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Bulletstorm First Depressions, Intentional Overkill

Via GameGuideDog: Interesting title Bulletstorm is, no question. In a FPS market dominated by the Call of Duty franchise, one would have to assume that the detailed realism that saturates the FPS genre has become a necessary staple in producing a new FPS for sale in today’s market, but that’s not the direction EA/Epic Games went with Bulletstorm...

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Rageanitus5263d ago

Tried the Demo.... did not like it just seems like a bunch of ideas put together with no real sense of direction.

MarcusFenixITA5263d ago

that's true ... any good game needs to have soul.

BattleAxe5263d ago

I played the demo for about 2 minutes lastnight. This is nothing more than a budget title that should be relegated to the bargain bin.

psman0125263d ago

I dont see what so many people have against it... its a fun video game that doesnt take itself seriously... if every game was serious and perfectly polished, it wouldnt be as fun. Once in a while, you need a silly game. I personally enjoyed the demo alot, but it was WAY too short. The only thing I hate about it is the dialogue, which is ridiculously and overly vulgar.

Inside_out5263d ago

The demo is a tutorial on how the controls will work in the game when it releases.

It seems the whining is coming from an insecure bunch who have there favorite game releasing at the same time and are worried that it can't handle the competition...lol...Which is dumb of course because Bulletstorm is a completely different game that doesn't even have a Vs multi-player component...O_o.

No surprise... not every one thinks like a neanderthal like these kids. If they had there way no other games would or should exist except there game of choice.

Bulletstorm is being made by polish dev People can fly, who made the Painkiller games and ported Gears 1 onto PC. Epic has now bought them and I believe this will be there first console game. This will be a very important lesson for Epic and I hope they are paying attention. If the game doesn't sell well on PS3 they should stick to being exclusive to one platform where their hard core audience is located...that would be the 360 and the 20+ million that have bought their Gears games...LIVE AND LEARN EPIC.

Can't wait for that Gears 3 beta...wow..

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

palaeomerus5263d ago (Edited 5263d ago )

People Can Fly only did Painkiller and the add-on "Battle out of Hell. They also did a Painkiller port for the Xbox (original) called Painkiller: Hell Wars.

They did NOT do Painkiller: Overdose (meh), Dreamkiller (bleah), both by Mindware, or Painkiller: Resurrection (never played it) by Homegrown Games.

Painkiller was pretty damned good though.

It sort of mixed the gameplay feel of the original Quake with the imaginative weapons and morbid atmosphere of Blood, added some really huge levels,locked arena-areas where you face waves of enemies, and battles with huge bosses sort of like those in Serious Sam. THEN they added a weird juggle dead enemies with multiple shots for treasure mechanic on top of that.

The stake gun and freeze-ray/shotgun were both amazing as was the titular painkiller weapon. The rocket launcher/machine gun was pretty cool too!

So right now, I really trust People Can Fly to come up with fun impressive game under the influence of Epic. the demo makes me feel that they are on the right track in most respects.

Rageanitus5263d ago

The problem is it feels like it has the same taste as when I first played Serious Sam.... just a bunch of ideas put together.

Its just that it feels like a game that can get very old quickly.

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DanteKnightsTemplar5263d ago

gotta agree. honestly has no direction

klapkip5263d ago

Here the same. What a terrible demo Bulletstorm. Downloaded, played it on PS3 and deleted after that. No fun at all.

palaeomerus5263d ago (Edited 5263d ago )

Demo was fun. Whining about competition from Resistance 3 (really? 2 was a disappointment and 3 is not coming out any time soon! It's supposed to be out in early september according to Amazon! ) and Killzone 3 (probably going to be good but not really similar to Bulletstorm) won't change that.

This was a stupid, useless, myopic impression of a mechanic oriented demo and is not worth reading. The dumb bleating about a lack of direction in the comments above, is absolutely hilarious.

The direction(hook, focus) for the game couldn't be more clear! "Kill with skill". Duh. How can anyone not pick up on the direction? Epic smacks you right in the face with it!

Dysmorphic5263d ago

Exactly; it seems people are complaining without any real idea of what they're complaining about. The first FPS in awhile to try something different and it seems everyone's going to ignore it. That's a damn shame.

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Duty Calls - Epic Games' Forgotten Call of Duty Parody

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.

closed_account742d ago

"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.

closed_account740d ago

Never too much Taco Tuesday!! Now if only we could just achieve eternal Taco Tuesdays without the inevitable Wipe-It Wednesdays!!! 😂😂

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Amplitude741d ago (Edited 740d ago )

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...

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Bulletstorm - A Cult Classic Worthy of Revival?

Bulletstorm will soon receive a VR remake, but is it worth revisiting? Take a look back at the original 2011 release.

IMissJimRyan750d ago

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.

SullysCigar750d ago

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!

IMissJimRyan750d ago

Yeah, I agree that storywise it's not an Oscar nominee, but it's like a porn movie in game format.

Abnor_Mal749d ago (Edited 749d ago )

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.

Venoxn4g749d ago

I loved the game back in the day and will love in VR even more!

Yui_Suzumiya749d ago (Edited 749d ago )

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.

FinalFantasyFanatic749d ago

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.

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8 Games that need sequels

GF365: "Here are eight games that need sequels. These games are ones that players would love to experience another time, bigger and better."

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Leeroyw786d ago

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.

gleepot785d ago

Sure, ill take a sequel to all of these.