Followers of Ion Fury’s retro-inspired shooter gameplay can stay up for a brand new growth known as Aftershock hitting the sport this summer season. The growth was briefly teased final yr and appears to offer followers much more of the nostalgic gameplay they love whereas turning up the amount even greater on an already loud journey.
Aftershock sees heroine Shelly “Bombshell” Harrison return in full drive. Sadly for Shelly, her nemesis Heskel is again too. Aftershock introduces brand-new zones for Shelly to explode in pursuit of her foe in addition to a set of harmful new enemies. Fortunately, Shelly has her Loverboy revolver in addition to an arsenal of recent weaponry. When she’s not mowing down every part in sight on foot, she’ll pace issues up with new car fight sections.
The growth additionally provides an Organize mode. This permits gamers to combine up the unique marketing campaign by further components resembling new enemies, weapons, and extra. Meaning anybody seeking to replay Ion Fury can now achieve this below recent situations as an alternative of merely replaying the prevailing narrative. In the event you’re itching to dive again into the sport, Ion Fury: Aftershock will probably be accessible on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Swap, and PC. There is no phrase on value but.
Ion Fury launched in August 2019 for PC and got here to consoles final August. The sport acts as a throwback to the 90s period of first-person shooters. It’s such a throwback that the sport was made utilizing the identical Construct Engine that spawned Duke Nukem and the unique Shadow Warrior video games.
Recreation Informer scored the sport a 9 out of 10 with former editor Javy Gwaltney saying in his assessment “Ion Fury is every part that I’ve wished from a modernized tackle the arcadey shooters of the 90s. The pitch-perfect motion, the enemy selection, artistic weaponry, and incredible degree design all add as much as an outstanding shooter marketing campaign. In a sea of retro shooters seeking to channel the glory of the style’s early days, Ion Fury emerges because the title that pushes these thrills into the current in a fascinating approach, deftly capturing their timelessness.”
Regardless of its reward, Ion Fury generated controversy after transphobic statements by some members of the sport’s improvement crew, Voidpoint, surfaced on-line. It was additionally found that Ion Fury featured in-game homophobic jokes. (Voidpoint has since apologized and eliminated the offending content material from the sport).
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*Editor’s Notice: it was beforehand written that Ion Fury: Aftermath prices $24.99. That’s not truly the case, and we apologize for the error.
