![]() The music too is appropriately thrashing when getting into combat, assaulting your ears with violent guitar strains as the floor becomes stained with claret. If you blow them up entirely with a more powerful weapon, such as a rocket launcher, they’ll create a gory explosion, splattering blood everywhere and totally soaking the floor and any walls nearby. Every time you blast a tougher opponent with a shotgun, progressively more of its limbs will fly off, creating satisfying gouts of blood. It’s the level of lovingly rendered gore that really puts the blood-soaked cherry on the proverbial sundae. The canyons, caverns, towering power plants, toxic waste disposal facilities, military bases and factories all feel even more bleak and oppressive than a brutalist London apartment block from the 1970s. There’s a full commitment to creating a grimy industrial hell world here. You can demake the visuals even further if you wish, lowering the resolution of the scenery down to 360p or even 240p! Prodeus has a unique visual style where modern dynamic lighting and particle effects mingle with a “demake” effect on enemies, weapons and scenery, making them artificially pixellated. The grimy, brutal feel of Prodeus will definitely be its biggest appeal for many and it delivers on this point with gusto. There’s a protagonist who can carry unfeasibly vast amounts of ammo, and run as fast as a car without getting tired, with a handy illustration of his face on the bottom to signify how wounded he’s gotten. Prodeus will feel instantly familiar to any lover of the past and present Doom games. After each level you move across an overworld to the next one where you’ll have to find keys to doors, flip switches, destroy some things and head to the exit, killing everything in your path. There’s no one to talk to, no help on the way and nothing to do other than gun down every masked trooper and monster in your way. The land is an endless greyish-orange industrial hellscape. In short order, you flick a switch, escape from your cell, pick up a gun and start shooting zombies and monsters. ![]() You’re in some sort of prison cell in a techno-nightmare world as fire rages outside. Prodeus starts with no explanation or fanfare. Prodeus takes the boomer shooter philosophy and turns it into borderline religious dogma, and you can tell this right from the start. The advent of the “boomer shooter” has become something of a phenomenon in recent years: scaling back the cinematic presentation, regenerating health and more “realistic” aesthetic of more modern FPS titles in favour of some old-fashioned run n’ gun fun. ![]()
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