Unlike Unreal Tournament, which has always featured tons of modes on some of the most beautiful sci-fi maps ever created, Nexuiz features two team-based modes, Team Deathmatch and Capture the Flag, that can be played on nine small maps to fit the 4 vs.
The “Victorian influenced art style that is simultaneously futuristic and sophisticated” is bland, most weapons are uninspiring attempts to copy guns from UT and Quake with secondary fire options that barely differ from the primary, and worst of all, the game maxes out at eight (six until the supposed patch) players per game and still has lag issues. The overall look of the game isn’t even close to the visually stunning Crysis games. Sadly, Nexuiz is probably the worst looking game to ever be sold using Crytek’s engine. The problem is that with the Mario Kart-style random mutator slot system and so many different possibilities, it’s hard to know what you or your opponent is going to get, which isn’t exactly what you want when playing a smaller and more competitive 3-on-3 killfest.īesides the Mutators gimmick, Nexuiz’s other big selling point is the fact that it’s “achieved” using Crytek’s CryEngine 3, the same engine used to power Crysis 2. So I can applaud developer Illfonic’s idea of using Mutator events as secondary power-up weapons to completely change gameplay. Personally, I’m a huge fan of Mutators and the most fun I’ve ever had playing a game was turning on Low Gravity and the ability to slow down time for three seconds after each kill like the Matrix in UT3. And some are just plain annoying, like swapping bodies with other players, switching to inverted controls, and having the sound completely muted – which isn’t all that bad since the game’s repetitive loop of electronic noise it calls a soundtrack is just as annoying. Other Mutators are just silly, like turning gun sounds into fart noises or making a whale appear in the sky. Certain Mutators really do add new strategic events to the gameplay, like jetpacks that can allow players to quickly get to higher parts of the map and damage buffs that turn weaker weapons into weapons of mass destruction. Mutator effects fall into three different categories: Individual, Team, and Global. 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.
#NEXUIZ FOR XBOX 360 PC#
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.
#NEXUIZ FOR XBOX 360 MOD#
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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