![]() ![]() I unzipped Xonotic, that I'd downloaded a week or so ago and gave it a short run. ![]() maybe I could tweak settings and make it nicer, but since there's apparently NO community for this at all I don't see myself spending much time on it. but the servers were completely empty, and even after playing for an hour +, no one joined in. Just don’t expect to stay for long.So I already had this in my Steam library so a couple friends and myself tried it for the first time in a long while last night. If you are looking to take a trip back to the glory days of Quake mods, Nexuiz is what you are looking for. It’s hard to forget that even after the numerous PC updates, you’re playing a nearly seven year-old game, and after a few hours, it feels that way. The gameplay is solid, and can keep you and some friends entertained for a few hours, but ultimately, there’s not much left to it after you’ve seen all of the Mutators. Nexuiz is good for a visit back to the days of the arena shooter and at 800 MS Points, it’s a fun diversion from today’s XP-grinding shooters. Explosions are hardly audible and the gunfire from the alien weapons has no significance whatsoever. The generic electronic beats certainly best a silent menu, but do nothing to enhance the experience while you’re trying not to become hamburger. It’s not “retro” in a good way.Īlong with the environments, the rest of the presentation is easily forgettable. They either fall under bland outdoor environments set in overgrown ruins or generic, Halo-esque alien structures. However, the environments are about as fresh as Unreal Tournament 2003. They make for a great way to traverse the stage and can either make you a wide open target or set you up for some fantastical aerial kills. Each is outfitted with various spring and launch platforms that will bounce you to higher levels or shoot you across the map. They are always small enough that you will always be able to find the action but never too small where it would create complete chaos. The map layouts work well for four-on-four arena matches. Having so many unexpected variables popping in to the game never becomes an annoyance but rather makes each match feel different from the last. There are over 100 different mutators that seem to randomly drop as players activate them. These can be anything from wackier effects like having low gravity across the map or equipping everyone with jetpacks to more strategic modifiers like freezing the flag in a block of ice or leaving a weapon locker at your spawn point. Once a player picks up the Dynamic Mutator item on the map, three random mutators will be available to activate. Some of them are as simple as a bonus to armor or damage, but the best ones really throw a monkeywrench into the action. The mutators can affect the player alone, the player’s team, the opposing team, or everyone in the match. These act like instant mods which are activated by players and disappear after a short time. There is definitely a decent variety of weapons and fun ways to kill the opposing team, but the entire experience can get tiresome in the long run, especially with only two gameplay modes.īut Nexuiz does mix up the gameplay with power-ups called Dynamic Mutators. Other weapons bounce energy blasts, or grenades off walls and around cover, detonate on impact or unleash a spread of gunfire in one shot. We particularly enjoyed using the rocket launcher, which has the ability to detonate a rocket in mid-air, and exploding projectiles near enemies who were hiding behind cover. Effectively using a combination of primary and secondary firing options can give the opposing team some trouble. This ability to instantly have access to the secondary fire makes each gun a bit more versatile than you might initially expect. For example, the standard shotgun shoots the usual spread shot with a press of the right trigger and secondary shoots a single slug by pulling the left trigger. Most weapons feature primary and secondary firing modes with some having short and long range options or bouncing projectiles. Weapons are spread out in specified locations making the name of the game memorizing the locations of the best power-ups and weapons, getting to them immediately and delivering rockets to people’s faces. Matches are four-on-four team deathmatch or capture the flag where each team starts off on symmetrical arena maps. Originally released for the PC in 2005 (and last updated in 2009), the remade Quake mod delivers everything you would expect in terms of gameplay in this Xbox Live Arcade re-polish. Nexuiz is an arena shooter through and through. There were no fancy class load-outs, weapon attachments, or perks, just your knowledge of the arena, weapon spawns and a whole lot of circle strafing. ![]() Multiplayer first-person shooters were a different kind of beast back in the days of Quake and Unreal Tournament. ![]()
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