The way it feeds into the graphics and combat is a thing of beauty and the sound effects are mixed really well for a 3d audio setup while using headphones. Some levels are non-stop pulse-pounding beats while others are more (sometimes too) subdued. From the pistol becoming a heavy three-shot burst when aimed down sites to the shotgun becoming a huge fiery blast when charged up or the rocket launcher exploding mid-shot whenever you want, there are always different ways to use each gun.Īccompanying you throughout each frenetic level is an excellent soundtrack. Outside of the shotgun, you will run out of most ammo often, which forces you to switch up tactics on the fly. Your arsenal consists of a lot of guns that cover multiple ammo types. You move quickly, have damned near perfect control in the air, and the acceleration on a controller felt perfectly dialed in. It feels perfect, and after replaying most of the game with a controller it felt great that way too.
PRODEUS XBOX PC
As it was only in preview on PC that is where I’ve spent the majority of my time while using a mouse and keyboard. SHOOTA BOOMAĪll of these looks wouldn’t mean much if the game didn’t play well, and boy does it. Online competitive multiplayer is here as well, and while it feels great to play, I never found myself drawn to it personally. From Peach’s castle to golf courses and more the amount of content built up over the past couple of years has been incredible to see. There is a powerful and comprehensive suite of tools on offer to let you build damned good-looking levels and then share them through the in-game browser.
This feels like a celebration of the “boomer shooter” in many ways and that feeds into the community-driven side of things, too.Īfter completing the main campaign, which can be done solo or with up to 4 friends in co-op, you can hit the community level section. A lot of the designs have obvious inspiration, especially from DOOM, as there are imps, cacodemons, and flying exploding skull types. It is relentless even on normal difficulty and knowing who you’re fighting and where they are is key. Enemy designs are great and give off easy-to-read silhouettes which is key because of the pace of the game.
PRODEUS XBOX FULL
The levels are a mixture of Quake and DOOM with a lot of hell-inspired landscapes being chock full of industrial complexes. You do have the option of turning off the filter and seeing the base models, and while things still look good it’s nowhere near as cool as the default setup. This setup allows the lighting to effect everything and again it just looks incredible. These are 3d models with a pixel filter placed on top of them that also limits their framerate, and it looks gloriously good. Enemies explode as you pummel them into a bright pixelated mess of carnage and gore. You begin with just your fists with the left trigger and right trigger controlling each hand. The story feels more like an excuse to go to increasingly more bizarre and demonic-looking levels that use a mix of modern graphics overlayed with filters and self-imposed framerate limits that mimic the early days of shooters. BOOMA SHOOTAĬoming from a two-man team, Prodeus is all about the look and feel. I haven’t gotten to spend much time with the full release, but I think it’s safe to say that either alone or with friends this game kicks some serious ass. It is releasing day one into Xbox Game Pass on console and PC after years in early access and it is freaking cool. It is a high-octane, non-stop shooter featuring tons of guns, lots of gore, and an incredible aesthetic. Prodeus feels like a game of that era, but it looks far sharper than any of those titles ever could.Prodeus describes itself as pure retro FPS chaos and I couldn’t put it better myself. Plenty of love letters to the classic Doom and Quake lift their art style and make a game that both looks and feels like it could’ve come from that time.
In our Prodeus preview, Miguel wrote, “Prodeus is a promising FPS that is packed full of love and respect for the shooters of yore. The soundtrack has been composed by Andrew Hulshult, who has also worked on DOOM Eternal: The Ancient Gods, Dusk, and Amid Evil. Prodeus mashes up classic visuals with current 3D tech mixing lo-tech visuals and detailed particle effects. This feature is not going to be available on the console versions. PC players will have access to a level editor to create more maps and share them. There will be other modes as well as well as the ability to come up with different rules. In PvP, the modes include Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, and Capture The Flag. The campaign can be played co-operatively with up to four players, while PvP multiplayer will allow 16 players to go up against each other. Prodeus has both a campaign and multiplaye incorporated in it.
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