Ned Kelly: Armored Outlaw

This alternate-history FPS has a great core concept, but its reach exceeds what the execution can live up to - Original review continues here but see bottom for post-2024-05-14 update amendment. There's a lot to like here - the levels are a decently large size and allow a fair amount of sneaking around, there's a pleasing variety to the weapons, and the shooting is generally satisfyingly chunky. You generally won't get away with just trying to tank your way through. Unfortunately, there's also a lot of bad jank - ranging from "the pause menu doesn't pause the game properly" and "while it handles non-1920x1080 resolutions, it doesn't scale the UI properly when it does so and you will lose relevant HUD information as a result", through "level design has a number of invisible walls that block your shots for no reason" and "for some reason you can't retain your weapons from one level to the next" and all the way to "if you aren't careful, reloading a weapon and switching it for another will lose you the ammunition that you just loaded" and "the level access codes don't work beyond the 3rd level". Stuff that actually gets in the way of being able to enjoy what the game offers. These things are a real shame, not because they completely break the game (although they are annoying) but because if you play it for a while you'll start to form a clear idea of what this game could be with some more bugfixes and polish, and I really want to see how that version of the game plays. I'm giving it a thumbs up but I will say this - at the price of the game I think it's worth it as-is, but you'll get the most out of it if you go in knowing that there are bugs in it which may never get fixed. EDIT 2024-05-14: The developer released a new build earlier in the year which I've revisited, and I'm happy to confirm that the level code issue is resolved. I've completed the main campaign and been pleasantly surprised that there's a (pretty tough) post-campaign level as well. I have not run into the ammo-loss-after-reloading issue since trying the new build.

VG++

A very cool, Ned Kelly based, first person shooter. Good gun variety, really nice open levels, and a toggleable helmet. Definitely recommend checking this game out.

It's awesome! I haven't played it in awhile, but it's still as fun as i remember it.

Yippee Ki Yay ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ !

horrivel

"You bloody larkins!"

Very cool game about being Ned Kelly, I loved it! We need more games like this!