Bulletstorm is all about shooting stuff up, simple.
It’s a game that doesn’t take itself seriously it’s all about the player killing as much stuff as he can in new and imaginative ways.
Slide, kick, lasso, explode your way through the levels, your eyes lighting up with glee as your death multipliers expand your score allowing you to buy new weapons and upgrades later on.
The guns and the equipment given to you feel powerful, and working through all the "kill skills" was actually quite fun. One of my favourites being, ‘attaching a sticky bomb to an enemy, kicking him into a group of poor souls and exploding him in the middle'. It felt very satisfying watching the limbs scatter while a 4x combo multiplier popped up.
The single player was short, and the story line was pretty poor, but the gameplay was fun, even some of the one liners had me giggling. I'm a sucker for penis jokes.
BS is good to pick up and play, when you've got an itchy trigger finger, and your brain has given up on completing complicated tasks.
It’s defiantly a game worth picking up, but won't be remembered as a classic.
Oh yeah MP was hardly worth putting on the disc, I mean co-op only? No ta.
Good+
Gameplay
Gun mechanics
Skill kills
One liners
Bad-
Poor story line
No lasting appeal
Poor MP
Back in 2011, Epic Games and People Can Fly launched a Call of Duty parody - Duty Calls - that has been lost to the annals of history.
"Duty Calls: The Calm Before the Storm" sounds more like a massive case of the sh**s. 😂
I saw the parody mention, and half expected the ability to drop a deuce on your opponent... I left disappointed.
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Hahaha i actually just dropped a review of this game on my channel! I hit all the story beats for anybody too lazy to install it and play through it
https://www.youtube.com/wat...
Bulletstorm will soon receive a VR remake, but is it worth revisiting? Take a look back at the original 2011 release.
Absolutely. I remember when the game came out on ps360, I thought: "wow, another shooter" and in the 7th gen that wasn't an unfair reaction.
But when the game was re-release on ps4 I took my time an played it (it was on playstation plus at the time) because, ironically, I missed a shooter in that console. And boy, what a fun game! They made a game to be played and not to be watched. It was a fresh air in the genre that deserved better.
So yes. Maybe it find its audience this time.
It's an awesome game. The only exception (for my taste) is the script writing, which is OTT, but I guess that's what they were going for. It does at least match the OTT action and gore. I thought it was great overall and actually being in this game is going to be bonkers!
Yeah, I agree that storywise it's not an Oscar nominee, but it's like a porn movie in game format.
Agree with the over the top script, and felt at the time that was the only thing that people were hyped about, the language and not game play.
But in vr this game is going to be great. It has everything that would make a great vr game. Lots of bombastic action, gunplay, blood, and that leash.
Looking at the gameplay now it seems that the game was ahead of it’s time and was perfect for vr before vr wasn’t even off the ground.
I got it on PS3 at launch and am still waiting for the long rumored sequel to finally be announced. Currently have it on Switch and wish a physical version of that would be released. Absolutely love it.
I actually feel like this game gets revived all the time, not that I hate the game, I actually quite like it, it's just constantly available, unfortunately I'm not a fan of VR so I'll be skipping this version.
GF365: "Here are eight games that need sequels. These games are ones that players would love to experience another time, bigger and better."
Bloodborne is a game I still restart and play every few months. I would welcome just a re release in 60fps with a visual upgrade. It's a perfect game. If I was king for a day I would include the randomizer mods because then it would be a kind of rogue like and I could play it forever.
I think they were right having no versus MP, though, as it wouldn't have worked at all. Actual people as oppo wouldn't allow for the games defining skillkills anything like the sloppy, dim AI in the game would they?
In fact, that's possibly the reason I find the game so dull-well, after ten minutes or so anyway! For me the premise of the game falls down because you have to have such crappy opponents to allow you to take the piss so easily and it kind of removes all the risk and, to me, most of the thrill. I guess if you were really competitive with a co-op partner(seeing who could rack up the biggest scores etc) you could have an old time almost like passing the pad kind of experience online which would be cool but to rely on that to save a game is a bit much.
As it is, though, I think your 7/10 is possibly more than I'd have given them myself-I just can' see the value in this unless you like VERY little challenge and love just messing about over actual focussed gameplay with proper objectives. Sure, it's cool they tried to lift the current FPS above the pseudo military ones we get so often but the dick jokes wear thin almost as quickly as the paper thin premise of "killing with skill" did for me. Killing with skill is one thing but this was more like shooting fish in a barrel while learning some basic gymnastics-maybe a forward roll between dead Carp.
All it REALLY did for me was show me how good Painkiller actually was and, if I want a game more about scores than survival I'd pick Vanquish over this one EVERY single time-even for comparing what my mates have done. It was just a VERY one note game, no plan B and the variety HAD to come in the kills themselves but when the things you shoot just aren't threatening enough I struggled to feel I could be arsed that much. Great for ten minutes but pain in hour long doses for this jaded little gamer.
All I REALLY hope is that anyone who bought the 360 version really enjoys that Gears3 beta as it's about the only value I can truly find across all three versions! 5/10 for me and a big let down after hoping for something new and exciting.