Bulletstorm: The Best Shooter You’ve Never Played

BY BRENDEN SHEA: The first-person shooter has been a staple of the gamer diet since the early days of Doom and its Wolfenstein predecessors. Over the years, it has seen more than its fair share of excellent entries. From Quake, to Half-life, to Halo and beyond, shooters and their frenetic energy have kept people coming back for more. Now, shooters are more refined than ever before, but in recent years we’ve had some decidedly old-school bashers come along and revive the older style of games like Quake, not the least of which is the most recent Doom.

But there’s another game that had a similar style of frantic, knee-jerk shooter reaction, and that was Bulletstorm. Now, with the release of the Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition on PlayStation 4, it was time for me to go back and revisit this old, oft-forgotten classic. And boy, is it a classic.

[KingOfArcadia]

Ah, Bulletstorm. The only game I have ever heard the word 'cocksucker' in, which was during a cutscene in the first 30 minutes or so. The gameplay was pretty fun, but the dialogue must have been written by a bunch of pre-teens who think swearing like a sailor is 'hip' and 'edgy'.

[purple101]

For this reason I'm going to play it was free on PS Plus last month I have it in my download queue! (so I haven't missed it... Just not agreed to download it yet.. For space saving)

[Majin-vegeta]

Last month?Try nov 2018😂

[UltraNova]

So its like Duke Nukem? Count me in.

[SickSinceSix]

@UltraNova
There's an actual Duke Nukem dlc so you can play as him instead. Everyone else keeps the same dialogue but Duke has different lines than the original character.

I wonder if they'll ever do a full remake of Duke Nukem 3D or a soft reboot of the series like DOOM got, ignoring the original two Duke side scrollers.

[bigmalky]

You've never played a CoD, Operation Flashpoint, Suda51 or GTA game? From the Beyond Good and Evil 2 trailer, I think that will be full of similar insults too.

There's plenty of games with expletives such as that in them.

[spicelicka]

I think dicktits was in there as well loll

[purple101]

Majin - That's what I said *caugh*

[PhantomS42]

I played it when it originally released and it was garbage, played the remaster and it's still awful. So no.

[Ricegum]

Good on you bud. You sure showed them.

[cyber_daemonx]

It's actually a great game and underrated and made a nice change from all the brown military shooters from last gen.

[spicelicka]

I played it when it first came out and it was awesome!

[pyroxxx]

I think a lot of people played it,.. It was actually free with PS plus,.. Game is OK,.. some Serious Sam vibes,.. but nothing really special.

[LordoftheCritics]

Poetry right there

https://www.youtube.com/wat...

[AK91]

I disagree completely the game had cool mechanics but by the end they had become boring it was WAY too long for its own good and let’s not forget the awful writing that honestly made the game a drag to play through.

[bigmalky]

It was free with PS3's Plus service a long time ago. Pretty sure it's not as unplayed as you think.

[ShockUltraslash]

I played the game and loved it.
Now that Doom has repopularized the fast true action FPS, we might get an awesome sequel.

[PMind]

I cannot stand titles like this.

[Pyrofire95]

Correction, one of the best shooters I have played.

[madpuppy]

Bulletstorm was an epic game, I played it all the way through back on the PS3 and when they released a PS4 version I grabbed a copy when it got cheap, (60.00 for a remaster, what was Randy Pitchfork thinking) I think the Polish developer People Can Fly made this game and it was sold as a gearbox game. doesn't anybody remember the hilarious parody of the Halo 3 diorama commercial?
https://www.youtube.com/wat...

[Fist4achin]

I enjoyed Bulletstorm with it's crude humor and tight gameplay.

[Cajun Chicken]

Yes. Yes I certainly did. I love this game, played through it about 3 times now. Absolutely love the crass humour and skillshots and the oddly enough the campaign reminded me of that feel of exploration level by level like in the original Halo.

Still waiting for sequel now People Can Fly have the rights back.