old-school gaming at its very best. You can keep all those cash-grabbing AAA titles - Not one of those can hold a candle to a properly-crafted Build Engine game. I am absolutely buying this one!
This is a trip! A retro games channel, reviewing a completely retro looking game from 3DRealms no less, THAT IS NEW! I had to make sure i understood correctly a few times before i was confident I'm not misunderstanding something.
This is the most excited I've been for a new game release in a *_DECADE!_* I really love that 3DRealms went back to the classic engine and design aesthetic and gave it their all to bring us this masterpiece. Here's hoping this jumpstarts a cascade of excellently-crafted oldschool games to revitalize the industry and make gaming truly entertaining again.
Really glad this turned out so awesome! I noticed the view height is a bit on the low side, I wonder if it's because bombshell is short, or the enemies are just really tall!
"Two Girls, One Co-op"
If 3D Realms doesn't contact you for permission to use that, then they're doing this wrong.
Plus it'd be a better coop game than the new Wolfenstein.
@@DeAthWaGer Although it is only two posts long, this thread is already perfect.
They also need to contact Civvie for the use of the "Murder-pide" enemy name
Very much agreed!!!! Perfect!
another reason why new gen is trash! and 90s was godly.
"Duke's DNA is all over the place" -Clint, 2019
O.o; how did I miss that quote?!
Oh my.
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_"Not remotely what I meant"_ - Amanda Waller
get some
15:15 "2 girls, 1 co-op" That's exactly the kind of humor we're here for, folks. Bravo! You should definitely trademark that :).
Thats a game I'd play for sure lol
I agree
duke nukem, but with boobs.
its surreal to play a game like duke, in the same engine as duke, yet on the other side of the sex coin. and that's awesome.
@Pascal and bring Clint on for some voice-over commentary
When this game gets co-op, it's going to be miles better than the new Wolfenstein co-op game
*Strange man zaps into existence*
Stranger: "I time traveled from the 90s to see what games people are playing 20 years in the future! Please, show me one of your most recent releases."
Me: _hands over Ion Fury_
Stranger: _visible confusion_
I can't express enough how funny I found this
Let’s not forget how WoW classic is a thing
“This is a retro throwback to a long-gone time.”
“Ah. How are recent, more modern games?”
“Erm....”
@@CyberLink70 their still alright. Just bullshitt microtransactions that i never buy
@@CyberLink70 Doom 2016, Doom Eternal, Resident Evil 2 Remake, Final Fantasy VII Remake, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Pathfinder: Kingmaker, Tropico 6, Dragonball FighterZ, Devil May Cry 5...
Good big-budget games exist that aren't bogged down with microtransactions. It's grossly disingenuous to look exclusively at all the "Microtransactions" headlines Jim Sterling puts out and then condemn the entire big-budget industry.
Its crazy how they managed to make a game look period accurate but also surprisngly contemporary too? this game dances a really wonderful line between the two.
“That’s what I’m talkin about. I can’t see $H!+” hahaha. The revolver action in just the first 20 seconds sold me. Buying this. Thanks for the video!
the revolver is probably the best weapon in the game. shotgun is actually way less satisfying due to scattering of the shot (and opposite to DOOM II super shotgun which guarantees monster kill, ion fury shotgun sometime hits and sometimes misses )
LGR, the only place where a game review jumps right away to make graphics worse and CRT monitor. Love it!
José Lages Nice resolution for watching on mobile too (gaming on mobile needs to cater to the insane range of impossible pixel resolutions, but video can skip resolutions that require a microscope).
"worse"
i got three crt's (i need to replace the pots which is not a big deal) and if they didn't need work i would be using one right now and i have a modern system (amd ryzen 2800x, 16 gigs ram, 2 gig hard drive, amd 580 black edition video card and my lovely dvd burners (which will be buried with me). Now to get some free time so i can fix my crt's.
3:35 I died when you went "Now that's what I'm talking 'bout. I can't see sh*t! Exactly how I like my Build engine games" awesome work man
Sprites will never go out of style. Which is why Doom has stood the test of time, even for new players. Pixel, and Sprite based games live on their artistic values.
