![]() ![]() The stage design does take a while to take off. Prodeus‘s version of the super shotgun has four barrels, you can alt-fire to hit something with all four shells at once, and doing so turns the target into a modern art project. You can track your passage through each level by the gore you’ve left behind, especially once you’ve unlocked some of the more destructive weapons. The first couple of times I killed a monster in a confined space, I thought I heard another enemy’s footsteps afterward, but it was actually the sound of the last demon’s corpse bits bouncing off the walls.Įven better, demons’ bodies disappear in Prodeus, but bloodstains don’t. Every enemy in Prodeus takes location damage, can be dismembered, has multiple death animations, and will splatter if hit hard enough. Most importantly, Prodeus has some of the most satisfying kills I’ve ever seen in an FPS. Exploring each level reveals hidden ore samples you can exchange for upgrades, like a double-jump or the weirder guns. The soundtrack is heavy industrial the stages are nicely cluttered and vertical and every weapon has a useful alt-fire mode. Prodeus sets itself apart from Doom in a lot of little ways. If you showed a hardcore shooter fan Prodeus footage and told them it was a new Brutal Doom, they’d believe you. The primary enemies are close matches with Doom‘s rank-and-file demons (Fiends are Imps, Bloaters are Cacodemons, Skull Fish are Lost Souls, etc.), your initial arsenal is similar, and it has an onscreen character portrait that gets increasingly skeletal as your health drops. This is a critical comparison, because Prodeus comes off like a particularly thorough total conversion mod for Doom. The plot is about as relevant moment-to-moment as Doom‘s. This will, happily, require you to shoot everything you see. Initially, you’re out to shoot everything you see, but then you get the chance to shut down the Order/Chaos incursion. You’re one of the last human survivors, turned into a cyborg by Prodean technology. I think researchers experimenting with alien technology have turned a human mining colony into a warfront between demons (Chaos) and aliens (Order also, the titular Prodeus). The story of Prodeus is nearly irrelevant. Prodeus Review: That’s One Doomed Space Marine For everyone else, it’s going to depend on your tolerance for speed, speed metal, and high-speed murder. If your idea of a good time in an FPS is circle-strafing at Mach 10 while you hot-swap between a dozen guns to turn an army of demons into angry paint, then Prodeus was made for you. That being said, Prodeus is an ideal example of the subgenre. I don’t care for the term "boomer shooter." Actual Boomers, in my experience, play ultra-realistic military action games, ideally set in World War II. By that metric, Prodeusis a version of Doom that we could only imagine existing in the ’90s. There’s a difference between how you remember a genre, he said, and how playing it actually felt. ![]() Version 1.The 2020s resurgence of "boomer shooters" continues with Prodeus, one of the best examples of the subgenre, and one of the best games in it, period.Ī few years ago, while discussing a couple of retro-styled strategy games, a friend made an interesting distinction. ![]() Frag to the Music – Burst blood vessels listening to a supercharged metal soundtrack by retro first-person shooter composer Andrew Hulshult ( DOOM Eternal: The Ancient Gods, DUSK, Amid Evil) that dynamically changes gears to accompany your actions.Take on the campaign in four-player co-op, and dive into the fray in 16-player Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, CTF, and more-then take things to the next level by creating and sharing custom game modes. Multiplayer Mayhem – Team up and go head-to-head in a variety of multiplayer modes.Community-Crafted Levels – Unleash your inner map designer with Prodeus‘ powerful but easy-to-use level editor*, and keep the visceral combat fresh with a built-in browser filled with community-created maps.Experience the gory thrills of the elder shooters, dialed up to 11 thanks to Prodeus‘ delightfully demented dismemberment system. Raining Red – Splatter the steel walls and alien halls with the blood of your enemies.Blast and blaze your way through hordes of chaos-spawned creatures using an arsenal of classically over-the-top weapons. Pure Retro First-Person Shooter Chaos – Steel yourself for fast and frantic nonstop action.Experience over-the-top explosions of lo-fi pixels and hi-tech particle effects as you clash against the Prodeans and forces of Chaos. Retro Look, Modern Era – Shooters past and present collide with graphics that combine today’s high-quality 3D tech with retro visuals.This is the Boomer Shooter you’ve been waiting for. ![]()
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