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Brutal John, Duke Nukem Forever in Unity

  Brutal John, The Most Brutal Ever With the awesome comeback of the boomer shooter FPS genre into the scene, There are many studios entering the hall with big dreams and efforts, and today's game is a prime example. With the market starting to get the fun out of the fast paced games, many new indie studios are jumping into the scene for this genre, and many more are getting there quickly and efficiently thanks to the commercial game engine market. With Unreal Engine, Unity and the newest Godot Engine, most of indie games were made possible. Brutal John, is a boomer shooter FPS developed and published by OldSchool Law Interactive , using the Unity engine to its most to deliver a good old boomer shooter experience that bring back the nostalgia of Duke Nukem Forever , the 2001 experience that we wanted to play. with a personal art style that defines the game, good gameplay and a lively vivid world. Brutal John is set in a parallel universe, where a cyborg invaded earth for mining c...
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MEATGRINDER indie review!

 


MEATGRINDER is an awesome game, that gives you chills

    Have ever had a feeling for destruction and chaos?, I believe that everyone at least had a an angry moment with someone in his life. If i describe you, this one is for you my friend. MEATGRINDER is a fast octane dopamine releasing FPS that combines subway surfers with the GZDOOM. You jump on speeding cars trucks, trains and even planes. with a good selection of weapons that aids the game artistic style. There is no cutscenes or story, just pure carnage throughout the stages with some bossfights with strong cars as HAMMER for example in the early stages.

a screenshot from the game showing destruction

From the screenshots, you can easily say that the devs were really inspired by the classic DOOM, same pixelated textures, low poly enemies and so on. This pixelated looks aren't a flaw, its the opposite. This low poly look gives the game its character, as it gives the game the artistic feel with the carnage that is happening on the screen. The vehicles are well modeled and looks good. One thing I would complement is the feel of the speed. While jumping you feel like trucks is just going 100 miles per hour while you jump and dash though them. The environment is lite, cause really not much to interact with, although in some stages, the environment introduce things like port cranes that drop containers on the road that gives you some harder time to jump and grapple. The gameplay is awesome, you have a heartbeat meter, if your heartbeat goes down you lose health and die, so the game encourages you to always jump, and move non stop. The movement is the key here, you have a 3-dash power and a grappling hook at your disposal to jump in between cars. Developers really made the movement somewhat challenging, to give you the fun of course.


However all of this, I had some raging moments with this game, the grapple hook is just janky, or had a bug of some sort. I use it at the rear end of a truck and it just flies me to the front of the car on the road which make me lose health. this was off-putting for some time, but I got te hang of it with time. The game is most likely built to keep you trying to kill those enemies while moving. Other than this the game is just pure fun. i can't describe how I felt when I hit an enemy mid air while using the grapple hook or when I kick an enemy before jumping in front of me. This game introduced the idea of how carnage without a story and cutscenes can produce a ton fun. The end result, I encourage everyone to play this game. 

System Requirements

OS: Windows 10 / Linux 64-bit.
CPU: any 4-core with 2+ GHz.
RAM: 2 GB RAM.
GPU: nVidia GTX 960.

The Verdict

MEATGRINDER is an awesome game, with a new concept and good artistic feel of speed. The is currently in development stage. there is a demo for free on steam so give it a try (only 200 mb). Support the developer by wishlisting the game on steam and following them on twitter.

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