The guy who invented the iron maiden torture device should sue the band ;) ;)
*The Duke Nukem game that we never got*
Kenneth Bowers he dead
stranger: *surprised Pikachu face*
The Iron Maiden wasn’t an actual device that was used tho
@@juicejumper not only not used but it didn't even exist as an idea, putting spikes in it was the bright idea of a modern place that owned the original thing
@BufoBullfrog all the more case to sue them.
Finally! A new game my PC can actually handle!
Lol yup my laptop is pretty much a lemon but I am pretty excited to finally build my first real gaming pc.
i haven't played the final game yet, but the teaser demo ran at under 60fps on my gaming PC. yay for single core utilisation.
@@ILoveWomen oof, So one would be better off to run on an older machine?
Not really. Minimum gpu is 500mb
@@azalkathegunpowderdragon9439 shhhh Kappa
the children have to learn about tek war sooner or later
NAH. NAAAH. Nobody should learn about Tekwar.
That Matrix level is the reason why I wear glasses nowdays! ¬¬
Civvie did the most comprehensive, thorough and condescending investigation of that game. For the sake of us all.
Some of us got the reference. *thumbs up*
Ah TekWars, that show inspired so much late 90s tech design, I was an industrial design student and for some reason TekWars and similar future based shows were mandatory viewing by the professors. Almost every weirdly amorphous design with bizarre button layouts like that Audible player LGR reviewed recently or basically any phone Nokia released in the first half of the 00s could be traced back to those 90s shows.
@@everythingsgonnabealright8888 Yeah, and I feel sorry for him. I mean, locked in a dungeon, being tortured and even worse: PLAYING THE MATRIX LEVEL FROM FUCKING TEKWAR!
This has "Duke Nukem meets Perfect Dark" all over it
To me personally this has "Duke Nukem Forever as I imagined" all over it :)
It would be nice to get an actual Perfect Dark style FPS with multiple objectives and mission parameters in a single large level. Nobody really makes that kind of game...
Shelly Harrison was originally going to be a side kick / love interest for Duke Nukem. There is old concept art of her from years ago. You could say this game has essentially been in development for 20 years
@@HunterTinsley That sounds like the sort of retro styled shooter an indie dev might eventually tackle. Most retro styled shooters right now are more so following the mold of games like Doom, Quake, and Duke Nukem 3D (though Hedon and Amid Evil also have some Heretic and Hexen, Hedon in particular borrows Hexen 2's style of puzzle solving but without the HUB), in other words they're styled more after PC 90s shooters where progression was based more on key hunting. Console 90s shooters like Goldeneye, Perfect Dark, the PS1 version of Powerslave, Turok 2 (not so much the first one, it was a very key hunt heavy game like PC shooters), and others usually gave specific objectives to complete before finishing a level with keys not always being essential to progression.
Now in no way am I trying to say "key hunting shooters" are a bad thing, I love the majority of them in fact, but as someone who did actually grow up more on console shooters in the 90s than PC shooters, I'd love to see an indie one day make a shooter that specifically aims to recreate the style of gameplay you would have seen from the likes of Goldeneye or Perfect Dark.
I thought the exactly same thing. Ion Fury's atmosphere really reminds of games like Perfect Dark and Deus Ex.
Knowing the limitations of the build engine (i spend hours with it as a kid), it's amazing to see what those guys did with it. Really impressive.
I didn't even know 3DRealms was still around, wow!
Not for long if they anounce Ion Fury Forever next...
@@melaniel.4269 If they from now on deliver the good stuff, I'm okay with that
They're partnering with a bunch of Indie developer nowadays to build and publish some games. They still good. Releasing some good game with no bullshit like microtransaction, etc, etc. Looking forward to Wrath Aeon Of Ruin, Core Decay, GhostRunner and Graven
In 2016 I didnt even realise id software was still around
@@tss1473 they exist only by name really
You know what would be fantastic?
A game with mid-90s to early-2000s aesthetic with a AAA budget.
Since less resources have to go to fidelity, a _lot_ of high quality content can be added. This game with its 3DRealms support is as close of an example as you can get.
Sounds to me like you just described Wrath: Aeon of Ruin. And, wouldn't you know it, it's being published by 3D Realms.
I don't think that would ever be profitable though. Nostalgic geeks are not a mainstream
That's... what I imagined the future would be when I thought about it in 99... How wrong I was...
