A thousand cheers for the old-school FPS revival! Led by New Blood Interactive and 3D Realms (yes, the 3D Realms) there have been a slew of wonderful, ultra-fast 2.5D shooters over the past five years that have so successfully captured the joie de vivre of the mid-’90s while creeping in modern ideas like physics, dynamic lighting, and how mouse controls work .
while there is so many to recommend, like Gloomwood, in the midst of evil, cultand ion ragewe choose the figurehead for the whole movement, dusk.
Like most, this manic shooter relies on that sinkingto-Duke Nukem Axis, the best kind of nostalgia where it plays like us notice these games feel rather than how they really were. That means a lot of clunkiness is removed, physics makes the world more tangible, and art is much more involved than was ever possible three decades ago.
But it’s more than nostalgia: dusk is an exceptionally good shooter in its own right, and one that gets better and better the more you play. The level design starts out great but leads to majestic locations, along with an excellent variety of enemies, weapons, and even deadly soap.
