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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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For Quake fans, HROT is getting in shape enough for the world

 

HROT is a great game inspired by Quake for the boomer shooter fans

HROT is a fast paced action FPS with the look and feel of old Quakes. Developed by Spytihnev, utilizing the GLScene library with a proprietary engine to give the players the feel of gameplay mashup of Chasm: The Rift and Quake. But this one is big, with gameplay and atmosphere like no other. HROT was in early access in 2019 and got to see the full release in May 2023 with a full playable 3 episodes like no other. Once I launched the game, I got that eerie feel when playing quake. This is an atmosphere like no other and I believe boomer shooters are making a big come back and HROT is a prime example of how.


HROT has a plot, but it is different. The game has no narration or cinematics but it relies on the atmosphere of the game to give you the story. Events take place in an alternate universe in Czechoslovakia. with a dark grim appearance alone you get that there is an evil lurking all over the place. It seems that there was an attack from another country into czechoslovakia. You as a protagonist go and venture through waves of these enemies as you go out from undergrounds to old metro stations, sewers, factories and so much more. The atmosphere is awesome and you will get everything going in the game. HROT has an awesome direction that always push you as a player. When you focus, you will actually get through each level without getting lost or anything else. Yet it implicates the game progress of using keys\ valves to get doors opening and using wall traps like DOOM classic, which was fun. The gameplay was good, fast and responsive. on normal difficulty at least weren't bullet sponges. It felt really satisfying killing enemies, especially with shotgun. I liked the little bits of the gameplay, as for example the shotgun, that had a pushback feature when shooting nearby enemies. The ammo was on the short side, but kicking using shift and the scythe was not a bad experience. Grenades was my main weapon, why you ask? because it goes boom once it touches the enemy. making it more of a safer option when out of ammo and fighting a grenade launcher so, make sure to have a nice keyboard and mouse for that.



The environment was well DONE in HROT. the environment is very responsive more than many other AAA games. you got things that move like trash bins when kicking them, the swing playground for example. toilets flush and you also could take a shower in game. check toilets cause you might enemies there "looking at you Duke Nukem 3D" and ammo and so much more. The game utilizes the vent tubes to get through different inaccessible rooms and get different keys and stuff to progress the game. As a game built on the boomer shooter classic games, it has a secret room in every mission, some was visually very apparent and others were very hard, but I don't thing you have to mash E on every wall to get it, cause there is always a visual clue.
The graphics were good and looked old school, yet modern somehow. Performance wise it was a silk smooth gameplay even for a weak pc as FX-6350 and GTX 960 had 70+ FPS average which was fine. 

The Bottom line

  HROT is an awesome experience, good atmosphere, little/no bugs and an eerie Chasm/Quake boomer shooter experience like no other. Check the game on steam here


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