Necrodome

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An absolutely wonderful albeit less well known release from the boomer shooter era. A simpler time when games were games not political statements, and the people developing them didn't have ulterior motives beyond you simply having fun for the hard earned money you spent. Those who loved Duke Nukem and Doom and Carmageddon will feel right at home. This particular release of it is not ideal since it doesn't feature any sort of modern day QoL changes or remastered textures, but for the low sale price of $5 it's not really fair to be expecting those things anyway. This is the raw 1996 version that you experienced back then if you were lucky enough. Make sure to download the patch to be able to use mouselook, a must nowadays since originally you had to play this strictly with a keyboard which makes the driving combat very cumbersome. Get the patch, fine tune your controls, get a feel for it and give it a chance.

Terrible controls and outdated UI

very fun game is very arcadeish it works allright a few and crashes here and there but manage to play the whole game

The origins of Raven Software <3

WARNING!!!: for me at least, this game was crashing within 1 second every time I tried to launch it. There is a fan patch you fan find through PCGamingWiki that will fix this, as well as improving mouse controls and audio, plus includes some shareware levels. That being said, this game is not very fun to play, and it makes me pretty upset to say that. It's a great novelty for retro shooter enthusiasts, but at it's core it's a shooter where you attempt to use a slow-turning car (that only shoots in the direction it's facing) to fight reactive on-foot enemies. They had an incredibly promising concept here; the car's pivot function, the ability to switch to on-foot controls or aim the car's turret manually, and the array of items you can find make this feel like a game that should be great, but the choice to pit you against on-foot enemies rather than other vehicles ruins the entire experience. The devs were definitely too ahead of their time with this one, and the potential got wasted on a mediocre product.

Plenty of clever ideas are buried under the dust and ancient control schemes of the 1990s.