Yldr
Educated
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- Jun 20, 2020
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- 48
I just finished Bulletstorm Full Clip Edition and was thoroughly underwhelmed. The game is so stale compared to its smug trailers, the Duke Nukem DLC was the only reason I bothered pushing through to the end, there are some genuinely good moments though the post-credits scene is a missed opportunity to close on a Duke one-liner.
The irony is that once you have made peace with the fact that it's not a mechanics-oriented shooter, you have most of the midgame where it's fairly adequate as a story shooter, i.e. follow friendly NPCs through over-the-top setpieces. Like Bad Company 2, due to the marketing you would be forgiven for thinking it's a humor game, but in reality it's pretty "serious" and grounded.
Still, enemies can eat way too much lead, the story is nothing special, the gunplay is basically Dark Messiah with guns (enemies take forever to die so kick enemies into 1-hit-kill environmental hazards over and over), and in general I felt like I was playing a poor man's Inversion.
If you need your Duke Nukem fix / 10.
The irony is that once you have made peace with the fact that it's not a mechanics-oriented shooter, you have most of the midgame where it's fairly adequate as a story shooter, i.e. follow friendly NPCs through over-the-top setpieces. Like Bad Company 2, due to the marketing you would be forgiven for thinking it's a humor game, but in reality it's pretty "serious" and grounded.
Still, enemies can eat way too much lead, the story is nothing special, the gunplay is basically Dark Messiah with guns (enemies take forever to die so kick enemies into 1-hit-kill environmental hazards over and over), and in general I felt like I was playing a poor man's Inversion.
If you need your Duke Nukem fix / 10.