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From the archives: This article originally ran in PC Gamer #330 (UK, May 2019). <\/strong><\/em>You should still play Bullestorm, which is frequently 90% off <\/em>on Steam<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Bulletstorm is the stupidest game ever made.<\/p>\n

Everything about this game is stupid. Your character is stupid. Your allies are stupid. Your enemies are very stupid. The weapons are daft. The skillshot system is absurd. The script almost prides itself on how much rank idiocy it can cram into every line. Even the setting is stupid, a holiday resort built using prison labour on an alien planet so hostile that it rains gamma radiation.<\/p>\n

You\u2019d be forgiven for thinking that Bulletstorm was developed by semi-concussed jocks during a two-year long frat party. It makes Gears of War look sensible, an impression that is probably the main reason why it sold a pitiful number of copies when it originally released in 2011. The game has such a brash and puerile exterior that it put a lot of people off playing.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s such a shame, because beneath the fathom-thick veneer of dumbness is one of the cleverest shooters designed this side of the millennium. Every stupid thing that Bulletstorm does has been designed with a huge amount of thought. <\/p>\n

Take the aforementioned setting. Yes, building a luxury vacation town with a bunch of dangerous criminals on a highly irradiated planet is a terrible idea, but the result is a planet populated by hundreds of mutated psychopaths just desperate to greet your bullets with their faces. <\/p>\n

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That\u2019s an epic flail. <\/span>(Image credit: People Can Fly)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

You play Grayson Hunt, a mercenary who formerly worked as an assassin for prize interstellar scumbag General Sarrano. When Hunt realised Sarrano had been sending him to murder innocent people, he went rogue and set his sights on Sarrano himself. Bulletstorm begins as Hunt encounters Sarrano\u2019s flagship, the Ulysses, in orbit around Planet Butlins. With his four-man crew, Hunt embarks upon a frontal assault that would form the climax of any other shooter, ending with Hunt using his own ship as a missile to punch a hole through the Ulysses, sending both vessels crashing down to the planet\u2019s surface.<\/p>\n

Stupid is as stupid does<\/h2>\n

One thing I\u2019ve always admired about Bulletstorm is its sheer breakneck pace. The prologue alone gets through about four missions\u2019 worth of content, including a flashback sequence where you use gravity boots to walk down the side of a skyscraper. By the time the game commences proper, two of Grayson\u2019s crew are dead, while the third\u2014Ishi\u2014has been turned into a cyborg in an effort to save his life.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s even more remarkable is that Bulletstorm barely breaks its stride throughout its entire six to eight hour length. The first chapter alone has about three gargantuan set-pieces, including a level where you\u2019re chased by a giant, motorised wheel, and another where you need to escape the nest of a Godzilla-like dinosaur. There\u2019s a sequence where you control a robot-dinosaur and a battle across a giant dam which, naturally, bursts in the process.<\/p>\n

Bulletstorm\u2019s sense of scale and spectacle puts most other shooters to shame, and it\u2019s not even the point of the game. It\u2019s merely seasoning sprinkled into the casserole of shooting angry mutants in the most creative ways possible.<\/p>\n

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\"Bulletstorm,<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>

Hunt is scum and everyone knows it, not least himself. <\/span>(Image credit: People Can Fly)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Yes, the skillshot systems was and remains Bulletstorm\u2019s most unique feature. While you\u2019re free to kill enemies however you like, killing them in specific ways awards you with varying numbers of points. This could be by combining a kick to the face with a spray from your assault rifle to perform a \u201cBullet Kick\u201d or impaling an enemy upon some metal railings to pull off a \u201cVoodoo Doll\u201d.<\/p>\n

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\"Bulletstorm,<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>

I call this look \u201cGodzilla\u2019s dentist\u201d <\/span>(Image credit: People Can Fly)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

These points can be used to buy ammo and unlock new weapons, which, alongside the ever-shifting environment, can be used to conjure even more creative kills. Like People Can Fly\u2019s earlier game Painkiller, Bulletstorm\u2019s weapons are delightfully eclectic. Highlights include the Flail Gun, which shoots twin explosives connected by a chain that coils around enemies before exploding, and the Driller, a ludicrous weapon that fires gigantic drill-bits at colossal speeds, impaling enemies onto any surface and spinning them around like a meaty windmill. Combine these bizarre guns with the skillshot system, and you\u2019ve got one of the most gleefully entertaining shooters ever made. Impaling multiple enemies on one drillbit for the \u201cShishkebab\u201d bonus is almost worryingly satisfying, as is kicking a flail-wrapped enemy into a man- eating plant and blowing both up in a shower of blood and chlorophyll. <\/p>\n

