Capcom Beat 'Em Up Bundle (NSW)
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| Keep on beating. |
While Capcom is best known for Resident Evil and Monster Hunter in recent memory, back in the early 90's, they were responsible for many great hits in the beat 'em up genre. The Capcom Beat 'Em Up Bundle brings together seven of the developer's games into one package. Featuring classics like Final Fight, Battle Circuit, Warriors of Fate, Knights of the Round, Armored Warriors, The King of Dragons, and Captain Commando-- there's plenty of games here to satisfy fans of the beat 'em up genre. I was interested in the collection for Battle Circuit and Armored Warriors alone as they looked like super fun games to play, which they were. Some like Knights of the Round and Captain Commando were great as well, though I didn't like Warriors of Fate and original Final Fight all that much.
The Bundle includes some quality-of-life additions such as save-states, difficulty alterations, and infinite continues. It also includes an art gallery where you can check out various concept art from all of the games. All in all, I had a good amount of fun playing the Capcom Beat 'Em Up Bundle as I grew to appreciate Capcom's older works and it's a lot more fun playing with friends as it includes both local co-op and online modes.
Duke Nukem 3D: 25th Anniversary World Tour (PS5)
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| Hail to the king. |
Duke Nukem 3D is an old-school first-person shooter from 3D Realms that released back in 1996 when the genre was booming with classics like Doom and Quake. You play as Duke Nukem, a lovable jock who's out to save the world from an alien invasion. Loaded up with a bunch of guns and lots of funny one-liners, he'll travel between space and earth to kick alien ass. The levels were fun to blast through with plenty of unique weapons to use and great amount of aliens to mow down. They also packed plenty of cool backgrounds and my favorites were easily the urban ones like "Hollywood Holocasut", "Hotel Hell", "Duke-Burger", and "Shop-N-Bag" to name just a few.
The 20th Anniversary World Tour editions adds a new episode dubbed "Alien World Order" where Duke travels the world to London, Moscow, and Paris to shoot up more aliens. It's harder than the standard game given you're fighting hordes of regular and boss enemies at the same time, so it's a decent challenge.
Some gripes I had were that enemies tend to spawn outta nowhere and cheap shot you. Also, levels can become aimless mazes if you're not focused (which is the norm for old-school shooters) and some switch puzzles offer no hints, so you're just flipping them till something works. Lastly, with the exception of the excavator, the weapons don't look as cool as Doom or Quake. I still enjoyed Duke Nukem 3D despite some of its issues and it was so fun for me that I'd say it's one of my favorite shooters of the 90's.
Doom II (PS5)
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| It's hell on Earth. |
Doom II is the sequel to 1993's seminal shooter, Doom. Released a year later, it has you fighting demons, this time on Earth. It's a first-person shooter where you're a lonely space marine and must shoot up a variety of evil demons. New in Doom II is the double-barrel shotgun that was fun and made shooting large groups of enemies a breeze at the cost of consuming two shells.
Levels were maze-like and weren't as fun as Doom. Often I would wander around for like 20 mins till I found a vague wall that revealed a switch, which pissed me off. That said, I did enjoy some of the later ones when you're fighting the demons in hell. Some enemies like the hell elemental and archvile were annoying to beat, though. The presentation is pretty much the same in terms of visuals and music, so it was great. While it's more of the same, Doom II was a good game though not as special as its predecessor.
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