A thousand cheers for the old-school FPS revival! Spearheaded by New Blood Interactive and 3D Realms (sure, that 3D Realms), the final 5 or so years has seen a slew of fantastic, ultra-fast, 2.5D shooters which have so efficiently captured the mid-90s joie de vivre, whereas sneaking in trendy concepts like physics, dynamic lighting, and functioning mouse controls.
Whereas there are so many to suggest, like Gloomwood, Amid Evil, Cultic, and Ion Fury, we’re choosing the poster baby for your entire motion, Nightfall.
Like most, this manic shooter pitches itself on that Doom-to-Duke Nukem axis, one of the best type of nostalgic, the place it performs how we bear in mind these video games feeling, reasonably than how they actually have been. Which is to say, numerous clunkiness is eliminated, physics make the world extra tangible, and the artwork is way more concerned than was ever potential three many years in the past.
Nevertheless it’s greater than nostalgia: Nightfall is a very good shooter in its personal proper, and one which will get progressively higher the extra you play. Stage design begins nice, however goes to majestic locations, together with a superb vary of enemies, weapons, and even deadly cleaning soap.