The maps are well laid out and a lot of fun to explore. In general, Prodeus is more forgiving and intuitive than the original breed of FPS was. Still, I didn't come across any moments where that was immediately fatal, bar the previously mentioned cliff/lava incident. If you're not very aware of your surroundings, that can mean accidentally stepping into something that's going to do you damage. After the first couple of levels, you find yourself having to move around almost constantly to avoid taking damage. With extra speed comes increased chances to make mistakes. That is until you run straight off a cliff into a pit of lava, then you feel like a complete melon.Īs a British person, I found this part quite trigger right now. It makes you feel like some demi-god, thundering around the world raining death on your enemies. There's a certain fluidity to the way you belt around levels like Sonic the Hedgehog, mowing down weaker enemies with your Gatling gun before spinning 180 degrees and switching to a rocket launcher to blast away a giant floating demon testicle. That's probably the thing that makes Prodeus, so fun to play. This means that you midway through an intense firefight with hordes of demons, you can freeze time to swap up your weapon. Your entire arsenal can be viewed and selected from at any time, and while you're on the selection screen, the game is frozen around you. Much like the graphics, the gameplay of Prodeus has a few modern tweaks. You move at a breakneck speed around the maps, have to collect colored keys to make it through doors and barriers, and you're carrying more guns than is reasonable.
Playing Prodeus, you get used to seeing hallways that look like this once you're done.Īs old-school shooters inspired Prodeus, it has a lot of similarities to FPS games of the mid-90s. It also seems pretty unlikely that any 90s computer would have been powerful enough to display this amount of eviscerated demon guts without exploding. There's proper mouse-look that doesn't make the textures freak out for a starter. Unlike many games that try to limit themselves to a particular gaming era, Prodeus isn't scared of using all of the modern bells and whistles that games like Doom and Duke Nukem 3D couldn't manage.
If it wasn't already clear from the last time I got the chance to gush about Prodeus, the game looks stunning. Now a new contender enters the ring as it finally enters early access: Prodeus. With more gore than even Brutal Doom managed to include, Prodeus doesn't lack in dazzling visuals, but as we get a complete picture of the game, does it live up to the legacy of the game it's aping? Since then, several games have capitalized on classic shooters' revival, such as Ion Fury, Dusk, and Wrath: Aeon of Ruin. The 90s may have been the era of guts and gore thanks to games like Doom and Blood, but if Doom 2016 proved anything, it's that there's still room left in the world for some excessively gory action games.
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