@@АлексейГриднев-и7р There's a whole lot of market for retro stuff, and we've even seen indie games with horrible graphics achieve notoriety many times. I think it could work perfectly. All they have to do is really focus the budget toward content, rather than graphics.
You mean DooM Eternal?
This is a 2019 Build game WITH soundtrack comprising music modules composed by a demoscene veteran?
Count me in!
Can i ask what a tracker is? You load samples into it to make music?
@@Jarmundx Yes, it's basically a vertical sequencer with sample-based instruments
Bro, I still compose my music using old school trackers. :D If you wish to hear it just look for yuki mikazuki ゆき三日月. :D
This is amazing. The more I hear about this game, the more I love it. ttention AAA developers - THIS is what we want, not all your oh-so-generic boring open-world hyper-monetised lootbox-infested DLC money pits. That stuff is garbage - Ion Fury is what REAL gaming is all about!
I was enraged when I found out that I've been playing Ion Maiden instead of listening to Iron Maiden. Talk about brand confusion!
elFulberto Iron Maiden is still a banging band though I feel like I’m the only person who likes the two :/
@@Bootystank99659 do not worry. You are probably not the only one
i'm no expert, i doubt thats how copyright works
the names are way too similar, it makes perfect sense why a name change was needed.
@@barrelbarry9940 Well, considering that they are entirely different markets brand confusion is nearly impossible. It'd be like Apple suing a Honey Crisp farmer because of calling his products 'Apples.'
Duke 3D was the game that forced me to learn how to aim with a mouse. I was getting by with just a keyboard somehow up until that game. Crazy how hard it was to adapt to new controls like that.
Blood's shopping mall level was one of my favorites as well, especially for multiplayer. There's just so many interesting aspects in open locations where one kind of knows what's where. I'm glad they made a level like that for Ion Fury as well.
This is what the sequel to duke nukem 3D should have been
Galaga_ came here to make this exact comment lol
With the ciborg
No kidding, even if it was 20 years later, it still should've been just like this
@@bologna3048 No, cause dat engine was obsolete due to quake 2 and 3
@@RolandTemplar The engine is super-obsolete today and yet this game is a triumph.
This is my boomstick, it's good to hear there are still Ash Williams quotes in 3D Realms games. I can't wait to get my hands on a copy of this :)
at this point they'd be doing themselves a disservice to NOT call it 2 Girls 1 Co-op
When you finally showed the CRT, i totally lost it and smiled all over my face :)
RIP Total Biscuit. He would have loved this.
:'( miss him too
He was kind of a bastard who told people on the regular to get cancer and die...
Who?
@@willstrick3202 The Cynical Brit. That reviewer with the top-hat logo. Not the worst guy you could find on RUclips. He died of cancer, sadly.
I just want to make sure I understand this correctly.. This guy told someone to get cancer and die, then subsequently got cancer and died?!
Star Wars Dark Forces needs to be redone with this company
Indeed, the sourceport it currently has isn't complete, and DOSBox'ed original is pretty hard to play with no mid-level save or mouselook (have to emulate page up and down keys on mouse - the horror, which screws up menus and still doesn't move right).
I loved that game back in 96, they totally should do that
Yeah, I liked Dark Forces back in the 90s. Basically Doom but strip away the demons and pictures of Hitler and replace with Stormtroopers and frankly bizarre level designs and you've got Dark Forces.
Glad I wasn't the only one who thought of that game while watching this :)
I agree. I mean, DarkXL makes the original DF quite playable on modern systems, but it's still unfinished.
Duke Nukem 3D was the first FPS that I could run at 800x600 resolution and I was astonished how sharp everything looked. The Build engine was surprisingly capable even in its day, but for them to be releasing a new game based on it is slightly bonkers to say the least...
>Game released August 15th
>Video uploaded on August 14th
You know, LGR being a time traveler would explain a LOT about how they find all this retro hardware....
It's the 15th in some time zones already
@@kiplinght Not in LGR timezone though :D
1:52
Yeah, I wonder how he do it :)
CinVerd you must not have watched the video. lGR got a pre release sorta copy, which is mostly finished. And that's why this was uploaded 1 day before. ;P
I thought some of the enemies reminded me of Rise of the Triad, then when I saw the little prisms you pick up all over the maps, it really set in some ROTT for me. I love it!
