Obviously this is fucking used teabags in the eye sockets mental because at that point it would be approximately ten septillion times easier just to use 3D models. You know how the 2D sprites in Doom always looked like they were turning to face you because there wasn’t a different sprite for every angle you could view them from? Well, in Prodeus, there IS a different sprite for every angle, as well as every vertical angle, for every single animation frame of every single entity. How much work, Yahtzee? Well, besides the modern lighting and texturing and inevitable exaggerated dripping-off-the-ceiling gore effects, Prodeus is doing its damnedest to make 2D spritework look like 3D graphics. In fact I wonder if it was originally going to be some kind of HD Doom mod, the sort of thing those eye-twitchy toothbrush chewers in the Doom modding community consistently put worrying amounts of effort into to stave off having to play another fucking game one of these days, but after the creators had some kind of sanity fart they realised it would be a lot nicer to actually be paid for all that fucking work, and here we are.
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Zombie man, fireball imp, evil Christmas decoration, annoying flying skull prick, evil Christmas decoration that spits out annoying flying skull pricks… View Full Transcript Prodeus is a Doom clone, and while “Doom clone” is largely an outdated term for FPS from before the genre was fully codified, I can think of no more adequate description for Prodeus, not while it’s a 2.5D first person shooter about a burly yet remarkably lightfooted soldier battling demons from hell on a space station. Or indeed Probus, who was a Roman emperor in the 3rd century AD who by the sounds of it was very much in favour of public transport.
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Or Parodius, which was a series of cutesy arcade shoot ’em ups. Which brings me to today’s subject, Prodeus, not to be confused with Proteus, which was a walking sim from 2013. Maybe we could broadcast a popular children’s cartoon in which every episode’s plot is resolved by a character setting themselves on fire, then wait twenty years and buy a controlling interest in every major burn ointment manufacturer… or perhaps alternatively just hack out another fucking Doom clone. The ongoing glut of indie retro boomer shooters has proved the absolute mother fuck out of the 20 year nostalgia wave theory, so now I’m just trying to think of a way to exploit it. We have a merch store as well! Visit the store for brand new ZP merch. Want to watch Zero Punctuation ad-free? Sign-up for The Escapist + today and support your favorite content creators!
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This week in Zero Punctuation, Yahtzee reviews Prodeus.įor more major games Yahtz has reviewed lately, check out Return to Monkey Island, Splatoon 3 and Serial Cleaners, Soul Hackers 2, The Mortuary Assistant, Saints Row, Stray, and Elden Ring.
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