Ion Maiden is a gory thrill-ride like the '90s shooters you remember

Ion Maiden is a shooter like the ones they used to make. In fact, as I burst through a window at 100mph, gun pointed at a city being brought to its knees, I do a double take: for a split-second I think I am back inside Duke Nukem 3D’s iconic first level, it’s uncanny.

Ion Maiden is not a replication of the games from the ‘90s so much as it is a game from the ‘90s. Sorta. It is being developed in the original Build engine, which powered shooter classics including Blood, Shadow Warrior, and yes, Duke Nukem 3D. It is also being published by 3D Realms, who made some of those games - it seems to be in good hands, then.

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Almost everything you remember from that era of first-person shooters can be found in Ion Maiden. You move terrifically fast, search for key cards to unlock doors, and gobble up armour shards and health packs that are laid out in neat lines across the floor. Even the protagonist’s portrait sits in the corner of the screen grimacing and getting bloodier as she takes damage.

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