Like everything else about Bulletstorm, it\u2019s incredibly crass and incredibly silly, but it\u2019s also a huge amount of fun. The only downside to the skillshot system is that it rewards you for set tricks, which limits the creative potential of the system (there\u2019s no difference between kicking or sliding an enemy into spikes, for example).<\/p>\n

Swearing up a storm<\/h2>\n

What\u2019s interesting about Bulletstorm is that it inverts the typical way modern shooters present themselves. Most shooters try to justify their violence with a grand narrative about war and sacrifice and why all that killing is necessary and important. Bulletstorm, on the other hand, doubles down on its own gratuitousness. The script is unbelievably filthy, a cascade of swearing and toilet humour that almost completes the circle and becomes poetic. <\/p>\n

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This Reinstall was originally published in PC Gamer #330 (UK, May 2019)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

You can still subscribe to PC Gamer<\/a> to get new issues of the magazine (in print!) every month.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Yet despite its crass front, Bulletstorm demonstrates more self-awareness than the majority of its peers. The game is clear on the fact that you\u2019re not playing as a hero. <\/p>\n

Hunt is a bad leader and a worse friend, his own arrogance and desire for revenge having cost him everything except for his life by the end of the game\u2019s prologue. Two of his squadmates are dead, while Ish\u2019s RoboCop-style makeover has left him in constant pain, fighting the AI system keeping him alive and taking over control of his own body.<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t subtext either, its frequently pointed out by other characters in the game. Trishka, the leader of Sarrano\u2019s special forces group, is probably the most scathing of Hunt\u2019s critics but Grayson himself is painfully aware of his own failings. Much of his swaggering smack-talk basically amounts to overcompensation. Beneath that he\u2019s desperate to save his last living friend, and in doing so harvest a grain of redemption from the mountain of shit he\u2019s piled up. This is partly why the addition of Duke Nukem as a playable character in 2017\u2019s Full Clip edition rang so hollow. Bulletstorm is ultimately only pretending to be a dumb shooter, whereas there is no pretending with Duke Nukem. <\/p>\n

Indeed, to think of Bulletstorm as an \u201cold-school\u201d FPS is a mistake. It\u2019s a thoroughly modern shooter, from the regenerating health to the aiming-down-the-sights to the fact that its characters actually have some layers. Most of the time this works, but there are a few areas where it just doesn\u2019t come together. <\/p>\n

No jumping allowed<\/h2>\n
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\"Bulletstorm,<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>

You will believe a man can fly. <\/span>(Image credit: People Can Fly)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Most significantly, you can\u2019t jump. You can only mantle over certain obstacles. It\u2019s an odd omission in a game that is essentially about performing stunts with guns, and proves somewhat limiting in play. Moreover, while the environment design of Bulletstorm is incredible \u2013 particularly its crumbling sci-fi cityscapes \u2013 the actual level design is comparatively simplistic, lots of large, straight corridors cleverly decorated to make them feel more complex. <\/p>\n

Ultimately though, this is the only area where Bulletstorm is simpler than it appears. Beneath all the blood and cursing and toilet humour is a brilliantly imaginative shooter with a unique sci-fi setting and enough action to fill a game twice its length. Bulletstorm may be the stupidest game ever made, but boy is it clever in how it goes about that.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n

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From the archives: This article originally ran in PC Gamer #330 (UK, May 2019). You should still play Bullestorm, which is frequently 90% off on Steam. Bulletstorm is the stupidest game ever made. Everything about this game is stupid. Your character is stupid. Your allies are stupid. Your enemies are very stupid. The weapons are daft. The skillshot system is absurd. The script almost prides itself on how much rank idiocy it can cram into every line. Even the setting is stupid, a holiday resort built using prison labour on an alien planet so hostile that it rains gamma radiation. You\u2019d be forgiven for thinking that Bulletstorm was developed by semi-concussed jocks during a two-year long frat party. It makes Gears of War look sensible,…<\/p>\n

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