

Quite the compliment for an indie game, don't you think?
Fury unleashed metacritic software#
The way this forces you to play aggressively (but not recklessly) makes it feel like the recent id Software masterpiece, DOOM Eternal. Apart from raising the reload speed, your critical chance and damage, and many more, this system also ensures you get some armour points - very important since there's no other way to protect yourself from harm.

Note, though, that this isn't just a "simple" shooter.įury Unleashed is a combo-centric game, with each kill raising a counter, which in turn increases the rate the three types of 'Ink' drop, which are divided between experience Ink for your passive skill tree, currency for buying equipment, and, of course health Ink. The bosses are even more over-the-top gargantuan towers of flesh or metal, or, why not, both, these almost bullet hell encounters will really put your ninja skills to the test, as you try to dodge bullets, rockets, beams, etc. There's a great variety of baddies to face, and they are never alone, so one must be able to keep many balls in the air while fighting them. There's a reason why the standard difficulty mode is 'Hard,' with even easy being able to give you a run for your money.Īfter the first stage, or "page," which provides enough room to learn the ropes, you are thrown into an arena filled with fire-spiting traps and sharp blades, with enemies that shoot, throw bombs, try to ram you, appear when you least expect them, and even explode upon their death. Besides being able to shoot at all directions, he is super fast, can dash, run like Sonic, stomp enemies like Mario, lob grenades, use a variety of super moves, or hack 'n' slash his way towards the end of each stage - and you need to become a master in using all these, because the enemies you'll face won't show any mercy. This is all about shooting at stuff, and enjoying the vibrantly colourful fireworks. Worry not violent, trigger-happy action fanatics - while enjoyable, this is the tiny tip of an iceberg made out of pure gameplay. Instead, the occasional intermission will speak of the comic book artist behind everything around him (including him), and his struggle with finding the necessary incentive to keep this place "alive." Surprisingly, there's an actual plot here, but it's not about Fury.

He runs around the place shooting at demonic Aztec warlords, undead mages, and monstrous plants in a tropical jungle, goes on to blow up Wolfenstein-like Übermensch in a futuristic Nazi complex, and then tries his luck with laser-spitting alien scum… and then some. Fury, the armed-to-the-teeth protagonist of the comic book world the player will brave, is the distilled essence of '90s blockbuster action.