Having played with the Build’s level editor for about two years, I can only express my admiration for the things, they have managed to do with it. I want a Switch version of this game so badly.
Well it is on the works apparently, when it's coming IDK
Hope you're enjoying it!
Am I the only one who thinks this should stay PC only? Like I get why they are wanting to do it, and from a Business stand point it make sense. But a Build engine game on a PC just feels, wrong. To me anyway. Still haven't beating Ion Fury but I love it. It also reminds me of 5 year me playing Duke Nukem for hours a day
I also wanna stress to curious onlookers that if you play this game without javing the nostalgia from younger years running with you, you may still be surprised at how good and fun level/enemy/weapon design in a game that gives you control at all times can hook you in.
I miss games with complex level design. Shouldn't we have moved towards increased and improved complexity instead of levels devolving into aesthetically pretty simple hallways?
Wow, I'm impressed with the reload animations and art in general, considering the age of the engine. I wish the enemy death animations had more frames, so they'd look as smooth as the guns.
I'd put $ on that being a stylistic choice. An homage if you will. I for one like it. Its those lil details that they've held back on that really sell this game. They could have very easily made this game all high res. super hd blah blah blah. But they chose not to and I would argue that knowing what NOT to overdo properly is more difficult than making them look amazing. An extra frame or two maybe but I like what they've done here.
An excellent example that art direction > graphics.
@@thegenerousdegenerate9395
I agree they really nailed an "of the era" feel and made it fresh experience.
Yeah, I would have liked it if they took the same approach as Brutal Doom, with it's silky smooth animation. But I can understand the aesthetic choice.
Go figure. 3d Realms spent all that lost time making Duke Nukem Forever and losing the IP, when all they needed to do was make a new build engine based Duke.
The final DNF wasn't really what they had made.
Timing. Timing is so damn important in this industry (and luck with the whims of the consumers, honestly). Not sure if a retro shooter like this would have fared well in sales 10 years ago juuuust as 1080p gaming was starting to become "a thing" affordable to most people and was all the hype. Might have even looked like a desperate move by a broken company.
Now that we've had 5+ years of accessible 1080p games and have seen how godawfully costly they can be to produced properly (and how astronomically costly it is to even think beyond), the waves of cheapo garbage-y "HD" titles having flooded past... People seem to finally be getting the message a bit more widely: games are an experience. Experiences come in many forms...
I think he means in 1998 they should have done this. Not in 2011.
@@MlninPricl you got it, man!
Sometimes success can be more damaging than failure, as it might lead management to bite off more than they can chew, whereas a failure teaches management some much needed humility.
I've always wanted to make my own build engine game. They have such a unique charm to them, I love the aesthetic of it all.
They should have renamed it Ion Mayhem, keeping the initials.
Mayhem is also a band.
Actually Mayhem themselves probably got their band name from a song title from a Venom album, Welcome to Hell (Mayhem With Mercy). Besides, each band member obviously got his alias from song titles of Hellhamer's early EP's, Satanic Rites and Triumph Of Death (Euronymous Maniac, Messiah) and of course Hellhammer.
@@autumn_of_thought Love me some first wave black metal. Also, there should be a game called Mayhem 3D. Varg Vikernes is the final boss.
@@snow-puppetsofficial360 I'd buy that.
Ion Megan would sound virtually identical.
They should release a shareware edition of this too
Seconded, after all 90s shooters flourished well thanks to the shareware model
That would be amazing. All on floppy-disk shaped USB drives
@@chasenthehype Like these you mean xD ruclips.net/video/f72fc4hBrrs/видео.html
Andreas Lifh oh myyyyyy gawwwd. Now I have to explain this purchase. Amazing 🎉
Chasen The Hype Why not real superfloppies (like the ~100MB ones that enjoyed some popularity in the late 1990s).
"I can"t see S***" that sir, made me laugh way too hard
You can say shit!
Is that a bio menace arcade machine? Oh boy, someone call Civvie...
He isn't a fan of snakes.
Pro _____ when, Civvie?
Loved that damn game.
He knows.
@@MarkyShaw I really liked the first episode. Episodes 2 and 3 killed me. ¬¬
I truly hope that this game inspires more Build Engine games. This is my absolute favorite engine and Duke Nukem 3D is my favorite video game. Proud to have supported this project since the beginning.
