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Dread Templar Free Download GAMESPACK.NET Become the scariest thing in hell and beyond, as you embark on your quest for vengeance in the intense, fast-paced campaign of Dread Templar, made by a solo developer over the course of 3 years. The game is reminiscent of classics from the 90s, but with a modern twist and gameplay depth on par with contemporary shooters.Experiment with endless combinations of more than 100 different upgrades for a vast arsenal of badass weapons and powers to define your own playstyle. Scour every inch of the game’s 25+ enormous levels rife with hidden side areas, secret locations and puzzles to get all the possible unlocks.Blast your way through hordes of diverse demonic and fiendish enemies and prevail in up to ten thrilling boss fights. Explore the many distinct, unique campaign environments: from the dark realm of hell to frozen pirate ships, all rendered in retro, but surprisingly detailed pixel-art graphics style, supercharged by a head-banging original soundtrack. TOP/BEST ADULT VIDEO GAMES IN UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (USA)

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While I’m always excited to try out the next new, innovative game on the market, sometimes all you need for enjoyment is a game that’s simple and to the point. Dread Templar isn’t going to knock your socks off with revolutionary gameplay or cutting-edge technology, but it sets out and succeeds to make an action-packed experience with little downtime in between battles. This boomer shooter is metal as hell and rarely gives you a second to breathe, meaning it’s just the type of FPS for me.Dread Templar is a boomer shooter by T19 Games and published by Fulqrum Publishing. You take control of the, well, Dread Templar, and slash and shoot your way across five episodes. I described it as “taking badass to the next level” during its Early Access phase, and it certainly remains that way in the final release.

Fast-paced action with a focus on melee combat and stealth.

Changes from my time during Early Access include far more content with new enemies, episodes, weapons, and quality of life changes. Surprisingly, Dread Templar also features a story, but to quickly address this, it’s nothing to pay attention to at all. In fact, Dread Templar really doesn’t need a story to justify the relentless horde of demons that scuttle after the hero. In between episodes are short cutscenes explaining the narrative, but this adds pretty much nothing to the experience. Just a heads-up, some FPS players like some story in their games — well, maybe look elsewhere. What is worth noting is the overall feel and gunplay of Dread Templar. Every weapon, from your duel pistols to gauntlets that shoot out giant killer beams, feels substantial and exceedingly powerful. Enemies don’t have a great deal of health on normal but still pose a challenge with projectiles or just getting overrun by sheer numbers. Because of the low health pool, weapons cut through these baddies easily and result in spouts of blood and gore. I’m all about weapon “feel” in my shooters, and Dread Templar nails it. Assassin’s Creed III

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Weapon variety was impressive in Early Access and continues to impress with a few more added to the roster. Notably, I enjoyed using a rocket launcher that shoots several projectiles at once, covering a wide area. Another new weapon was a gauntlet that, when holding down primary fire, basically disintegrated enemies. These are all exceedingly fun, and so too are the upgrades you use. Dread Templar features an upgrade system where you can find new abilities to slot into your character as you go through levels. You’ll need to spend a currency to unlock these abilities, giving heavy incentive to explore levels rather than complete them as fast as possible. The results of your exploration are usually fruitful and lead to cool new variations of previously used weapons. The double-barreled shotgun, for example, transforms into this demonic weapon that shoots out wide beams and tears through enemies. My favorite upgrade increased the firepower of my bow and arrow weapon, allowing each subsequent hit to do more damage than the last. Dread Templar comes close to emulating the brutality of Doom’s main hero, meaning this is a wonderful power trip for those looking to just rip and tear.

A rich, historical setting inspired by the legendary Knights Templar.

