Nex Machina vs. Matterfall: Which Shooter Should You Buy?

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Nex Machina vs. Matterfall: Which Shooter Should You Buy?

Housemarque games typically aren’t too heavy on narrative, and both Nex Machina and Matterfall are no exceptions. The plot for both of their latest titles is pretty thin and really only serves as an excuse to throw you into the action. Both follow a similar beat, essentially boiling down to saving humans from cyborgs hell-bent on destroying Earth. Given that both of these titles are based primarily around the gameplay, there’s really no reason to choose one over the other based on story alone.

While the narrative offering in these games only serves as a barebones motivation to get you going on your mission to start blasting, there’s been no half measures put into their aesthetic beauty. Housemarque games are well-known for their visual flair, and both of these titles boast jaw-droppingly gorgeous graphics.

Nex Machina’s voxel enemies explode like glowing radioactive cereal when you really start getting stuck in. Similarly, Matterfall’s futuristic dystopian levels glow decadently in neon colors, going into overdrive when the full spectacle enemy encounters turn the screen into an entrancing laser light show. Particularly running on PS4 at 4K in 60FPS, these are some of the prettiest stylized games you’ll play on your console. It’s hard to pick a clear winner out of both of these games in terms of graphics, as they both use a similar palette and benefit from PS4 Pro support. If we had to, though, Nex Machina’s use of voxel enemy composition creates some utterly mesmerizing explosions, with enemies shattering into thousand of pieces, and so it just nips ahead of Matterfall visually.


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