![]() ![]() Whether human gangs of cannibals, mutant tribes, or more horrifying wildlife, everything's a hazard. Stygia is full of colorful, vicious life that's taken over the remains of the pleasure capital of the Confederacy. Some of that grounding is provided by the moment-to-moment beauty of Stygia. Ironically, People Can Fly makes everything feel grounded. There's never a sense of disconnect between "the things what are big" and human-sized characters. Bulletstorm handles size and scale particularly effectively. Bulletstorm is also full of fantastic moments of spectacle in its well-paced story, from the collapse of entire sections of a city to more than one giant monster moment. In tandem with shooting that feels responsive and meaty, with powerful, interesting weapons, the combo system makes Bulletstorm's combat a success. Who'd have thought, particularly given the throwback nature of Bulletstorm's first person shooting? There's no cover, enemies aren't especially smart, and levels are a straight shot from A to B, but Bullestorm still impresses. The Leash AI takes all of Bulletstorm's unique and genre-defying mechanical elements and makes sense of them within its own particular reality. The idea of upgradeable weapons and skills isn't all that new or different, but Bulletstorm provides a welcome dose of functionality and suspension of disbelief to its combo system. By combining shots to specific appendages and/or bathing suit areas with standing and sliding kicks, the Leash, and various environmental hazards, you'll discover a variety of named kill combos that reward more points than standard shots. The Leash allows Grayson to snag enemies and fling them into the air in slow motion, and its AI has been designed to evaluate combat performance – it rewards balls-out combat bravado in the form of points that can be redeemed at Confederate resupply pods scattered around the planet. Soon enough, Grayson acquires a Leash, a Confederate energy weapon with an invasive artificial intelligence. It's up to him to get the survivors off the planet, and maybe find some of the revenge and redemption he so desperately wants in the process. When a random opportunity arises to strike directly against the heart of the Confederacy, Grayson sets his ship on a suicide run and maroons himself and his crew on the planet Stygia. Grayson has spent his post-Confederacy time harassing his former commander and keeping company with his also-outlawed squad, Dead Echo. Set in a space-faring future full of pirates and American Civil War cliches, Bulletstorm tells the story of Grayson Hunt, a former Confederate operative turned outlaw. Bulletstorm's premise is original enough. ![]()
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