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Mar1217 said:

Never been too much into the shooter genre since my X360 days but the style of it is quite strange. Like a mix of 3D and sprites ? Or moreso stop-motion-esque, false 3D movement ? Can't truly pick out the right words for it 😅

It's intentionally designed to mimic the look of shooters in the mid to late 1990s, mixing modern and retro technology. :) 

There's a whole subgenre called Boomer Shooters that do this, attempting to emulate the FPS games of old.

I refuse to call them Boomer Shooters lol I'll forever call them Arena Shooters. It is a pretty big genre these days though. Arena Shooters definitely don't hold up today to modern shooters, so it's great that developers have chosen to perfect the formulas of old rather than forcing to modernize them ala Doom 2016 and Doom Eternal. If there was any 1 arena shooter franchise that would make it in today's gaming world, it would be Doom. 

There's several other notable Arena Shooters on Switch like Dusk, Warhammer 40K: Boltgun, Ion Fury (and its upcoming sequel Phantom Fury), and the Quake remasters. 

Nightdive Studios in particular has been remastering a lot of these old games too. They're currently working on a remaster of Star Wars Dark Forces that will be available on Switch at launch. Really looking forward to that one! Despite being a "Doom clone" that game actually invented the concept of looking up and down in your FPS games  

Last edited by G2ThaUNiT - on 03 October 2023