Bulletstorm: We Find Your Lack of Faith Disturbing | VGW

Brian Shea of VGW writes: With all of the hype surrounding this title, why has EA shown signs that it has little faith in the quality and performance of Bulletstorm?

[gravemaker]

this game looks bad and boring

[killyourfm]

I think any sane person can see that it looks vibrant and colorful and has the potential to be quite fun.

[gravemaker]

i played the full game, i know better

[deafwing]

i'll give it a chance; friends are picking it up so I'll see what's good and if it's worth my 60$ ..oh wait I'm getting killzone :P

[LightofDarkness]

Oh really?

"this game looks bad and boring"

That suggest quite the contrary, that you haven't played it at all and are judging your opinion of the game on hitherto released previews , screens and gameplay vids. Nice try though.

[gamingdroid]

I played the game as well and I know it is a fantastic game of what I saw.

I had a blast and it is kind of the Mario Kart of FPS right now. I don't understand the sudden hate for this game though?

Usually people welcome new IP, but now they are complaining about that as well. Wonder what they are going to play?

[LightofDarkness]

@ Gamingdroid

I know, I played the demo and I know myself that this game is going to be a lot of fun. I'm going to buy this AND Killzone 3, even though I wasn't too fond of the KZ3 Beta.

[spunnups]

You played it yet you said it LOOKS bad and boring?!

[Biggest]

The demo is graphically "bad" if that is what he meant. I couldn't believe how much they touched up the US TV spot that is currently running. Some people are going to be like "Did I buy the wrong Bulletstorm?"

[Inside_out]

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I hate to agree with Biggest on anything, but I was shocked at how average looking the game was. I think the footage that has been shown may be the Pc version. I really hope it's a demo thing.

The article is full of half truths and contradictions.Bulletstorm must be bad and that's why they are including the Gears 3 beta just like Crackdown with the Halo 3 beta...except Crackdown is actually a great game. Then Bulletstorm is not going to sell well and thats why Amazon has added a $20 credit...except Killzone 3 has a $20 credit as well...is KZ 3 in need of help??? Doesn't KZ 3 have the so-com beta included with it as well...lol...does Sony think KZ 3 needs that beta to sell more???...O_o...what was the point of this article anyways...oh yeah, he's TRYING to hate on Bulletstorm...lol.

BTW...this game needed, at the very least a death match, team death match and capture the flag on line versus multi-player. People can fly doesn't need to add the leash as I understand it would be difficult to build multi-player around it. I'm sure EA would not want Bulletstorm multi-player as it would interfere with their very expensive Crysis 2 deal...notice the hype train for Bulletstorm stopped about 2 weeks ago. The whole Fox thing is NOT helping as well. Epic should of stayed with M$ as the pub...just saying.

[BShea]

@rage

I recommend you take another look at the article. I did no hating whatsoever. I'm excited for this game myself, but I found myself questioning their marketing campaign.

People Can Fly's Creative Director even personally reached out to me and said he found the article interesting, but recommended to everyone to read the entire thing before you make judgment.

[lil Titan]

we need more coverage over a game like Brink, a game that actually looks promising or RAGE, Bioshock 3, Homefront, interstellar marines or dead island. any of these would be better that hearing about this game

[gravemaker]

Design is pretty good, but graphics are awfully bad. Like gears 1 or worse. Gameplay gets boring and repetitious half-way across game. Multiplayer is 1 mode only. After playing KZ3 this game is past-gen.

[lil Titan]

whatever helps you sleep at night facts are facts

[Flashwave_UK]

genius this game doesnt deserve much hype its an xbox port (again) games like brink are going to revolutionise the fps genre

[gorebago]

Grave, thats what I feared, that it will get boring and repeptive fast after playing the demo. It felt like serious sam, idk I could be wrong.

[VINNIEPAZ]

Gamers are such jagged asshole these days.

