3D Realms Is Back With a New Game On an Old Engine: Ion Maiden

Longing for the old days of first-person shooters? 3D Realms has you covered with Ion Maiden. Running on the same engine as Duke Nukem 3D, Blood, Shadow Warrior, and others, this game aims to reclaim the mayhem of the 90s shooters. Because, basically, it IS a 90s shooter.

Ion Maiden is currently in Early Access on Steam, with the first level set playable. Reviews are Overwhelmingly Positive, with only 13 negative reviews out of 554 total.

What do you think? Are you in the mood for a new classic FPS?

https://store.steampowered.com/app/562860/Ion_Maiden/

jdodson Admin wrote on 04/15/2018 at 03:00am

This is actually an incredible idea. Why build a new game engine that looks like an old one when you could just use an old one?

I wonder if now more old Doom clones will come out using the open source engine as all of that tech is available under the GPL to Doom 3?

jdodson Admin wrote on 04/15/2018 at 03:32am

Sort of. https://kotaku.com/doom-now-with-some-2k-textures-1825162539

Travis Admin Post Author wrote on 04/15/2018 at 04:18am

Your use of "Doom clones" took me back to a time when everyone called any FPS a Doom clone. :D

But wow that mod looks cool. I hope this one finishes.

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