What did jump out at me was how shiny everything is in Nexuiz. This design choice didn’t exactly jump out at me while I was playing the game, one minute the game looks like the slick, futuristic Mass Effect and the next minute the Art Nouveau styling’s of Bioshock make and appearance. The style that Nexuiz is apparently going for is a “futuristic, Victorian art style”.
While at times managing to be technically impressive, the game lacks the sort of consistency that pulls all the elements together to create a believable world. The rustic, futuristic and even ancient all make an appearance here, all melding together to leave something of a stodgy mess. Upon first glance it is pretty difficult to pin down the visual style Nexuiz is trying to portray, as it is a real mixed bag. It’s a story well used by Unreal Tournament, and to be fair it is only there to justify the fighting that is going on in front of you, but a little originality wouldn’t have gone amiss. At some point in the far future there was a devastating interstellar war, after the war – when the dust had settled – the two factions were forced to fight for the entertainment of the rest of the galaxy, and thus the Nexuiz Competition was born. The story behind Nexuiz is one you have no doubt heard before.
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Since then numerous updates and additions have been made to the game until eventually, in July 2010, the game was taken up by developer Illfonic to be developed into a full console release, this time using the more up to date Cryengine 3.
Nexuiz single player gameplay Pc#
The first version of Nexuiz was released for PC back in 2005 and used a heavily modified version of the Quake engine. The Nexuiz that we see today has been a long time coming. Nexuiz is an old school all-action arena shooter, but does it still feel relevant in our world of classes and enormous battlefields? Today FPS fans have a variety of deep and engaging games to choose from to get their frag fix, but there was a time when an FPS game was a far simpler beast.Įnter Nexuiz, a shooter that rejects class systems, levelling up and a complex story in favour of big guns, crazy pickups and mad physics. Since the monumental release of Halo: Combat Evolved on the Xbox in 2001 changed our expectations, developers have been coming up with ways to keep the genre interesting, adding all manner of gimmicks, quirky gameplay ideas and elements that you might consider to be clichéd or necessities, depending on your opinion of the genre. Available on: Xbox LIVE Arcade, PlayStation Network, Steam, (Reviewed via Xbox LIVE Arcade)įirst Person Shooters have come a long way in the last decade or so.
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