[UnwanteDreamz]

I would have gone with "jaded assholes", but hey I agree

[Perjoss]

"this game looks bad and boring"

does your comment have anything to do with the fact that Bulletstorm is being released on the same day as Killzone 3?

just asking.

[Pillage05]

I wouldn't say bad and boring...but I gotta be honest, I was more excited for this game before I played the demo. Just wasn't my thing I guess. I'll still likely pick it up down the road just 'cause it's different. Kinda like a single player version of unreal tournament on crack.

[Kalowest]

"Both Crackdown and Bulletstorm were new IP’s from a development team known for another franchise. Crackdown, which was by the famous Halo developers, Bungie, included a beta to Halo 3, one of the most anticipated titles of 2007."

Bungie didn't make CrackDown, Realtime Worlds did. This shows how much the writer knows.

[killyourfm]

The offending author has been slapped and forced to play Two Worlds for the remainder of the month. (Writers make mistakes and the Bungie tie-in probably led to that error.)

[Kalowest]

"Writers make mistakes and the Bungie tie-in probably led to that error"

True, after i finished reading it all, i saw that he did his research, and he missed that one part.

[Biggest]

He is kinda correct though. Crackdown wasn't physically MADE by Bungie, but Bungie's game gave Crackdown life.

[BShea]

Minor flub on my part. I will accept my punishment of Two Worlds.

[kasasensei]

Way too much hype for this game.

[Shinuz]

i completely agree with you on that

[PrimordialSoupBase]

The message hasn't been "this game is good because" it's been "all other games are shit compared to us". If anything's put me off the game it's that they think their arrogance comes across as funny or cool.

[DragonWarrior]

Yeah, they act like we need this game. Dude, Killzone destroys this game in almost every way. If anything, every shooter i played since the KZ3 beta has felt the same way. This game isn't even that good!

[NYC_Gamer]

many 360 owners will buy this game because of the beta

[Kon]

Well, i'm still getting it, no matter what people say.

[offdawall]

what hype is surrounding this game o_0 ?

[M3talSnak3]

i got bord of the demo... sorry cliffy b

[AllroundGamer]

played it for 2 hours now and i'm positively surprised, the main hero has some good catch phrases, they were definitely inspired by Duke Nukem a lot :) and btw. i didn't liked the demo much, but i like the full game, probably because the demo was so chaotic, the weapons unlocked etc. and now i have to upgrade all the things from the beginning.

[helrazor343]

Well considering I just picked up LBP2, and MvC3 (and intend to pick up KZ3), there just isn't room for Bulletstorm. Plus, I didn't care much for the demo, and since this is supposed to be a lighthearted, not to be taken seriously, return to fun type of game, I still give Borderlands some playtime, and that scratches that itch just fine, just sayin'.

[hamsterfist]

Not a huge fan of the demo and I am not picking this game up. However I still hope it does well, in fact I hope any game that is half way good does decent enough to warrant more risks on new IPs. I am growing tired of all the vitriol in the gaming community. Come on people we can't hate on everything and raise our pitchforks over every little detail.

And I swear to god if I see one more 'This game sucks, because..' article or 'Top Ten whatever' on N4G I am gonna lose my sh!t

[Shinuz]

no but seriously this game does suck, well at least the demo did ;)

[hamsterfist]

I find it hard to disagree with you Shinuz. The demo talked me right out of buying this. Just not my cup of tea I guess.

[kevnb]

The game is terrible.

[dagamdagee]

If given some time, this game could show promise. I like the implementation of the scoring system and the leader boards. The demo makes the game seem a little repetitive, but it's hard to tell for sure. I had a lot of fun with what little was given. I can usually tell a game will be fun when I run through the demo multiple times, but that's just my own litmus test.

[Masterchef2007]

Its going to be pretty bad. I am very disappointed with People Can Fly

[BShea]

Kind of funny how everyone was so quick to say this game is terrible, yet it's getting amazing reviews.