If running about and getting hit with real-life Nerf pellets sounds a bit too exhausting, you might want to check out Nerf Legends, a new first-person shooter that lets you shoot things to your heart's content while staying firmly seated on your sofa. Supercharge your blasting with power-ups like magnetic pull darts, push darts, seeker darts, and slow darts to change the tide of battle. Chief among the many gameplay atrocities you’ll endure is the godawful gunplay, which is an unsatisfying, frustrating, and buggy pile of mistakes. As you can see in the trailer above it's targeting the youngsters of today by repeating the lyrics "I'm a SAVAGE" over and over again, but that aside it looks like a competent and colourful shooter. Players battle in large arenas in either single-player obstacle course style score runs or multiplayer 4v4 team or eight player free-for-all matches.

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To start the purchasing process, it is necessary to sign in with the Nintendo Account and the Nintendo Network ID. Nerf: Legends thrusts you into a futuristic, sci-fi world where you’ll come face-to-face with legions of robot enemies and ultimate boss masters. Unfortunately, if you choose not to heal to avoid the beep, you get the heartbeat sound, so you can choose between your preferred version of hell.Instead you’re just told you need to do it and then a robot makes corny jokes at you along the way, as if playing through each level wasn’t bad enough on its own.

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Most enemies are little robot spiders or humanoids that pepper you with bullets while waddling around waiting to be killed. And, of course, all the issues with gunplay still apply to these battles, only with slightly higher stakes.

Because that’s what I remember most fondly from those childhood Nerf fights with my brothers: all the melee attacks. Most sections amount to standing in an area and fighting unlimited waves of enemies until a timer counts down or finding giant red buttons and shooting them with your gun to open a door. As always, be sure to drop a vote in our poll and comment down below with your potential picks for the week. NERF Legends tries to recreate this for the gaming market, packing in what seems on the surface to be plenty of content into a family friendly first-person shooter. Collect dart powerups such as magnetic push, magnetic pull, seeker darts, and freeze to change the tide of battles!