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A retro-styled first-person shooter where you dive, slide, dual-wield and bend time through action-movie firefights.
Released 19 Sep 2018
Dive Through Gunfights
Shoot in Slow Motion
Dual-Wield Any Weapon
MAXIMUM Action is a brutal and satisfying physics-based first person shooter influenced by Hong Kong cinema, heroic slow motion bloodshed, and old-school FPS ACTION.
Developed by George Mandell · Published by Balloon Moose Games
Maximum Action is a first-person shooter built around playing an action-movie hero in fast, violent firefights. Its visual style draws on retro shooters and 1980s and 1990s action films.
Fight through enemy-filled levels using firearms, including dual-wielded weapons. Combine dives, slides, kicks and jumps with bullet time to change how you enter and move through each fight.
Replay levels with different weapons or added enemies, and use the level editor to make custom stages. Workshop support adds community-made maps and weapons; VHS tapes unlock endless maps, while gold figures unlock cheats.
Players who enjoy the game often praise its slow-motion gunfights, responsive movement and retro action-film style, which let them improvise flashy approaches to encounters. Some also value replaying levels and trying community-made maps and weapons. Reviews also repeatedly raise concerns about the limited amount of official content, clunky or buggy systems, and slow development.
MAXIMUM Action is the stress ball of first-person shooters. If you are looking for a quick dose of highly replayable sandbox slow-motion heroic bloodshed with homages to classic ’80s and '90s action flicks then MAXIMUM Action might just be the FPS you’ve been dreaming of.
No complicated skill trees, leveling up, or drawn-out cutscenes, just pure fun that gets straight to the point.
Where MAXIMUM Action shines is in its emphasis on creativity and replayability. The entire game has been designed as a sandbox for the player to experiment in. From simply approaching levels with different combinations of dives, slides, and kicks, to a fully-fledged level editor allowing players to create action in any way they see fit. Further, use the sandbox menu to replay levels with different combinations of weapons or add more enemies to up the challenge.
And with full workshop and mod support, experiment with hundreds of custom levels and weapons to spice up the action!
Getting the best experience out of MAXIMUM Action requires a bit of creativity and imagination from the player, and I understand not everyone is up to the challenge! But if you’ve always wanted to play a role in your own balls to the wall action movie then I’d say give MAXIMUM Action a try!
-George Mandell
ACTION TO THE MAX!
| Platforms | Windows |
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| Achievements | 1 |
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| Controller support | PlayStation, Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
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