But where other games used Mutators just as an added bonus setting that players could turn on and off before matches, Nexuiz allows players to be granted the ability to turn on random Mutators in the middle of gameplay after getting kills, grabbing flags, or just picking them up on the battlefield. The idea of Mutators isn’t new and has been used many times before: one shot kills, slow-motion, low gravity, big heads, etc. For those unfamiliar with what a “Mutator” is, quite simply, it’s any weird effect that can be turned on to alter and mutate gameplay. Nexuiz’s unique twist is how the developers have implemented hundreds of Mutators into the gameplay. Regardless, players will still be upset to find that they can’t even customize their characters and are stuck playing as a generic red or blue armored soldier with zero personality.
Since it’s a $10 multiplayer-only twitch shooter, players should just be happy that its backstory even has that much detail. Similar to the original Unreal Tournament, Nexuiz has an irrelevant story told in a quick one-minute intro that explains two warring factions (the Kavussari and the Forsellians) in a futuristic world are taking each other on in televised combat. Unfortunately, like with most things, with Nexuiz you get what you pay for.
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With Epic Games proving that console ports of arena shooters can still work with 2008’s Unreal Tournament III being ported from PC to Xbox 360 and PS3, I was hyped for Nexuiz’s comeback using the same engine that powered Crysis 2 (CryEngine 3) but with only a $10 price tag. So is Nexuiz enough to revive the genre and help get twitch fans by until the next Unreal or Quake, or is it not even worth the $10 price tag?Īs a huge fan of Unreal Tournament, Quake, and Tribes, I had surprisingly never heard of the original Nexuiz, an open-source and free-to-play twitch shooter released back in 2005 that ran off a modified version of the Quake engine.
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Being a huge fan of both Unreal Tournament and Quake, like many others I’ve been dying for a new fast-paced futuristic shooter ever since playing 2008’s Unreal Tournament III to death with friends on the Xbox 360 and PS3.Įnter Nexuiz, a downloadable remake of a popular fan-made free Quake mod and a throwback to a generation of hyper speed arena shooters using one of the most powerful and best looking graphics engines ever, CryEngine 3. With yearly installments to slower-paced modern day shooters, it’s a damn shame that the once dominant arena twitch shooter genre is now becoming extinct.
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