![]() ![]() Every time you blast a tougher opponent with a shotgun, progressively more of its limbs will fly off, creating satisfying gouts of blood. It’s the level of lovingly rendered gore that really puts the blood-soaked cherry on the proverbial sundae. The canyons, caverns, towering power plants, toxic waste disposal facilities, military bases and factories all feel even more bleak and oppressive than a brutalist London apartment block from the 1970s. There’s a full commitment to creating a grimy industrial hell world here. You can demake the visuals even further if you wish, lowering the resolution of the scenery down to 360p or even 240p! Prodeus has a unique visual style where modern dynamic lighting and particle effects mingle with a “demake” effect on enemies, weapons and scenery, making them artificially pixellated. The grimy, brutal feel of Prodeus will definitely be its biggest appeal for many and it delivers on this point with gusto. There’s a protagonist who can carry unfeasibly vast amounts of ammo, and run as fast as a car without getting tired, with a handy illustration of his face on the bottom to signify how wounded he’s gotten. Prodeus will feel instantly familiar to any lover of the past and present Doom games. After each level you move across an overworld to the next one where you’ll have to find keys to doors, flip switches, destroy some things and head to the exit, killing everything in your path. There’s no one to talk to, no help on the way and nothing to do other than gun down every masked trooper and monster in your way. The land is an endless greyish-orange industrial hellscape. In short order, you flick a switch, escape from your cell, pick up a gun and start shooting zombies and monsters. ![]() You’re in some sort of prison cell in a techno-nightmare world as fire rages outside. Prodeus starts with no explanation or fanfare. Prodeus takes the boomer shooter philosophy and turns it into borderline religious dogma, and you can tell this right from the start. It’s not unusual for the last couple of enemies you need for a 100% kill count to be hidden in a secret area.The advent of the “boomer shooter” has become something of a phenomenon in recent years: scaling back the cinematic presentation, regenerating health and more “realistic” aesthetic of more modern FPS titles in favour of some old-fashioned run n’ gun fun. ![]() Secrets in Prodeus have had some more thought put into them than many “boomer shooters.” You don’t simply get more health/armor/ammo here secrets frequently give you early access to new weapons, valuable currency like Ore Fragments, or are concealing crucial parts of the stage like the automap. This is the first of a series of guides on how to find all the secrets and valuable Ore Fragments in Prodeus‘s first official campaign, “The Kingdom Between.” How to Find All the Secrets and Ore in Sacrum Prodeus has a big player base, but the developers changed a lot since its time in Early Access, so there’s a lot of outdated information lying around about many of its quirks, mechanics, and hidden areas. It’s a hardcore ’90s-styled first-person shooter that owes a big stylistic debt to Doom, with bloody action, high-speed combat, and of course, tons of well-hidden, questionably fair secrets. Prodeus has just come out of Steam Early Access, and to the Xbox Game Pass.
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