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Old-school Fast paced Arena Combat

griff92 | June 3, 2013 | See all griff92's reviews »

Nexiuz is an old-school fast arena combat game with similar styles to classic games such as Quake 3 Arena and Unreal Tournament. The game is powered by Crytek's CryENGINE 3 which gives the game a nice visual style, especially on the higher settings. There are 10 maps available by default, but you can download more from the Steam Workshop. If you want to make you're own maps, Nexuiz comes with its own map editor and a few tutorials if you're not sure how to use it. However, there are only 3 gameplay modes available which are Deathmath, Team Deathmatch and Capture the Flag.

The game features an excellent soundtrack and plenty of in-game mutators, however, if you want to make a custom bot match, you can't change the mutator set options or difficulty setting. If you want to change the difficulty setting or mutator set options, you'll have to start a quick bot match.

The biggest problem with Nexuiz is that the online community is more or less dead because you can't connect to the servers most likely due to THQ going bankrupt, which means that you'll have to play with bots. The AI for the bots (even on the higher difficult settings) aren't exactly smart. They are a challenge on the higher difficuly settings, but most of the time they end up running into walls, falling off ledges and blowing themselves up. This doesn't really ruin the game, but you may end up winning a lot of matches.

Overall, Nexuiz is a fun game with plenty of maps thanks to the Steam community along with outstanding visuals and an excellent soundtrack to boot. However, you'll be stuck with bots with average AI because the community is practically dead. Maybe this will change one day, who knows? However, you may want to consider buying Quake 3 Arena or any of the Unreal Tournament series or even download Nexuiz Classic.

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Arena style online shooter.

Bigshrimp | Jan. 30, 2013 | See all Bigshrimp's reviews »

I personally thought that this game needs more polish to contend with Quake 3 and Unreal Tournament games. I got it when it first came out and was really buggy and hard to get into. The mutators were very confusing and it was really hard to find your targets because of the motion blur and other aspects.

The weapons seemed quite boring as well, I would have a hard time figuring what they did and how they were best used. Also the matchmaking seemed severely unpolished and overall it game me a headache after playing it awhile. I really just wanted to play UT2004 or UT3 over this game. It may have been patched and be a better game now, but I am afraid to give it another try now. Who knows, I may get back to it someday, but I am may not. 1 thumb down. :(

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Fast paced action in stunning graphics!

jpbuntinx | Jan. 27, 2013 | See all jpbuntinx's reviews »

A friend of mine gifted me this in exchange for another game i had 2 copies of. Now i must say i honestly never liked online FPS games. I'm really bad at it. This game however, reminded me of the first Quake game. I loved the fast pace, weapon selection, level design, pumping beats,....It's all there. + It got a trophy called "RTFM" for actually reading the manual...what more can you ask for?

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Arena is back!

Stebsis | Jan. 26, 2013 | See all Stebsis's reviews »

Arena shooters, back in the day there was nothing better, the best form of multiplayer. Unreal Tounament and Quake were one of the most addictive games ever, and still are. After, and also before, Unreal Tournament 3 there seemed to be a biiiig cap in fast paces arena shooters, Halo and Gears of War were ok, but they were nothing like UT, they felt more traditional shooters than arena. If you don't know what Arena shooter is, it's basically what it says it is, an arena. People spawn around the arena and try to just blast each other with tons of guns. It's usually really fast paced and death comes quickly if you're not quick with your fingers, there's no use camping, in fact it's discouraged, the arena's are built like that.

Gladly, Nexuiz came. Nexuiz is throwback to those mindless shooters that almost everyone loved. It's fast paced, it's addictive, there're tons of guns to choose and action can get your heart jump out of your chest, especially when you're on a real killing spree, just trying to maintain it and trying to dodge enemy bullets, your forehead sweating and fingers twitching.

Unique thing in Nexuiz are the mutators, there's over 100 of them and they can change tide of the battle as quickly as the game plays. Usually it works like this: you find this mutator thing somewhere in the arena, you get it and you get to choose between 3, and they can affect different things, your firepower, everyone gets killed by one hit, jetpacks and all kinds of crazy stuff.

As for the graphics, CryEngine makes the game look just beautiful, everything looks so detailed, at least if you just have a chance to look around and not get blasted in the head by a rocket launcher.

Nexuiz isn't exceptionally deep, and UT3 and UT2004 definitely are better, but if you've already played them to death, Nexuiz definitely can be a real time waster in a good way, as long as you find people to play with, sometimes it can get a little quiet in the servers.

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Old-school fast paced FPS

rulzmaker | Dec. 11, 2012 | See all rulzmaker's reviews »

I loved the Nexuiz idea right from the start, giving the Unreal Tournament and Quake fans their long awaited game brought to date that will eventually become a king in the fast paced FPS category. It does that successfully since it does lack competition in that aspect, but the game isn't bad nor great. It's a mediocre creation of a great style of games. I really hope someone will make a FPS like the old school Quake III Arena which I still play, that will really raise the bar once more. I'm sure there will be lots of gamers playing it. Maybe it's name would even be Nexuiz 2.

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