Nerf Legends

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Nerf Legends
Developer(s) Fun Labs
Publisher(s) GameMill Entertainment
Series Nerf
Engine Unreal Engine 4
Platform(s)
Release19 November 2021
Genre(s) First-person shooter
Mode(s) Single-player, multiplayer

Nerf Legends is a first-person shooter video game developed by Fun Labs and published by GameMill Entertainment. It was released on 19 November 2021 for Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S. [1] [2]

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Gameplay

Nerf Legends has a single-player mode, featuring Nerf battles against robots, as well online multiplayer which features both eight-person free-for-all and four-person platoon matches. Players are able to customize their icon and the color of their blasters. [3] [4] [5] They can use 15 Nerf blasters from the Mega, Ultra and Elite lines with special ammunition such as pull darts, push darts, seeker darts, and slow darts. [6] [7] [8]

Development

The game was announced on 11 August 2021. A trailer for the game was released the same day. [9]

The game is scheduled to be delisted from digital storefronts on 31 December 2024. [10]

Reception

Nerf Legends received mostly negative reviews from critics. IGN's Travis Northup gave for Nerf Legends a 2/10, summarizing it as "a broken, painful slog that you shouldn't even consider playing as a joke." [11]

Writing for TechRaptor, Lee Mehr gave the game a 1.5/10, stating that it had "copious technical faults showing it was rushed to market, unexciting shooting mechanics, repetitive to its core, egregious up-front cost, and on and on and on it goes." [12]

Alexandre Galvão of GameBlast wrote, "It wouldn't even be worth it if it was free to play," and gave the game a 1/10. [13]

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References

  1. ↑ "'Nerf Legends' arena shooter brings the iconic blasters to console and PC". Engadget. 12 August 2021.
  2. ↑ "NERF Legends | Blast Your Way to Become the Ultimate Legend". Nerf Legends. Retrieved 13 September 2021.
  3. ↑ "NERF: Legends Will Allow You To Shoot Enemies With Annoying Soft Darts In October". Nintendo Life. 12 August 2021. Retrieved 17 October 2021.
  4. ↑ pm, Matt PurslowUpdated: 12 Aug 2021 8:24 amPosted: 11 Aug 2021 12:00 (November 2021). "Nerf: Legends Is a Sci-Fi Shooter Fully Loaded With the Classic Dart Guns - IGN". IGN.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  5. ↑ "First-Person Shooter Nerf: Legends Launches This October". GameSpot.
  6. ↑ Square, Push (12 August 2021). "Wage War with Foam Bullets in Nerf Legends, an FPS Coming to PS5, PS4 in October". Push Square. Retrieved 17 October 2021.
  7. ↑ Gerblick, Jordan (14 August 2021). "Nerf Legends is blasting its way to PS5, Xbox Series X, and Switch this October". gamesradar.
  8. ↑ Stewart, Marcus. "Engage In Sci-Fi Nerf Gun Battles In Nerf: Legends". Game Informer. Archived from the original on 11 August 2021.
  9. ↑ Nerf Legends Announcement Trailer, 11 August 2021, retrieved 26 October 2021
  10. ↑ NERF Legends from GameMill also being delisted on December 31st, 12 November 2024, retrieved 12 November 2024
  11. 1 2 Northup, Travis (1 December 2021). "Nerf Legends Review - This FPS is a painful, barely functional slog that you shouldn't even consider playing as a joke". IGN . Retrieved 1 December 2021.
  12. ↑ Mehr, Lee (27 December 2021). "NERF Legends Review". TechRaptor. Retrieved 7 March 2024.
  13. ↑ Galvão, Alexandre. "Análise: Nerf Legends (Multi) é um erro e não deveria existir". GameBlast. Retrieved 7 March 2024.
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