Ion Fury Has Gone Gold For Consoles

<p>Ion Fury launched last year and has become one of the biggest successes in recent memory for 3D Realms&period; The game gained significant attention for being the first game in over two decades utilizing the Build engine&period; The Build engine powered such classic shooters as Duke Nukem 3D&comma; Blood&comma; Shadow Warrior and Redneck Rampage&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Ion Fury pushes the engine to new heights&comma; featuring some of the most complex geometry ever put into the game&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s also one of the biggest games ever made on the engine&comma; featuring sprawling levels that interconnect into several zones&period; Due to this&comma; the game is unusually demanding&comma; and requires fairly modern hardware to run well&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Ion Fury also continues the Build engine trend of talking protagonists&period; Though instead of getting yet another male stereotype&comma; we&&num;8217&semi;re given a female&period; Shelly &&num;8220&semi;Bombshell&&num;8221&semi; Harrisson made her debut in Bombshell&comma; which 3D Realms published in 2016&period; The game received somewhat mixed reception due to numerous bugs and other issues&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It was originally intended as a Duke Nukem game&comma; but due to a lawsuit by Gearbox Software&comma; 3D Realms were forced to switch characters&period; Bombshell was originally going to be in Duke Nukem Forever but was scrapped&period; They retooled her concept and gave her a robot arm&period; The result was a heroine that felt more like her own thing&comma; though didn&&num;8217&semi;t really feel at home in the game&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;"alignnone size-large wp-image-157270" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;04&sol;23045745&sol;20190815090455&lowbar;1-1024x576&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Ion Fury Screenshot" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center">Ion Fury Is A True Old-School FPS<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>Enter Ion Fury&period; Originally added as a pre-order bonus to Bombshell&comma; the game was going to be a mere spinoff prequel&period; But the project quickly grew in scope&comma; soon becoming a massive game in its own right&period; The story was also written entirely independently of the one in Bombshell&comma; giving Ion Fury more of a cyberpunk feel to it&comma; in contrast to Bombshell&&num;8217&semi;s straight up sci-fi tone&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Ion Fury eventually reached early access in late 2018&comma; and was fully released in 2019&period; The game received universal praise for its gameplay and music&comma; which was composed by demoscene veteran Jarkko Rotsten aka Roz&period; Alongside the original PC release&comma; console versions were also announced as coming later&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>And judging by a recent tweet by 3D Realms&comma; that seems to be very soon&period; The console ports have just gone gold&comma; which means development is finished and the game is awaiting release&period; The game will release on Switch&comma; XBox One and PS4&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote class&equals;"twitter-tweet" data-width&equals;"500" data-dnt&equals;"true">&NewLine;<p lang&equals;"en" dir&equals;"ltr">Soon on a console near you &&num;8211&semi; but not too near&comma; and wash your hands&period; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;t&period;co&sol;awcAuwhvLc">pic&period;twitter&period;com&sol;awcAuwhvLc<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&mdash&semi; Phantom Fury &lpar;&commat;Bombshell&lowbar;Game&rpar; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;Bombshell&lowbar;Game&sol;status&sol;1252326171481702406&quest;ref&lowbar;src&equals;twsrc&percnt;5Etfw">April 20&comma; 2020<&sol;a><&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;platform&period;twitter&period;com&sol;widgets&period;js" charset&equals;"utf-8"><&sol;script><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>If you wanna check out Ion Fury before it comes on consoles&comma; you can still <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;store&period;steampowered&period;com&sol;app&sol;562860&sol;Ion&lowbar;Fury&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">get it on Steam<&sol;a>&period; And you can expect a review of the Switch version coming as soon as it&&num;8217&semi;s ready&period; You should also check out their game <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;wrath-aeon-of-ruin-early-access-first-impressions&sol;">Wrath<&sol;a> which uses the Quake engine&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;