I love a good neo-retro shooter, and Ion Fury is a good neo-retro shooter. It yanks the BUILD engine into 2019 and made some great levels with it. Detailed, interesting environments, weapons that feel great, and lots of enemies to blow up. I’m fairly annoyed by the fact most weapons need to be reloaded and there’s no indication of how much ammo is in your magazine, but the bulk of the game is fun.
The rest of this review will be looking at some of the atmospheric humor. Shelly doesn’t really cut one-liners throughout the game like Duke Nukem does so this is sort of the only humor to it.
I took three screenshots of stuff on walls, and this is easily the best. A little mashup of two of my favorite things, Doom and Taco Bell. It’s not really that funny, just referencing things I recognize.
Here’s another reference to a thing I recognize but don’t like. The Room is a terrible movie and it’s got a notorious reputation as such, and so this is really not going to hit with a lot of people. It’s still just referencing thing I recognize. Zero humor.
This one is really missing the mark. Beyond the main character, this game has no women, much less android girls. This is posted up in a room that turns zombies into piles of meat. This is just here for the player to say “ha ha, finger stuck in mechanical pussy.” It’s original Shadow Warrior levels of bad humor.
I pulled these out because some other less funny things were removed from the game, and then 3D Realms made some statement about not censoring games. I’m not a fan of censoring games just as I’m not a fan of bad attempts at humor. Whether these posters are funny is up to the player, but I hope their next attempts are punched up a lot. These are, at best, non-jokes that apparently could’ve gone way worse.
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