Clint, you've violated your own mantra here for "lazy" game reviews. Completely comprehensive, well-written, and entertaining review that's anything but lazy. Thank you for the chuckles and the info.
Dan Bell abandoned mall Ion Fury crossover when
underrated comment
"Two girls, one co-op..."
That one made my day. XD
This has given me a hankering to fire up Build again! I wish I still had my floppy disk with my terrible attempts to recreate my local mall and the mansion from Resident Evil :(
I still have a book that teaches you how to use the engine to build levels.
Oh man something about 90’s era 3D in modern HD just looks so good. Like it has the same aesthetic but everything is so nice and clear
I just wanted to say, if it hasn't already been said, really nice work on turning the in-game music off for that shopping mall moment. That was a really nice touch. I just completed this area (though using the word "completed" seems entirely inappropriate being that I too am only finding about a third of the secrets before moving on), and it was a very cool moment indeed.
Very nice review all round. Have a new Sub!
Thanks for talking about the actual game. :D
And yeah, the attention to detail is absolutely amazing. I'm actually quite amazed by it. Fucking crazy what you can cram into 90MB.
"Two girls and one Coop"
FFS LGR, i have spent years and years trying to forget the moment one of my "friends" showed me that video...
@Cheeki Mc Breeki ✌🏼 ""Chocolate""✌🏼
The one-liners alone sold me. I plan on getting the box edition. That nostalgic feeling... "Two Girls, One Co-OP" LMAO.
Shopping mall is why Dead Rising 1 is so awesome !
Agreed! Also loved the mall areas in DR2.
Wow your video capture of this game looks great. The verticality and city size of this game seems to have so much potential when modern games like Deus Ex have to shrink things down so much
I was like... "Whaaaat?... How could I miss this game back in the 90s??" Then I realized it's a new game! Ooooo boy... gonna have some fun with this one!
@6:43 Love the shout out to SHOGO Mobile Armour Devision
That caught my eye too! I had to rewind to see if I saw it correctly!
My friend and I used to play the holy living crap outta that game when we were both in high school.
6:41 Why do they have to remind us that a sequel to Shogo: Mobile Armor Division was never made?!
loved that damn game. Would be amazing if they ever resurrected that title.
@@doomboots I wonder if it's in IP rights hell like some of Monolith's other games (No One Lives Forever, etc).
@@doomboots , let us hope that 3D Realms buys you back first, then you can worry about that later.
@@paxhumana2015 I've got balls of, feels?
I was about to comment on that.
"I can't see shit!"
Clint you're awesome.
Crazy how it's been already 4 years, and I still play this game.
yea and still waiting on the expansion too. maybe it wants to live up to the DNF legacy
We're about 5 years away from early PS2/Xbox era games getting their homage. Can't wait.
R d Faction 1 & 2 please
@@EndlessFunctionality Definitely 1, not so much 2.
Hopeful.
This proves it. I am not just a retro games snob. The aesthetic of this game is just more interesting than "modern" stuff.
"Creativity is the key!"
Plus no loot boxes, no Microtransactions & trying to monitise the living daylights out of you... ah, those were the days!
I was really impressed when I watched the video by the level of detail they put into the game. The preview levels were nothing, the cyberpunk city is astounding!
Took this game to prove it? That's a pity.
Kristopher Tadlock
Not really. It’s a fun nostalgic throwback but modern games are more varied and have more going on.
"two girls one co-op"
dear god clint you've killed me
That was bad and Clint should feel bad.
@@Kawa-oneechan clackety clack
@@Kawa-oneechan fuck no he shouldn't
What?! It's already Friday!? Wow, this week flew by.
you legitimately made me go look on my calendar 😂😂😂
@@nicolas_h9090 I did aswell. Guess i won't be off work tommorow!
@@j0rpi 😂😂😂😂😂
What can I say? LGR is just a partly of my weekly routine.
@@TheAtoll samE
3:08 name of this bar "tech-noir" like in Terminator I 😁
Jirka Attiny I think it's also a Jazz Jackrabbit reference. The bar name _is_ displayed over the counter on the dot matrix from Epic Pinball.
