Nerf Arena Blast

Nerf Arena Blast is a first person shooter that uses the Unreal Engine, featuring a sports arena in which players use guns either from or inspired by Hasbro's line of foam-projectile-launching Ner guns. Like other Unreal-based games, it is oriented around competitive arena-based play, via teamplay, old-style deathmatch, and other match types, and can be played either multiplayer or single-player with bots. Single-player play features tournament modes with progression and scores. It can be played in matches of up to 16 players via LAN or Internet.

Released: 31 October 1999
Platforms: Windows
Genres: First-person shooter Shooter
Developers: —
Publishers: Hasbro Interactive
Modes: Multiplayer Single-player
Perspective: First person
Themes: Action
Engine: Unreal Engine 1.5
Country: United States
Age ratings: ESRB T
Languages: English

About

Nerf Arena Blast (known as Nerf Arena in Europe) is a first-person shooter developed by Visionary Media, Inc. and published by Hasbro Interactive, released under their Atari Interactive label. The game, based on Nerf, was touted as a "family-friendly version of multiplayer combat games like Quake III: Arena and Unreal Tournament", and was supported by Hasbro Interactive until that company gave its rights and properties over to Infogrames. The cutscenes were animated by Mondo Media alongside them doing the in-game art.

Keywords

online
arena shooter
family friendly
colorful
bink video
based on - brand
in-game map editor
walking through walls
difficulty level
dart
camping
non-violent

Media

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Gameplay

The player starts on a team called the "Twisters", an amateur team competing for the "Nerf Champion of the World" title against 6 professional teams. The player must compete in each team's 3 arenas, totaling 21 playable maps (including the amateur and championship maps), plus a handful of "Bonus Round" maps. In order to compete against the next team the user has to place in the top three in each event (PointBlast, SpeedBlast, and BallBlast).

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