History VideoGame / IonFury

* KillerCop: Shelly is quite fond of excessive force.

* KillerRobot: The Warmech is this.

The game was released on UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} on August 15th, 2019, after a period in Early Access, and on UsefulNotes/PlayStation4, UsefulNotes/XboxOne, and UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch on May 14th, 2020. An expansion, subtitled ''Aftershock'', is in development and slated for a 2023 release. A sequel, ''Phantom Fury'', and a [[https://twitter.com/freschism/status/1559096016602816514 distant prequel]] RTS, ''Tempest Rising'', are in production.

* CanonWelding: Trailers for Phantom Fury shows that the setting takes place in the same one that ''Videogame/{{SiN}}'' takes place in, with Shelly being an acquaintance of John Blade.

* MonsterCloset: The game world is full of small rooms and crannies for enemies to appear in, usually as part of a TeleportingKeycardSquad ambush. Sometimes these crannies have doors for you or the enemies to open. Other times the enemies use explosives to make their own doors.

The game was released on UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} on August 15th, 2019, after a period in Early Access, and on UsefulNotes/PlayStation4, UsefulNotes/XboxOne, and UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch on May 14th, 2020. An expansion, subtitled ''Aftershock'', is in development and slated for a 2022 release. A sequel, ''Phantom Fury'', and a [[https://twitter.com/freschism/status/1559096016602816514 distant prequel]] RTS, ''Tempest Rising'', are in production.

The game was released on UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} on August 15th, 2019, after a period in Early Access, and on UsefulNotes/PlayStation4, UsefulNotes/XboxOne, and UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch on May 14th, 2020. An expansion, subtitled ''Aftershock'', is in development and slated for a 2022 release. A sequel, ''Phantom Fury'', is in production.

The game was released on UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} on August 15th, 2019, after a period in Early Access, and on UsefulNotes/PlayStation4, UsefulNotes/XboxOne, and UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch on May 14th, 2020. An expansion, subtitled ''Aftershock'', is in development and slated for a 2022 release.

The game was released on UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} on August 15th, 2019, after a period in Early Access, and on UsefulNotes/PlayStation4, UsefulNotes/XboxOne, and UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch on May 14th, 2020. An expansion, subtitled ''Aftershock'', is currently in development and slated for a 2022 release.

The game was released on UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} on August 15th, 2019, after a period in Early Access, and on UsefulNotes/PlayStation4, UsefulNotes/XboxOne, and UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch on May 14th, 2020.

* TakeThat: [[spoiler: Duke Nukem's outfit can be seen in a store window before the preview Campaign bossfight, to which Shelly can remark "Where's that big head of yours? Don't answer."]]

* TamerAndChaster: Bombshell's actual incarnation from her [[VideoGame/{{Bombshell}} eponymous game]] and this game is very much less sexualized than her previous ones from the 90s when she's supposed to be VideoGame/DukeNukem's partner in his [[Videogame/DukeNukemForever latest game]].

The game was released on UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} on August 15th, 2019, after a period in Early Access. UsefulNotes/PlayStation4, UsefulNotes/XboxOne, and UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch versions will be released later.

* LawmanBaton: Shelly's melee weapon of choice.

* BondOneLiner: Much like [[VideoGame/ShadowWarrior Lo Wang]], Shelly is fond of spouting out one-liners after killing enemies.

* GenreThrowback: To Build Engine games such as ''VideoGame/DukeNukem 3D'', ''VideoGame/ShadowWarrior'', and ''{{VideoGame/Blood}}''.

* WaxingLyrical: Shelly sometimes quotes Music/TheOffspring by saying "you gotta keep them separated" amidst carnage.

