Madness: Project Nexus
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Madness: Project Nexus (2012 on Browser)
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MADNESS: Project Nexus is a third-person Run n' Gun-slash-Beat'Em Up filled with arcade-style action and button-mashing brutality. Train your custom Madness combatant for the endless trials of Arena Mode, building weapons from your own sick imagination to get through just one more wave of deranged assailants. Or, play through the core campaign as the antiheroes of the Madness universe and unearth the terrible secrets of Project Nexus itself.
MADNESS: Project Nexus challenges your use of immersive & tactical combat, on-your-feet decision making, environmental navigation, a massive selection of weapons, and a pretty heavy dose of comic blood and violence. You'll progress through the game by navigating between rooms and overworld stages, engaging baddies along the way (who become wiser and more tactical as you advance). Not everyone is cut out to survive; we think you may be the exception.
Can you overcome the hordes of gun-toting Agents, sword-brandishing assassins, and bullet-deflecting giants that Project Nexus throws in your path? Grab your trusty weapon and let's find out.
MADNESS: Project Nexus features:
Story Campaign: Take the reigns of the heroes of the Madness universe, and infiltrate heavily guarded installations, survive cultist-ridden tunnel networks, fight back against dynamite-wielding cannibal bandits, and dodge the grasp of armor-plated Mag Agents over three times your size. Play solo or locally with up to three other people (using Xbox-compatible controllers).
* Arena Mode:* Create your character from scratch, advance through specialized skill tiers, and build a unique Madness warrior who is equipped to take on wave after wave of never-ending badguys in several combat environments. Build your own custom weapons and outfit them with the latest technology to give yourself the edge you're going to need to pull through.
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Average score: 5.0 out of 5 (based on 2 ratings with 1 reviews)
The Good
This game is fun. Very fun. Gameplay is a bit wonky at first, but once you get the hang of it it's very addicting and satisfying to play. Even though you are violently killing 99% of the time, the game barely gets stale and remains fun through the whole Campaign.
Art and sound design is expectedly top-quality. Nothing to complain there. Worldbuilding is also pretty good, the game gives you many snippets of the world around you that you aren't forced to check but it's cool to see none the less.
The Arena Mode caught me off-guard with it's quality. Very interesting lore-wise, cool missions and the arenas themselves are more fun than you expect being just horde modes.
The Bad
Despite not feeling sick of it, I have to admit the game is repetitive. If mindlessly gunning and slicing through hordes for most of the game isn't for you, it will get old quick.
The Story Mode isn't very story-focused. The main plot is rather simple and the characters are kinda bland, especially in their dialogue, it's kinda obvious these guys weren't built for chit-chatting. The Arena Mode surprisingly had a more interesting plot, though that might be incredibly personal.
Losing in some stages in Story Mode can be pretty frustrating as the game likes to give you very sparse checkpoints. In Arena Mode that can be even worse, as you don't gain any rewards for losing a stage, this can lead to a pretty rocky start in harder difficulties as your character starts off rather weak.
The Bottom Line
A solid action game for just shooting, slicing, smashing, breaking, destroying and ripping apart grey men, with a few more neat surprises along the way.
Windows · by Minhoca (1722) · 2025
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Game added October 2, 2021. Last modified March 6, 2022.