The weapons are a big part of the reason it succeeds. The silenced Uzis and super shotgun are both riotous fun, which you would expect from a game that’s all about strafing and dropping rounds on people. However, the Black Bow is surprisingly fun and having to draw back your bow and time shots for maximum damage adds a nice frisson to the combat. Then there’s the trap launcher, a trap fired from your glove that electrifies and stuns enemies to give you a little time to reposition. I also found a bizarre love for the dual katanas, your base melee weapon, which had an alternate fire mode that sticks the two together and lets you throw it like a spear. Hit an enemy with this and chances are they’ll turn into chunks immediately, but lining up a shot and hitting several enemies at once is euphoric.You’ll also prowl through tight arenas designed to throw you and your enemies into close-quarters deathmatches and hunt out secrets – rewarded by “you found a secret” text appearing on the screen – to get upgrades. Assassin’s Creed Odyssey 

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These upgrades, along with a bullet time feature, Dread Templar, largely feel superflous and the game was better when I ignored them. The upgrades require you to find both the rune and a resource to unlock a slot to put the ability into. This could boost the amount of ammo you can carry for a specific weapon, lower a cooldown, or up the damage or firerate. These are silver runes – they are all fairly mundane. The golden runes might let you, say, turn your shotgun into a sniper rifle. However, it’s so much work to get access to these golden runes – which require a special, more expensive, golden slot – that many may not even bother.The pacing of the combat remains fairly decent throughout. Occasionally, during a close quarters firefights, I found myself wishing some enemies would die a little quicker as i’m in a spot where everything is dead but one big, ineffectual, monster and i’m just pumping round after round into it with basically no risk to myself. In arenas it just hurts the pacing, whereas in corridors it can lead to some deaths that feel unfair.

A variety of weapons and gadgets to upgrade and unlock.

Dread Templar is the story of the eponymous protagonist, who gains unholy powers to fight the armies of the unholy. Or something. In typical retro-inspired fashion, there isn’t a very prevalent narrative. That’s probably a good thing, since the narrated cutscenes between episodes are kind of better off ignored. The gameplay is pretty similar to Quake, though the movement and physics remind me more of Turok: Dinosaur Hunter. It’s fast and punchy, featuring a larger arsenal of weapons than your typical pre-3D accelerated shooter. It also doesn’t throw hordes of enemies at you in a way that Doom 2 does, but rather gives you tougher baddies to chew on. That’s kind of disappointing, and really reminds me of the drawbacks that came with moving to polygons. One place that Dread Templar distinguishes itself from its inspiration is in its upgrade system. You can unlock slots for the upgrades you find in each of your weapon categories, which allow you to expand damage, firing rate, and ammo, as well as some other tweaks. You obtain these upgrades through finding secrets and clearing side areas. The upgrade system is gravy, as is the variety offered by the side areas. The secrets, however, are somewhat maddening. Assassin’s Creed IV Black Flag

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Dread Templar is a game that might actually feature a setting and a story (and sadly, it tries to convey it through some really poorly voiced cutscenes in between chapters), but it’s not at all meant to be part of the core experience. This is your typical meathead shooter: labyrinthine levels, brutal enemies, weapons that pack a punch, Satanic and demonic imagery, fast-paced movement, and a crap ton of utterly amazing, adrenaline-inducing, heavy metal riffs. In this case, Dread Templar goes for a more Quake-esque approach than your average retro DOOM clone. You can move and aim with the mouse in all directions, jump around like a hyperactive Mexican jumping bean, and the overall imagery just looks very Quake-ish in nature. Everything is polygonal, going for a late 90’s aesthetic. Not just because of the sheer amount of edgelord vibes in the whole presentation, but in the sense that, despite looking dated, it feels like it came from that era when graphics cards and consoles were just starting to become beefy enough for polygons to look like what the concept art wanted it to represent.

Dread Templar looks retro, but that doesn’t mean it looks like crap. There is a sheer distinction between both. It takes a gargantuan effort for a game to look like it was the peak of design from its era, like Prodeus, and not just utter low-poly garbage, like God Damn the Garden. While it’s far from being the best-looking retro shooter I’ve played in a while (again, Prodeus does take the cake), I really enjoyed Dread Templar‘s overall presentation. It also helps that the game runs at around eleven billion frames per second, making everything feel stupidly smooth, fast-paced, and responsive. The key to making a successful retro-styled shooter is to make it look like an old FPS from the glory days of early 3D graphics accelerators, but with enough quality of life features to make it feel fresh, and not so dated to the point of testing your patience. This is where Dread Templar absolutely shines. It does play just like a shooter from 1999 would, and its level structure couldn’t have been more DOOM-esque in nature (its first level is even called E1M1 for crying out loud), but the extra additions add the necessary spice to make this bad boy shine as one of the better shooters I’ve played in years.

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