* ShoutOut: Wooh boy is there a [[ReferenceOverdosed lot]] of em.
** The main menu art is an homage to the title screen of ''VideoGame/Wolfenstein3D''.
** Similarly, the first key art for ''Ion Fury'' was fashioned after [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/doom/images/0/0a/PSXDoomBoxArt.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20080515055048 the box art]] for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation version of ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}''.
*** The final key art is clearly inspired to [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/doom/images/8/85/Doom.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20080913150951 the one]] for the UsefulNotes/MicrosoftWindows version.
** [[spoiler: One of the secrets in the game (or at least the Preview Campaign) is a test chamber lifted right out of the ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'' games, complete with a Companion Cube and a fake cake. Shelly even mutters to herself, "They promised me cake..."]]
*** [[spoiler: In the same secret, it's written in the wall "Cops Are Pigs". Clear reference to ''VideoGame/DukeNukem3D'']].
** [[spoiler: Another secret is a room containing hanged hooks and a bloody mattress with a spinning block coming from the inside from ''Film/HellboundHellraiserII'', Shelly shouts "Holy shit!", quoting Tiffany]].
** [[spoiler: There's a secret trash-covered hideout which references ''Film/{{Aliens}}'', containing Casey, Newt's head doll. Shelly quotes Hudson by saying: "I wonder if there's a sharp stick?"]]
** [[spoiler: As another secret, there's the very same red room from ''Series/TwinPeaks''. Shelly comments with a quote from ''[[Film/TwinPeaksFireWalkWithMe Fire Walk With Me]]'': "Now ain't this dreamy?"]]
** A whole lot of graffiti around the maps are shoutouts to [=FPSes=] of the 90s.
*** More specifically, there's poster promoting Jadus Heskel's homicidal services, that has a set of six pictograms depicting various ways to die. All six come from the original ''VideoGame/RiseOfTheTriad'''s quit messages.
** One of the one-liners that Shelly spouts to the enemies is "[[Film/TheMatrix Dodge this!]]". Another is "[[Film/DieHard The quarterback is toast!]]"
** Upon getting the Ion Bow, Shelly quotes [[Film/RoboCop Clarence Boddicker]].
** When infiltrating the titular building in the Heskel's House of Horrors map, Shelly quips [[Series/BreakingBad "I am the one who knocks"]].
** In the kitchen area of the Heskel's House of Horrors map you can activate a microwave oven. Doing so will prompt Shelly to ask [[VideoGame/ManiacMansion "Is that a hamster"? then the oven will get covered in blood from the inside with an audible pop.]]
** [[spoiler:In one secret area in Heskel's House of Horrors, you can find the dead body of [[VideoGame/DangerousDave Dangerous Dave]].]]
** The logo of the Haskell programming language appears in the walls in several places in the Washington Wasteland section of the preview campaing. And considering it appears in Dr. Heskel's recruitment poster mentioned before, it also makes Heskel's name a PunnyName.
** After taking the elevator at the end of the first map of the preview campaing Shelly will quip [[VideoGame/{{Doom}} "So much for the express elevator to hell."]][[note]]The Express Elevator to Hell is the title of a map in the Master Levels expansion for Doom 2.[[/note]]
** A flyer for Advertising/BigBillHells can be found.
** There's graffiti that says "They put dog meat in your burger", referencing the Duke Burger level from ''Duke Nukem 3D''
** "Mark's Relationship Counseling Service" advertises itself with the quote [[Film/TheRoom "I did not hit her. It's not true. IT'S BULLSHIT! I did not hit her. I DID NOT!"]]
** The last level of the first zone features the apartment from ''Film/{{Hardware}}'' in a secret area, complete with M.A.R.K. 13's skull lying in the shower.
** In the mall in the [[VideoGame/DukeNukem3D D.C. Meltdown level]] you can find one of the killer robots from ''Film/ChoppingMall'' hidden in a secret area.
** In the first level there is a building named [[Film/{{Commando}} "Bennett's Steam" and inside it there is a man impaled with a pipe.]]
** [[spoiler:The super secret area from Zone 1 is the titular room from [[VideoGame/SilentHill4 Silent Hill 4: The Room]].]]
** [[spoiler:The super secret area from Zone 2 contains [[VideoGame/{{Carmageddon}} Max Damage's car.]] ]]
** [[spoiler:The super secret area from Zone 4 is a reference to ''Series/{{Chernobyl}}'', complete with an A3-5 (AZ-5 in Latin alphabet) button and Dyatlov's "not great, not terrible" quote.]]
** [[spoiler:The super secret from Zone 5 involves shooting the moon until it crashes down, exactly as you could do in ''Terminator: Future Shock'', complete with "Ouch!" messages.]]
** [[spoiler:The super secret area from Zone 6 is a recreation of the lab room where you fight the Tyrant in the first ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil'' game. You can even find Jill's hat there.]]
** The GameOver screen that appears if you wait a few moments before restarting the level consists of a bloody "YOU DIED" which bears more than a passing resemblance to the GameOver screen of the original ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil'' games.
** The cheat code "IMLIKEMAX" lets you "Feel the [[VideoGame/MaxPayne Payne]]" with BulletTime.
** A particularly hard to reach secret area in the first map holds [[Film/BladeRunner an origami unicorn, at which Shelly comments "Like tears in rain."]]
** Yet another of Shelly's one-liners is [[VideoGame/DeusEx "Laputan machine!"]]
** Not two minutes into the first level of the retail edition you'll find an arcade whose games all sport art from old platform games by Apogee (which would later become 3DRealms).

* NonStandardGameOver: If Shelly ends up taking a fall that will kill her, as she falls, you will see the message "You're definitely going to die... Press USE to scream." In addition, just before she hits the ground, the game fades to black quickly and, just as quickly, brings up the standard bloody "YOU DIED" screen with the sound of a body hitting the ground really hard. And no, you don't get to see your health go to zero with a dead/partially exploded/totally headless Shelly portrait.

** Switches that open something far away will frequently have a camera feed next to them pointing at what they just opened to lessen having to hunt around for the way forward.

* AntiFrustrationFeatures: Just before reaching a PointOfNoReturn, the game will tell you how many secrets you've missed up until that point, so you don't miss your chance for a 100% completion.

* RevolversAreJustBetter: Bombshell's starting gun is the "Loverboy", a [[HandCannon ridiculously oversized]], ''three-barreled'' revolver. Unlike most starting guns, it isn't completely useless, doing a decent amount of damage per shot.

* HandCannon: Shelly's standard pistol, the "Loverboy". And as ludicrous as it sounds, [[AluminumChristmasTrees eighteen-shot revolvers actually exist]].