Bulletstorm

Ever since I got this old rig bought from a colleague, it has been a never-ending battle between me and the hard drive for space. It didn't help that my first month I consumed 500 GB of bandwidth(a true pirate, ladies and gents) and my hard drive space is only 500 gigabytes. When I went off the grid, one of the things I did was try and get back more space by perusing some of the stuff I have. With that, I set off to HLTB and checked out which of the games have that good game size to hours beaten ratio, and lo and behold, Bulletstorm only takes... ah, I forgot, this should be a coherent narrative but my memory fails me. Let's say it was somewhere between 3(doubtful) to 7(probably) hours.

So I installed it, and my first impressions was it was cheesy. On the onset though, it looked pretty good, and I was proven right as the game moved along. The flashback section where you were walking on the walls of the building in defiance of gravity was awesome, I recalled right there and then that I've played this game before in a gaming cafe, but as with almost all the games I've played on gaming cafes, that session was just an hour and it wasn't enough to leave a lasting impression to me.

Here we are at the present again, and we just crash landed on a beautiful resort planet with a resentful shipmate who just turned cyborg. Oh hey, what's this? A leash? What could it be for? Oh hey I can grab people, the time suddenly slows, what do I do the enemy is getting thrown towards me, *presses E*, my mighty character kicks the enemy and off he turns into a bloody mess as he gets impaled into spikes as I laugh maniacally. I fell in love right there.

Cinematic games always are a rarity on the videogames realm, don't let anyone tell you any different, but this one definitely fits the bill. I think that sentence was poorly constructed, but I digress. This game is full of spectacular set-pieces that literally made my jaw drop. It makes do with a little cast, and while it's all predictable, it doesn't make it any less enjoyable. I still remember every single one of the people that made the journey with me.

The game shines with its unique FPS system which utilizes points for stylish kills(if you're not a videogamer you'll probably think I'm sick in the head right now) which in turn gets you more upgrades for your weapons. Honestly, you'll end up just sticking with a set of weapons because the game is not that tough, but the weapons in and of themselves present the game as a puzzle as some enemies require a special kind of dispatching. By the end, I was able to max everything out.

Oh yeah, I've forgotten to mention that the weapons are fun to use. You can guide a sniper bullet and it feels really cool to see it all play out in slow motion as the enemy scrambles to evade it. The other weapons are fun to use too but my memory is hazy. I remember though that every weapon has a secondary fire, said sniper can be detonated at will if it fails to find its target.

This game is really gory too, but cartoony at that. Nothing that will make you puke, but still the violence is over-the-top it adds to the whole experience. What is the whole experience? It's only one of the most entertaining single player FPS campaign in the history of videogames, full of fun, wit, heart, gore, guns, excitement, and Godzilla. So all in all, bloody fantastic.