Bulletstorm demo: Is it any good?

CVG: The feedback is so universally praiseworthy, the biggest complaint seems to be that the Bulletstorm demo is too short.

But forget the Twitterati - we want to know what YOU have to say, dear readers.

Is Bulletstorm all it's cracked up to be - or is the demo to juvenile for your tastes. More to the point, if you're a 360 owner, is it better than the Crysis 2 demo?

[Shmotz]

Great demo, even if it is short. Shoot an enemy in the nuts and then kick him for maximum lulz.

[Timesplitter14]

I had mixed feelings about this game

The good :
- Fun non-serious arcade shooter
- dialogue

The bad :
- controls
- god-awful Unreal Engine graphics. Epic seriously needs to move on and stop using this engine

[tmoss726]

If you made a ton of money on something, why would you move on? This is like telling Activision to move on from CoD.

[SupeerSteebbi]

A demo for real men.

[WildArmed]

Havn't downloaded it yet.. hmm I should put it to d/l when I get time.
I r interested in BS

edit:
Man the 4-player co-op looks fun! I wonder if it's open world like borderlands :D
The story looks shit, but that's never the point in FPS games lol

[SixZeroFour]

homefront's story seems promising

[tmoss726]

It's an FPS, not an RPG.

[WildArmed]

So your point is that an FPS game .. lets say Bioshock...
can't have a good story?

[tmoss726]

Yes but it doesn't necessarily have RPG elements like Final Fantasy or ME1. An RPG isn't a game with a great story, it's a game where you can level up a character. Like that's what the focus of the game is about.

[Raven_Nomad]

A M A Z I N G ! Note to all developers, you need something unique to bring to the genre. This is it! So much fun.

[dukenukemisyourgod]

painkiller is better atleast in painkiller u could jump.

this game feels too much like gears of war i swear even uses it's sound effects.

NO JUMP=NO BUY SHITTY GAME.

[Parapraxis]

You can't jump in Gears either...I'd hardly call Gears "shitty".

[Perjoss]

@ Parapraxis

lol dont even bother

[dirthurts]

I have never in my life saw any military video where anyone jumped....ever!
Why does everyone assume you have to be able to jump in shooters? It's not a platformer.
On a side note. The game is pretty fun. A nice breath of fresh air. The fact that it's on all the consoles, and PC is another plus.

[bobrea]

Implying that this game is supposed to be realistic?

[Tinasumsum]

Miss My Mall arcade days and this brings that feeling back with it's stylish over the top points system gameplay.

[Honky Kong]

i had more fun with this than i expected. played thru 4 times. wanna try co-op.
crysis was so so....

[HOSe]

example: great game with no jump - timesplitters 2.

doubt this game will be a fraction of what ts2 is/was

[Parapraxis]

I wasn't as blown away as many people it would seem. Plan on playing the demo a few more times though. I'll have to wait on more feedback and decide later whther it's a rental or a buy.
My list of games to be bought in 2011 is already huge.

I love the idea of a silly and funny shooter, but it may very likely be Duke Nukem Forever which gets my money.

[Baka-akaB]

I found it way better than the crysis demo .

I yawned through the pretty and solid but so-so mp of crysis . And had fun with bulletstorm so far .

However duke nukem isnt far away , so i think i'll skip BS for now

[GrumpyVeteran]

Terrible demo, coz it's only on the consoles.

Lacklustre to the extreme.

[tmoss726]

This proves that you haven't even played it. How can you judge that it's a terrible demo then....?

[ApexHell]

i personally didnt like it at all :/

[Skynetone]

if it wasnt for the s**t controls, i might have enjoyed that demo, with a name like bulletstorm, why do i have to reload every two secounds, not letting me walk across that obvious pipe, was a instant fail for this game, why bother having teammates when there this bad, a pet turtle would have had more effect on the battlefield, they might have tripped over him, are be distracted by his cuteness, overall i didnt feel badazz enough, some more death moves would have been nice, only having a kick is not enough,

[REDHULKSMASH]

no.

[Cajun Chicken]

This demo is f**king awesome and just what I needed and feel was required in the game industry. Bulletstorm, giving the game industry a kick up the ass.

Next Duke. Then Rage. Then we'll talk what a real FPS is.

[rbluetank]

i am downloading the demo on my ps3 right now. i keep hearing that bullstorm does not have versus mp... i hope this is not true. i will be passing on this game if this is so!!! why would a dev not make this game versus mp with all those fun ways to kill your friends or foe in a versus mp match!!!

[EvilNecessary]

I enjoyed the demo. But I did think that it was too short. I was hoping to play the demo they had at E3 last year. That was a longer and much better demo.

[Firstkn1ghT]

It's a fresh take on the FPS genre. Something that is desperately needed.

[PirateThom]

Meh, it's alright, but it's not as fun as I was expecting it to be. The idea seems better than the execution.

Maybe worth picking up when cheaper, based solely on the demo.

[bobrea]

I agree with you. I thought I would be really into this game based ont he previews I had been seeing, but once I played it, I was left with an extreme feeling of "meh."

[FFXI101]

That's what I'd do, too bad it release on the same day as KZ3.

[A LIVING LEGEND]

This is junk...obfuscated by a recognised name,Epic.
Stumble through the fog.

[bobrea]

Just played the demo. I used to be pumped for this game...until I played it. Now I have no plans of buying iot whatsoever. I mean, yea it was fun to kick a guy in the nuts and then shoot him and so on...but...it was just a boring game with nothing to really set it apart in my eyes.

[ElementX]

I wonder how Bulletstorm will sell compared to KZ3

[A LIVING LEGEND]

One can only wonder
In the meantime,one can only hope that the wondering subsides.

[Wardog1368]

Once again, we're reviewing demos now?

[rbluetank]

i had fun for awhile. i then started just shooting through the demo, i did not care about getting points for this or that! the demo just became an ordinary shooter covered in dirty words/blood. it is a okay demo. i will rent it. it is not a buy for me. the graphics and guns are cool. i would recommend people to try this game out.

[NexGen76]

I liked the demo but for right now its a rental at best for me......

[mastiffchild]

It's just a demo but if the gamew itsaelf offers so little in the way of enemy AI then all the skill kills in the world won't make it a great game. It's kind of like shooting fish in a barrel-but doing it in a flash,. OTT manner while your mates who are meant to be helping sit on their arses and get pissed.

Killing NPC enemies this dim just isn't much fun and adding the challenge vika HOW you kill them is a cute idea but ultimately one that stalls after five minutes. Also the puerile nonsense of the voicing makes it much more annoying than it should be. A shame as there's a good
idea in here but for a scores based shooter this isn't NEAR Vanquish and Miklami's slick, speedy shootathon.

IDK, they just made it go too far in a gimmicky direction and stopped the core mechanic from shining by pitting as against halfwits and WITH no brain mouth pieces. I hoped it would be better than Painkiller but, sadly,has much less class even even less wit. A shame for a game trying to buck the norm. Hope the full game is better but got the feeling more would be worse to be frank.

[Legionaire2005]

Fact!!! Gears of War and Resistance series release around the same time as each other!!! I guess both game studio has been spying on each other lol!!! Its really true. Gears of War and resistance part 1 release 2006, Gears and Resistance part 2 release 2008, and now Gears and Resistance part 3 is coming out this fall most likely in September for both. Both storylines are very similar with the doomsday for mankind concept where in part 3 both have the alien side at a huge advantage. Resistance and Gears are brothers lol!!! By the way Bulletstorm was a short but good demo.