Unleash your inner map designer with Prodeus’s powerful but easy-to-use level editor, and keep the visceral combat fresh with a built-in browser filled with community-created maps. Team up and go head-to-head in a variety of multiplayer modes. Take on the campaign in 4-player co-op, and dive into the fray in 16-player Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, CTF, and more-then take things to the next level by creating and sharing custom game modes.īurst blood vessels listening to a supercharged metal soundtrack by retro FPS composer Andrew Hulshult that dynamically changes gears to accompany your actions. GOG Galaxy and a ProNet account are required in order to get access to community content, multiplayer, leaderboards, and cross platform saves - a ProNet account will be created automatically once you start the game and choose 'Log in to ProNet with GOG Galaxy'.Developed by Bounding Box Software and published by Humble Games, Prodeus is the result of a successful Kickstarter project and the hard work of a team of industry vets with a deep passion for old-school gaming. Here’s an FPS with no regenerating health, keycards, and tons of secrets to find among the game’s cold, steel walls. Fast movement is encouraged to avoid all manners of danger, from environmental hazards to attacks from the motley crew of foes set upon you. Plot-wise, you’re a lone corrupted agent of Prodeus, the creator of the game’s world, and you must destroy it.Īt your disposal are the base campaign’s 13 weighty weapons, which you must switch between fluidly to ensure success. Not much else is known aside from flavor text for each level and little lore bits found throughout the game’s nearly 30 levels. And honestly, that’s enough for a game of this caliber – all you need is a simple motivation to unchain your lizard brain to exact righteous fury on your enemies and enjoy this game to its fullest. Taking cues from the likes of the recent iterations of DOOM and Wolfenstein, Prodeus is almost comically visceral. Like, goddamn, there’s a ton of blood here. Pretty much any of your weapons – yes, even your bare fists – have the capacity to gnash up the alien-demon things you’re fighting into pie filling. Using the all-powerful minigun or a grenade-based weapon ensures the map’s carpet will match the drapes, complete with blood dripping from the ceiling if it’s a confined enough space. Speaking of space, there is a futuristic sci-fi aesthetic to it all. You are a man in a space suit/power armor-like getup, as are the humanoid enemies – likely former world inhabitants or workers who are now zombified or possessed and super pissed. Prodeus is being developed by Michael Voeller and Jason Mojica of Bounding Box Software who have a combined 25 years FPS development experience, along with talented freelance artists and designers.The levels are sleek with miles and miles of metal lining the walls and ground, natural formations jutting out from landscapes that remind you that you’re an unwelcome visitor. Tons of difficulty and game modes with online high score support.Dynamic heavy metal soundtrack from Andrew Hulshult.Infinite blood and a satisfyingly gory dismemberment system.Over the top visual effects (Explosions! Blood! Gore! Oh My!).An aesthetic mix of high-quality 3D art and retro rendering techniques.This is the Boomer Shooter you’ve been waiting for. The game features a hand-crafted campaign from industry FPS veterans, a fully-integrated level editor, and a built-in community map browser for instantaneous action with nearly limitless levels to play. It reaches the quality you expect from a AAA experience while adhering to some of the aesthetic technical limits of older hardware. Prodeus is a first-person shooter of old, re-imagined using modern rendering techniques.
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