Haven't been to your channel in a while. I like the new intro!
PS: Good to see an honest review of this game. Lot's of people are saying the game is "just awesome" (which it is) but, I like to know exactly what I'm getting into before I buy a game, so thanks for the in depth review
Can't wait to finally play the full version! I'm waiting for my steam preview copy to update to the full game :D
they do know that iron maiden originally came from an term of an medieval torture vice so technically
they shouldn't trademark an name like that if it is in the history books .
You should look into that youl find it's a common misconception that iron maidens are from the medevil era you know
@@Prawnsacrifice dude i did history at school i know what an iron maiden is and
i don't need an freshman course either and i do live not far from an history museuum
if i want to know more about them.
@@centrevezgaming4862 I just thought It was an interesting piece of trivia 😁👍
@@centrevezgaming4862 funny they don't even reckon there were used as a torture device either 😅
I love the accidental double-space after copy/pasting "medieval" because you wanted to spell it correctly and went to google to get the right spelling. I applaud the effort. Sincerely.
Duke nukem 3D was the first ever fps I’ve ever played. This brings back so much nostalgia. Especially shooting the fire extinguisher and blowing a hole in the wall.
Did you catch the Jazz Jackrabbit reference in the bar on the first level? It has the name of the Tech Noir zone above the bar on a sign that looks like the dot matrix from Epic Pinball. I only just found out that it doubles as a Terminator reference as well. You can see it more clearly around 3:20
8:37 not gonna lie, seeing that mall segment kinda made me wanna see a build engine, or a DOOM WAD made that recreates Dawn of the dead as a slower paced mall setting shooter or a high speed demake FPS of Dead Raising XD
"Yum yum yum!"
I feel comparisons between Shelly and the Blazkowicz Sisters are inbound!
This looks awesome. Great video! Looking forward to the console release
How the hell can this review have more dislikes than like. It's a great review of a great game.
2 girls, 1co-op. Make it happen.
Yo,wassup?
Great review! Love the fact that you actually have good knowledge about the Build Engine and the Build Editor. Really adds to the review!
Wow, excellent! Blood has been my all-time fave fps shooter, and now this great game comes to freshen up the scene! It wouldn't have been so interesting without you excited narration! Thanks for the update!
Tekwar gets so much flak but I freaking LOVED that game back then!
I only played the demo back then but I remember playing it over and over again. My PC struggled with it tho.
This kind of game can't dream of a better badge of approval than an LGR recommendation
I kept expecting those guys in cloaks to yell "MARANAX INFIRMUX!"
;-)
AAAAAAHH
I also thought they'd go "humadaya" and launch fireballs. That or growl sleepily and leech your health away with hugging motions. And the boss form is basically Tom Hall as Mumm-Ra.
AAAAAAA, IT BURNS IT BURNS, AAAAA
Damn, I had fun livestreaming this yesterday. Had 3 hours of fun on the first part of the game! And I only completed the first chapter :)
And u like Shelly?
@@RolandTemplar I love her, Bombshelly
@@Dosgamert even.with happened.with Resetera?
I bought the game yesterday and love it! I am part of that older generation born in 1981 and have played these types of games since they came out. Having a completely new one in 2019 is just pure joy.
Great review as always Clint, you are the best.
I got to play this at PAX South this year and was in love immediately. Planning to stream this from end to end as soon as my PC is up and kicking again. Great review as always LGR! :)
Hey, I have an interesting Iron Maiden fact.
The "Iron Maiden" as a medieval torture device is entirely fictional. There's no accounts of one ever being used.
As you were..
It was used. It was called the apega. It may not have been called "iron maiden" untill modern times but it was the same thing. it only seem like there are no accounts of it being used, because they called it something else, but there are accounts of the device being used.
Did you ever play Iron Storm back in the day?
Released in 2002. Alternate history game. World War I never ended and takes place in 1964, the 50th year of the war.
Love to see that one in review form.
Holy crap. Steam has it for 3 bucks. WW1ish here I come.
LKNANML Ever seen the Valerian episode that takes place in a WW1 western front scenario?
@@johnfrancisdoe1563 I'm drawing a blank on that one but you have my attention. More info please!
