#NEXUIZ YOUTUBE PC#
#NEXUIZ YOUTUBE SERIES#

#NEXUIZ YOUTUBE SERIES#

My first games (before I turned 10, mind you) were Duke Nukem 3D, then Doom, and then the Quake Series starting with 2. I still play Quake Live somtimes and it's still the best.Īgreed.

#NEXUIZ YOUTUBE PC#

With good reason they are boring as fuck!Not if you played PC games in the late 90s. I could never really get into arena shooters. This game is crazy Neapolitan through and through, with a sense of mad glee for how frequently and flagrantly it breaks the rules.The moment it comes out on Steam I'm getting this, I love fast paced shooters.Yeah, wasn't a huge fan of Q3A, but loved QuakeWorld and UT99 (and even UT3), I'll probably pick it up on both PSN and Steam, despite nobody ever playing any games on PSN.

But once you start to appreciate the mutators, and especially the way they affect the flag in capture the flag games, you won’t call anything in Nexuiz vanilla. It might seem limiting that you can only play with two teams of up to four players, and that the only game modes are vanilla deathmatch and vanilla capture the flag. But it does give Nexuiz a mild sense of persistance without veering into the full-blown RPG elements that are anathema to an arena shooter. This is a strictly long-term prospect considering the sheer number of mutators and how slowly you earn points. Plunging four enemy bots to their death with the evil summons mutator isn’t nearly as satisfying as doing it to guys on Xbox Live with names like thrillkilla667, hijumpboy, isnipeu, and teh_d3mon.Īs you play online matches, you earn points you can use to push die rolls toward your favorite mutators. However, Nexuiz fares best as a game about human players trumping other human players, and being trumped in turn.

You can play games against bots, which are certainly good enough to make this a viable single-player game (although it’s disappointing that you can’t include bots in multiplayer games). But there’s some real craft to how effectively the mutators mix up the game and how well they’re integrated into such fast gameplay. We’re all thinking it, so I might as well say it: this is pretty much Unreal Tournament 2004, even if it is made with the Crysis engine. The basic gameplay and graphics are familiar almost to a fault. Why would you ever want to do that? Maybe because you’re falling to your death and you want some company. Or - my personal favorite - instantly summon the enemy team to your location. Instantly summon the rest of your team to give an opponent a nasty surprise. When the other team hits you with a crippling mutator, flip it back at them. There’s a mutator for each of the weapons that gives you a superpowered version of that weapon.īut then there are the truly tricky mutators. Some of them alter the graphics, or sound effects, or lighting. Some of them change the rules of scoring, spawning, or even physics. These mutators, as they’re called, are many and varied. But Nexuiz isn’t content with the usual stuff. Unlimited ammo, extra speed, higher jumping, invisibility, and so forth.

You’re probably imagining what some of these power might be, and you’re right. A little chaos and control at your fingertips. It’s a bit like Mario Kart for how it’s very random and very powerful, capable of flipping the balance of any situation on its end. You can hang on to them as long as you like, firing off your chosen power - you only get to use one of them! - when the time is right. They then loiter on the lower right side of the screen until you pick which one of them to use. It’s like a pull on a slot machine, and three powers randomly appear. Nexuiz works by the same principle, but instead of predetermined powers you get for a killstreak, you basically roll the dice. These occasional breaks in the usual running and gunning are partly what makes Call of Duty great. Now you can see the other team through walls, or you can drop an explosion directly onto the map, or you can drive a tiny bomb around, or you can summon dogs or helicopters. You could say these powers break the rules of the game. When you get a killstreak in Call of Duty, you unlock a special power. This game, which has a history as a Quake mod, is a throwback to the 90s, as fast as Quake, as slick as Unreal Tournament, and as blissfully unencumbered by narrative as any skill-based shooter.īut if that was all Nexuiz was about, who would need it now that we can play Quake in a web browser? Fortunately, Nexuiz - prounounced “Nexwheeze” in my mind - has something else up its sleeve.Īfter the jump, the dice are as loaded as the guns But no such thing happens in Nexuiz, a game that recalls a time before reload buttons. I know this because I keep hitting the reload button after firing my gun. It’s been a long time since I’ve played a game like Nexuiz.

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