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#Kevin prodeus series

It’s the perfect introduction to this incredible gun too, and I dare you to try that section out and not end up with a huge smile on your face. It’s so over the top, and almost needlessly extreme but it just looks and feels so amazing to do. The very next section puts you inside the tight confines of a train carriage, it loads you up to the eyeballs with minigun food and then, as the doors slide open to the next carriage, you’re offered up a straight line of fish-in-a-barrel targets to evaporate.

It’s a wonderfully gory sight, like something out of an early Peter Jackson movie, but it doesn’t end there. Erupting into bright red blooms of blood as huge, chunky splatters of gore arc up and out and over the room, like fleshy fireworks that cover the walls and floors with a glossy red sheen.

#Kevin prodeus full

Then suddenly, once the barrel reaches full speed, hot lead begins to spew forth as the weapon emits a booming roar that sounds kind of like the noise I’d imagine a dragon to make if it got kicked square in the nuts.Īnd then those zombies? Well, they just kind of vanish.

With a squeeze the trigger the barrel of the gun starts spinning, leaving you with a couple of seconds of panic as nothing at all happens except for a whirr that rises in pitch. As this huge gun appears in your hands a small platform begins rising up at one end of the room, unleashing a horde of zombies that march towards you in a tight bunch. It happens early on in the game, during the ‘Research’ level, after you’ve liberated the weapon from the cold dead hands of the first Heavy Minigun Zombie you meet. The POWER! You’re not trapped in there with demons, they’re trapped in there with you, etc, etc!Īnd don’t get me wrong, there are countless moments in Prodeus that make you feel powerful, but there’s one moment in Prodeus that sticks in my mind over all others and that’s the first time you get to lay your hands on the Minigun. Prodeus wears its DOOM inspirations on its sleeve, it’s not ashamed to be mimicking one of the greats and indeed, its developers seem to be totally attuned as to what exactly it was that made the old-school DOOM games so special. It delivered such stupidly incredible carnage, it was overexaggerated, amped-up annihilation and up until recently, it felt like one of the most powerful video game guns I’d ever fired. The best bit though was the way that any hellspawn unlucky enough to be stood right in front of the barrel would just burst into gibs as soon as you pulled the trigger. I can still hear the incredible ‘BOOM’ it made as it fired, and that super satisfying trio of clicks that it made as new shells were loaded into it.

#Kevin prodeus series

That series has some of the most memorable weapons to have featured in a video game and they’re a joy to use, but DOOM 2’s Super Shotgun felt especially amazing. Ripping and tearing my way through the original DOOM games was easily some of the best gaming experiences of my youth. If you fancy catching up on some of the older editions of What We've Been Playing, This time: Doomlikes, classic raids, and Kevin Costner. Hello! Welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little bit about some of the games we've found ourselves playing over the last few days.