Picked up Iron Storm. I usually don't go back and play games from years gone by as to not change the good memories I have with them. This channel is changing my mind. Forgot how unforgiving the game was on realistic. Since the cat is out of the bag I think I am going to look for the first PC game I spent hours and hours playing. Ancient art of war 1984. Wasn't my first PC game but it's the one that sticks out the most looking back.
6:40 Makabe, Akkaraju, Ishikawa. It warms my soul seeing those Shogo references, another amazing oldie from the early 2000's
Oh wow love the athmosphere in this. And your great description LGR. Thanks!
Now I hope for a Carmageddon 1 (1997) expansion with more cars, levels, upgrades and more cars than five in one race!
6:19 Bennet's Steam Let ing Co.
If that didn't make chuckle even silently, you have no pulse.
I didn't even chuckle, solely because I didn't see it.
BULLSHIT
O . o; Well, shit. I caught sight of "Flynn's Arcade", but I missed that little bit?! Guess I really need to get this game and hunt down them references, although I did see "Damn good coffee" though.
@@KyosukeShigeru And Flynn's Arcade was in a Tech Noir club so this has got them references. Only Rain Man can spot them all.
Ah yes, a perfect meal before Civvie's inevitable feast.
Yep. Civvie will love this
What? Are you telling me they aren't related?
I am... SHOCKED.
@@Bazhorin So you're saying Civvie is just imprisoned LGR sending us videos from a dystopian future? I can get down with that.
@@AlexanderWilithinIII More a thing like Doctor Jekyl and Mr. Hyde: calm and relaxed, LGR, with his lounge music and deep calmy voice; furious and salty, Civvie, with his sarcasm and RRRRRRRRRRAAAAAWWW memes
@@n-azure981 he already does. He's played the preview campaign a year ago in his defenders of the faith video.
A Build FPS, MOD music... it's the best kind of time capsule.
yea mod music for the win !!
Oh man, XM, IT, S3M tracker music was awesome. Unreal introduced me to it.
Didn't get a deserving long enough run. Esp since it's still perfect for certain types of music.
Xorn Still got dedicated players on my phone.
Just saw your video and I have to say: Thank you very much for bringing up old memories with this game! Never heard of it, but now I'll buy it, it looks great.
3:11 "This can't be good for me but I feel great!"
Absolutely AWESOME! Old-school gaming at its very best. You can keep all those cash-grabbing AAA titles - Not one of those can hold a candle to a properly-crafted Build Engine game. I am absolutely buying this one!
Its $35.95Au so its not cheap but for what you get and all the work that's gone into it it seems worth it!
0:46 "The kids have to learn about Tek War sooner or later
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CIVVIE 11 youtube channel.
I have a grin on my face while I watch this. Your review sold me on the game, excited to play it now! Thanks!
This is a trip!
A retro games channel, reviewing a completely retro looking game from 3DRealms no less, THAT IS NEW!
I had to make sure i understood correctly a few times before i was confident I'm not misunderstanding something.
Today is my actual real birthday. Thank you for this gift, Clinty B!
Happy Birthday! :)
Happy Birthday!
"We're taking over this town"
*Cowboys from hell intensifies*
I looove the design of those Roland speakers. Great review.
' 2 girls 1 coop' The petition needs to go live NOW
I wonder if this game would work on Build-era appropriate hardware.
@@thelvadam5269 holy shi-
How has "2 girls 1 co-op" not been used before today? Brilliance.
would love to see an rpg on this engine.
Yeah, I'd like to see that too. On paper there's no reason why it couldn't happen, but it's certainly not built for it.
@@russiangoose7053 The thought occurred to me too, how fun would a Daggerfall um.. similar game be
@@braidena1633 Like the RPG made on Id Tech 1, Strife, same thing, just using the Build Engine
This is the most excited I've been for a new game release in a *_DECADE!_* I really love that 3DRealms went back to the classic engine and design aesthetic and gave it their all to bring us this masterpiece. Here's hoping this jumpstarts a cascade of excellently-crafted oldschool games to revitalize the industry and make gaming truly entertaining again.
Really glad this turned out so awesome! I noticed the view height is a bit on the low side, I wonder if it's because bombshell is short, or the enemies are just really tall!
Amid Evil, Dust & Ion Fury reminds me how fun and creative fps games were back in the day. We definitely need more games like them today.