But as a focused test of skill Nexuiz is like suddenly adding Mario Kart power-ups to Forza Motorsport.There are numerous other problems with the game though, most of which can be boiled down to either a lack of features or simply a lack of personality. There’s no story or puzzle-solving in an arena shooter, just pure action. Mutators are collected as power-ups and can have any of over a hundred different effects, from gifting you a jetpack, to changing the power of your weapons, switching the gravity or just turning on silly cheats such as big head mode.You’ve probably already guessed the problem though: because of the random nature of the Mutators they can instantly unbalance a game and anyone that loses can happily claim that it was because they didn’t get the right Mutator. It’s still a concept stolen from Unreal Tournament (the game’s other main inspiration) but at least it’s one rarely used in other games. None of it is broken – despite the faster pace of arena shooters never really working on a joypad it’s all perfectly playable – but it is painfully generic and uninteresting.The one and only deviation from the norm is the concept of Mutators.
GAMES LIKE NEXUIZ MODS
But whatever appeal the original game and its endless series of mods might have had the best creators have not been retained (in fact there seems to have been a schism within the community, brought on in part by this paid-for console version).Instead the game is a miserable collection of badly designed levels, boring weapons, clichéd game modes, and ugly art design.
Given how much first person shooters have evolved, since the first online variants appeared all those years ago, a purposefully old school arena shooter should be a welcome relief from the norm.
But we suspect most gamers will still feel they’ve been had.
GAMES LIKE NEXUIZ FOR FREE
You can still download the original game for free here and you’ll get plenty of change from a tenner downloading this new console version. No one’s even talking about a sequel to Quake, but Nexuiz clearly remembers the day when id Software ruled the first person shooter world and Duke Nukem 3D was as realistic as military shooters got.Nexuiz has a strange history itself, starting on the PC in 2005 as a fan made, open source shooter using an enhanced version of the original Quake graphics engine.
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