Shiny, bloody and blaring boomer shooter Prodeus is getting an enlargement. Introduced at this 12 months’s Realms Deep occasion, Prodeus: Elder Veil provides some new wrinkles to the bottom recreation’s bombastic gameplay, by which I imply a grappling hook and a spear. All shooters want a grappling hook and a spear.
I am not totally certain what the narrative of the enlargement is, however I am additionally 100% satisfied that it isn’t enormously related. The trailer put collectively for Realms Deep options some form of disembodied Galadriel kind murmuring a load of disquieting issues a couple of want for blood permeating your rotting flesh, which might be precisely the form of drawback you possibly can kind out by killing like a billion guys in some type of astral airplane.
It seems enjoyable as heck, which is not any shock given what a joyous time I had taking part in base Prodeus. The addition of the grappling hook seems prefer it mixes up the homicide fairly properly, supplying you with new methods to spring throughout ranges and get in enemies’ faces. You is perhaps put in thoughts of the grappling hook that id put in Doom Everlasting, however it principally jogs my memory of my halcyon youth spent grappling throughout ranges in Quake 2 CTF matches.
All of it seems fairly a bit brighter and airier than the Prodeus you are already conversant in, too. The place the bottom recreation principally confined you to lots of darkish, metal and glass analysis amenities and underground labs, Elder Veil seems prefer it’s despatched you to rage in opposition to heaven. All of it seems such as you’re knocking on the abode of god with a shotgun underneath your arm. It is reminiscent—as PCG’s Ted Litchfield famous—of the baroque and disquieting celestial aesthetic within the Bayonetta video games.
There isn’t any launch date on this one but, only a acquainted “coming quickly” caught on the tip of the teaser, however hopefully we’ll see it within the close to future. Nonetheless, it isn’t the one attention-grabbing factor to return out of Realms Deep. We have additionally laid eyes on the upcoming Bioshock-alike, Twisted Tower, and a shadow drop of old-fashioned FPS Cultic’s newest degree. It is an actual feast for the senses.