This game is surely a bit meh.
Nothing execptional.

I totally disagree. This is some of the most fun I had in a while with a retro first person shooter. Second best build engine fps right after BLOOD.

It's the first build engine game that I actually played to the end. Can't say I liked the story, and the guy yelling at you through the screens was just annoying. But gameplay? Pretty good. Level design? Yeah, pretty good!

I guess I'd like blood too but somehow it never grabbed my interest enough to get me further than the first level or two...

I'm only about 2 hours in, so I don't want to give a full review yet....which I'll probably eventually write on here lol, but yeah......Blood and Duke Nukem it is not :(

EDIT

Now the game is glitching out when I fire at enemies.

Much regret.

I was only able to play a little bit before the framerates were spazzing out on my 2021 gaming PC lol, it was weird, I messed around with all of the options to try and fix it, and nothing worked. But the little bit I played was pretty boring. Have the main character be a woman, but make her look like Sgt. Slaughter in a full body suit and cosplay as Duke Nukem, HOLY YIKESOLA. I took my refunded 10 dollars and bought Secret Agent HD, Garou: Mark of the Wolves, and another game or two, so there was a happy ending.

replaying it for the millionth time. I think the only bad thing I have to say is that Shelly doesn't say anything funny when having a medkit from low health, and... I dunno, no quick melee attack (yes, there is a quick electric baton, but she stays with it).That is after thinking what might I say which is not good about the game.

Personally, amongst the best shooters I played. Like a previous comment, it's fighting with BLOOD for the first place...

Perhaps I should give this game a second try!

Necro-threading a bit but, for the undecided, this title is much, much better than DUKE3D.

It sounds like I'm trolling but I honest-to-goodness don't understand why this should at all be a controversial statement : of course it's better than DN3D - we've got 20+ years of accumulated know-how in game design. Thinking this game can or should only be lesser than its predecessors is an idea I honestly don't understand - it's like being against progress itself. I figure it's probably more of a statement on the last decade's slump in game design than anything, and this is where I do agree with the sentiment: ION FURY has so much more going for it than DOOM ETERNAL that I can only shake my head.

(For my money, in point of fact, THE GATE for DN3D is the way to go, plus or minus a level or two: Tannhauser Gate alone is better than the entire original base game.)

Now ION FURY is no DUSK, that's true, but then again there is only one DUSK - as I painfully learned when I launched AMID-EVIL.

Big, sprawling levels with lots of varied enemies; amazing visual flair; terrific flow across levels and episodes; great music and lots of secrets to discover. The alt-fire on the Loverboy is nearly worth the play! I cannot recommend it enough, if you are a fan of pure shooters.

(Ducking torches and pitchforks)

[edited for clarity]

Sorry you feel that way . I just picked it up on sale. If I had known it had a proper save system I'd have gotten it sooner. I love the old school feel. I love build engine games.

I love retro games.
But I feel GzDoom + Brutal Doom is way much better.

I ll reinstall this today and see if I will feel differently