Nitro Family

List Price: $19.99 Discount Price: $0.01

Features:

• Rage through 15 fully destructible levels and beat back 50 over-the-top enemies
• Deadly dual-hand weapon system helps you fight never-ending hordes
• Blast enemies in mid-air with streams of bullets for maximum devastation
• Go into Euphoria mode, where the action slows but the killing intensifies
• Rely on Maria, your piggy-backing partner, with her turtle-neck whip, to watch your back

Accessories:

PC Gamer (1-year)

Customer Reviews:

This thing is great! [Posted on 2004-07-14]
Another fun and addictive shooter that gets forgotten due to an overwhelmed market. This game combines dark 'B-movie horror flick' humor with all the intensity and dark sarcasm of the serious sam games. Great alternative rock music powers the backround. A very creative group of characters are all over the place in this game. A really ugly (and mean) little kid gets kidnapped by some gruesome characters. You, and your sister (both equally gruesome...well SHE ain't that bad to look at...), are going to plow your way through all of them to get that boy back. It is worth every penny of the twenty bucks they are currently asking for it. Grab this one up before it goes away forever. It actually almost has. Have fun. Just know this first. While most of the graphics are choice, some of them are dated. But the action is so frantic, you'll hardly notice.

Hey Gringo! Hey Buddy! [Posted on 2004-10-21]
I've played games for years. I like FPS. Nitro Family is a fast paced action game. I like the humor and style. It's been a good relaxer after work. I recommend it. Especially for the price.

ValuSoft Does It Again! [Posted on 2005-05-30]
Can the infamous ValuSoft publish a good game? The answer is apparently, no. Its a shame too, cause this could have been a cool game. Its basic gameplay can be summed up in three words, Serious Sam Clone. Yes its another game of nothing but mindlessly shooting everything that moves. The gimmick for this game was supposed to be its dual-wield style gun handling (like Halo 2 or Goldeneye 007), but unfortuneatly its just not that good. First off the game has TERRIBLE level design, I mean absolutely coma-inducing. Its almost always just a series of halls strung together. The game also attempts to integrate a combo system (using two weapons at a time), but ultimately its completely pointless. Also, keep in mind that the same people who made this game, wrote this (taken from the readme in the demo):

"Nitro Family" mainly focuses on images of the deepest desires of man like violence, sensuality and beauty, with a pure enjoyment of game. By embodying and mixing those images in non-serious way, players will experience a strange but bright and funny atmosphere like B-movies' unique taste with various of original gameplays which are never seen before in any FPS games.

Wow, um...okay...
DO NOT BUY THIS GAME!

Don't compare this to Serious Sam [Posted on 2006-04-10]
Not much to recommend this game on other than the somewhat humorous and senseless violence.

Pros: Funny carnage, you get to kill obnoxious stereotypes of pretty much every ethnic group in suitably graphic and cartoonish ways. Somewhat interesting punk rock soundtrack that you can thankfully turn off after you've heard the song repeat for the Nth time.

Cons: Gameplay is repetitive and buggy as hell. Some doors won't open, I had to cheat to get through some of the levels.

Level design in nonexistent with hardly any thought to playability (this gets worse as the game progresses, indicating they ran up against a deadline). There are numerous dead ends with nothing there, requiring backtracking. Long stretches with nothing going on.

This game seems like a few guys licensed an engine, threw the it together, had their burnout friends beta-test it and rushed it to market.

I'll probably never buy another "Valuesoft" game again, this was so bad.

The fact that I finished this game (albeit by rushing through some levels in 'ghost' cheat mode) is only due to a slightly disturbing pleasure in blowing up obnoxious fat Mexican chicks who shout "Hey Greengo!" and shoot at you. However, it's probably more due to my now obvious obsessive-compulsive disorder... Which I guess I should thank Valuesoft for bringing to my attention and making it obvious that I am in dire need of treatment.

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