Cool Water Alert: Watch water drain from fish tank bullet holes in Phantom Fury

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Tanks a lot for that feature, Phantom Fury team.

Every once in a while PC Gamer's Chris Livingston will post something in the site's slack channel with the tagline "COOL WATER ALERT" and I love it when I'm around for those posts. Why, you might ask? Because cool water is always good. It is good when a videogame does something cool with water.

Not impressed? What if I told you that it drains out faster when there're more holes below the waterline. It's true. That's very good, as a video obtained by this ace journalist here at PC Gamer shows. (I embedded it above from Twitter.)

Phantom Fury is an explosive, seat-of-your-pants homage to late 90s shooters. Modeled and textured like a PS2 game, but lit like a 2023 game, Phantom Fury has the kind of sliding movement and chaotic combat you'd expect from an homage to the era when Duke Nukem and Half-Life were the kings. Phantom Fury is coming this year, in 2023, and was announced at last year's Realms Deep event. 

It's also a sequel to Ion Fury, a game Evan Lahti quite liked in 2019. "More than an homage to Duke Nukem, this retro FPS brings '90s FPSes to life in 2019," he said in a 77-scored PC Gamer review.

It's cool to see that while Ion Fury was a take on Duke Nukem 3D, Phantom Fury progresses forward a few years to the Half-Life era in terms of both look and tech inspirations. It's a neat thing to see, and we'll definitely keep an eye on Bombshell Harrison's anti-mutant activities.

You can find Phantom Fury on GOG and Steam so far.

Jonathan Bolding
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Jon Bolding is a games writer and critic with an extensive background in strategy games. When he's not on his PC, he can be found playing every tabletop game under the sun.