Bulletstorm: Preview

Announcement Bulletstorm for fans of action games – one continuous series of pleasant buns and cookies. Now you will understand what we mean. Responsible for development People Can Fly And Epic Games – one of the best shooter makers of our time. The Gears of War, Unreal Tournament and Painkiller brands won’t let us lie. Plus, as you have already noticed, we are now dealing not with another sequel to the prequel of the spin-off of the series, but with a completely new title that has not appeared anywhere in our game database before. And also Bulletstorm with the carefreeness of a fifth-grader drawing his priceless doodles on his desk, he will add notes of irony and humor to the “shooter” genre, which has become over-serious and stern over the past few years (like the face of a Vedeveshnik on August 2 on Poklonnaya Gora at the moment of tearing his vest) notes of irony and humor in a close symbiosis with fooling around.

Time to rest

Bulletstorm – this is also a painful nostalgia for those times when the main hero of an action movie could not be a faceless martinet in uber armor and under the cover of a whole pack of anti-aircraft guns, but a charismatic lone hero, distributing kicks in the butt to everyone he meets, who can, if necessary, sing into a microphone, seduce a beauty, and smoke a cigar. We’re talking about Duke Nukem, yeah. Those of our readers who are already well into their twenties should remember what a release the game about a pumped-up, charismatic blond was after the claustrophobic corridor adventures in Quake.

The unexpected transition effect also works in the case of Bulletstorm. Let’s start with the fact that this is an incredibly bright shooter with the richest colors, the selection of which, apparently, was done by fierce sanguine optimists. However, we would not say that the arrogant madness of the Serious Sam level or the caramelism from Fable prevails here. If we now try to describe the visual style, we’ll get something like this: Rage and Gears of War meet Borderlands and the same Serious Sam. Unity of opposites, whatever one may say.

From the first couple Bulletstorm got pumped up (sometimes it seems like air) soldiers for beating, increased blood content for every pixel of the screen, and also beautifully modeled guns – but more about them later. From the cool Sam, of course, there was a little bit of elaboration of the visual style and art direction. Well, here is the product of the team’s labors Randy Pitchford — several borrowings from this game will be difficult not to notice. We will now tell you about them in more detail.

Boevka Bulletstorm shares some similarities with www.betirocasino.co.uk Borderlands. The most important similarity lies in copying the reward system for every successfully performed and spectacular trick. Only now People Can Fly And Epic Games decided to set a minimum bar, the achievement of which will lead to the appearance of an encouraging inscription, even lower. Lower than it turned out even for Gearbox Software. The game will comment and give out points for almost every swing of your butt, and for more thoughtful and sophisticated actions it will reward you royally.

And here it is worth recalling once again that in “Bullet Storm” visual humor (mostly black) and irony are not given the last place. For what vulgar fantasies of an unrealized metrosexual sadist will the combat system pat him on the head? Bulletstorm – we’re scared to even imagine now. And a little fun too.

In addition to the gentle system of rewards for your atrocities, destructibility will work hard for entertainment. No, it will not be possible to bomb the first supermarket you come across to the ground by laying out concrete, bricks and foam into separate piles. But you’ll definitely be able to play “break three dozen wooden boxes and barrels into splinters and pieces”.

It will be important at some point to understand that selective destructibility in Bulletstorm given for a reason. Its main function is to provide the opportunity to stage separately for each idiot from the crowd a spectacular death, the staging of which would be envied John Woo And Quentin Tarantino taken together. The degree of picturesqueness will, of course, be determined by the built-in distributor of cool signatures in the style of Borderlands. That is, it’s one thing to simply pierce a bad guy’s knee with a burst from a machine gun and admire for a long, long time how he suffers in his death convulsions (necessarily funny staged, since Bulletstorm, let us remind you, with humor), and it’s quite another thing to immobilize him by shooting off his limbs, push him to the edge of the abyss and send him with a discharge from a grav gun to the thickets of giant cacti located far below.

Toys for real men

Increased attention in the game is paid to weapons – as if in revenge Pitchford with his famous profanation “half a million guns – and very few of their various components,” people from Epic Games tinker with each barrel exactly as much time as is usually required in such situations. Weapons in Bulletstorm allows you to accurately identify the developers – only real fans and admirers of action films can do this.

We were most impressed by the so-called Glowing Whip – a fairly versatile contraption that we suspect will help you get through the entire game without any problems. You can really treat it like a whip: beat with a loud whistle of cutting air on the backs of those around you, keeping them at a safe distance.

If someone thinks that beating with a whip is inhumane, cruel and too sadistic, then Whip can also offer an alternative grav gun mode. Imagine Gordon Freeman’s favorite device, whose electromagnetic waves are illuminated during operation.

In terms of coolness and trouble-free operation, the Flail Gun (also a non-standard grenade launcher) is in no way inferior to a gravitational gun. You will agree with us that it is one thing to simply throw bombs at the enemy’s feet, as in the ancient Quake 3 Arena, and quite another to send after the first lucky person a bunch of two grenades (they are naturally connected to each other by a chain), wait until they grab him no worse than the Marlboro cowboy’s lasso, and press one button on the remote trigger. It will be beautiful, you understand. Now imagine how spectacular it will look in the case described just above with a loser flying off a cliff. After landing on cacti, it can also be blown up! You write it down, write it down – free advice from our dear Stopgame is not lying around.

Manage in Bulletstorm will be a rather talkative captain of, imagine, a spaceship and a member of a group of mercenaries called Dead Echo. The troublemaker’s name is Grayson Hunt. During one of the journeys across the expanses of the universe, the unexpected happened – the ship received severe damage during the battle and was forced to land on an unfamiliar planet. During an emergency landing, the entire crew miraculously disappeared somewhere – blown away by the wind or burned in the upper atmosphere. The only partner left is a cyborg girl named Ishi Sato.

We mentioned Duke Nukem at the beginning for many reasons. Like the legendary blond, Grayson Hunt is not averse to backing up his every action with a powerful word, a joke or a stupid question to his partner – to which he will immediately receive a biting answer. And our colleague of Shepard and Spock knows how to kick absolutely anyone in the ass. And sing into the microphone. Definitely.

The creators of Painkiller and Gears of War are busy producing a humorous, colorful and bloody shooter with a main character who is incredibly similar to Duke Nukem. Against the backdrop of a whole string of very cool and serious action films about very cool and serious Russians as the main enemies Bulletstorm looks like a bucket of popsicles next to a coffee machine in forty-degree heat. We are already quite tired and want something very sweet and light.