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Ion Fury: The Duke Nukem 3D Engine Powers A Brilliant New Game!

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DF Retro x Modern? 3D Realms is back with a BRAND NEW first-person shooter based on the classic Duke Nukem 3D Build engine. Enhanced, upgraded, and with a modern gameplay design, does the fusion of retro and modern work? John Linneman says yes, delivering this detailed analysis.

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38 comments

@bnsyphotography2104 July 7, 2024 - 5:55 am
Only heard of this game recently, got it on steam, and it brought back that repetitive “I’ve got to finish this game” feel I remember getting as a kid in the early 2000s. The graphics, the gameplay. You keep dying, working out strategies. Just feels classic. And the exploration is phenomenal. Reminds me a bit of Star Trek elite force, or kiss psycho circus game.
@AintPopular July 7, 2024 - 5:55 am
Love how levels makes sense rather than being a doom clone 'get red key from a contraption and head towards the door back where you started'. There is a sense of exploration in this
@UpIrons777 July 7, 2024 - 5:55 am
Probably the very best first-person game I have ever played. I really like it.
@trzy July 7, 2024 - 5:55 am
Ion Fury is indeed a great game, well worth the purchase, and John makes a really great point about how the free-roaming gameplay creates a bond between the player and the game that is lacking in more beautiful modern games. However, Ion Fury is pretty frustratingly flawed in a number of ways: 1) the enemies are incredibly boring and repetitive. So much effort was clearly put into the level design and environmental artwork it sort of boggles the mind that the enemies were seemingly relegated to an afterthought. None of them are memorable except for the spider-legged heads (and only then because they are incredibly annoying). 2) The weapons are boring. Only the dual machineguns are any fun. 3) Some of the level layouts are frustratingly confusing in a way that I don't remember older Build games being.
@xleaselife July 7, 2024 - 5:55 am
Anybody know what that music is from the first few minutes?
@roguespartan2854 July 7, 2024 - 5:55 am
I'm not going to lie, when I first saw this, I legit thought it was a port of a retro game from 2 decades ago.
@mrthms3247 July 7, 2024 - 5:55 am
Io
@michaelschneider1365 July 7, 2024 - 5:55 am
imagine if this and quake got a doom eternal graphics.
@Jun123 July 7, 2024 - 5:55 am
"Refreshment"
@Sam3231 July 7, 2024 - 5:55 am
14:14 OMG I never found this switch and this part took me FOREVER. I eventually beat it by finding a secret route into the rest of the office.
@DeadPixel1105 July 7, 2024 - 5:55 am
15:58 Not only does this make you feel disconnected from the maps, but it also makes the maps completely forgettable. There is a reason why 30 years later, I can still remember the layout and names of maps in retro FPS games; but after playing through a typical COD or Battlefield single-player campaign, all of the levels blend together in my mind. Absolutely nothing is memorable or sticks out. And within days of completing the game, the levels and plot details are already fading from my memory.
@mrthms3247 July 7, 2024 - 5:55 am
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@mrthms3247 July 7, 2024 - 5:55 am
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@mrthms3247 July 7, 2024 - 5:55 am
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@jshmlmprt July 7, 2024 - 5:55 am
Purchased and found this thanks to this video. Love the style. Appreciate it, John!
@nicwilson89 July 7, 2024 - 5:55 am
10:56 'Who wants some wang?' is a reference to Shadow Warrior. It's one of his lines :)
@360Fov July 7, 2024 - 5:55 am
Voxel-driven FPS games with fully destructible environments, and craftable armor, weapons and vehicles plus building and landscape construction and AI-powered wildlife and simulated flora and fauna with realtime day/night cycle and complex 12-variant weather cycles which affect wildlife behaviour and temperature affects how materials interact (you slip more when it's frosty and deer can't run on icy floors for example).
@zbyniurumek3235 July 7, 2024 - 5:55 am
Better than Cyberpunk. :)
@four-en-tee July 7, 2024 - 5:55 am
Reject Unity, Embrace the Build Engine.
@MrTjp420 July 7, 2024 - 5:55 am
i would rather play a game, like ion fury, compared to a game like a full out 3D game, because it feels more like a game and not a movie!
if GTV 5 was built of the same engine as the ion Fury, i believe it would make even GTA even more enjoyable!
@0000maxx0000 July 7, 2024 - 5:55 am
after so many years I still think these graphics look gorgeous. This game is one of the best fps I ever played, when I saw the 90 Mb download I couldn't believe it.
Hope 3D Realms has not finished with this engine.
@agbrenv July 7, 2024 - 5:55 am
Medivo is one of the best tracks from Jazz Jackrabbit
@Jakster840 July 7, 2024 - 5:55 am
Doom Eternal and Ion Fury are my two favorite shooters of 2020. Both easily make it in my top 10.
@jl.7739 July 7, 2024 - 5:55 am
18:52 ah the Washington 4 skins. My favorite team
@TheSpoartsNetwork July 7, 2024 - 5:55 am
excellent review
@nomemio6038 July 7, 2024 - 5:55 am
good game... i ask and already received a refund by steam in reason of the frame rate stuttering, and the developpers admit the issue. Beta testing today is a dream from the past... I expect 60 stable fps from a game based on a 90 age engine. i don' t think i am expecting too much.
@zachgoodrich6100 July 7, 2024 - 5:55 am
I downloaded this game on my Nintendo Switch Tuesday night and beat it late of Friday night (yesterday from typing this comment) and it was very fun! The Sunday prior to the week I beat Project Warlock for my Switch also which was a very fun game also! Both that and this bring back my childhood memories of how games of the time were awesome and the genre of First Person Shooters were enjoyable during it's time as a spring chicken!
@kproer July 7, 2024 - 5:55 am
Fasttracker II is awesome. Been using it the past 20+ years and i still use it to this day.
@eugkra33 July 7, 2024 - 5:55 am
Here's an idea. Find a high end PC from 1999 and run it on this. See how well it works.
@shonuff8880 July 7, 2024 - 5:55 am
I'm playing it on Xbox One X.
I love the graphics, I love the shooting, which is very satisfying, I love the complexity of the nuanced colors in the graphics, which gives the object a particular texture from a distance and I love the exploration.
Good good game.
@xZodraKx July 7, 2024 - 5:55 am
i need gore like brutal doom the gameplay is so satisfying! why this new retro dont have that? to hard to do it?
@Gnarrkhaz July 7, 2024 - 5:55 am
I just finished Ion Fury for the first time, and it turned out to be one of the best shooters i've ever played. Turns out old school really is just better.
@nathaniliescu4597 July 7, 2024 - 5:55 am
Coming out on consoles and Nintendo switch baby, yeah !!!
@roberte2945 July 7, 2024 - 5:55 am
Who's playing? I saw better gameplay in Doom from Polygon.
@nuclearfish010 July 7, 2024 - 5:55 am
It's not called the Duke nukem 3d engine. It's just the build engine.
@JolanXBL July 7, 2024 - 5:55 am
9:56 Dunno how mirrors are done in Ion, but in Duke you had to create an empty room behind the mirrored space that was as big or bigger than the area it's reflecting. Sounds like Build just renders a mirrored copy of the room you're in.
@matiastau8495 July 7, 2024 - 5:55 am
added to my wishlist
@SayakMajumder July 7, 2024 - 5:55 am
6:15 That minigun model looks so cool.
The shotgun/grenade launcher hybrid is also very well made.

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