You play as Grayson Hunt, the leader of Dead Echo, a collective ragtag of ragamuffins stranded on the planet Stygia. It’s a spectacular job well done, and runs as smooth as Duke’s one-liners.Īre you new to Bulletstorm? Well, allow me to introduce you to its ridiculous world. Of course in handheld the game drops to 720p but doesn’t really lose anything thanks to the screen dimensions. Fair to say one of the best looking games on the Switch so far for my eyes. When docked the game runs at a solid 1080p and looks fantastic. You can play through the entire campaign as Duke and it’s a glorious addition which makes the barbaric world mechanics all the more absurd. On offer is the 2017 Remastered version which features the visual overhaul along with the Duke Nukem campaign mode (you may have guessed from the title) which drops everyone’s favourite American ass-kicker into the mad world of Bulletstorm with a fully re-written script to include his rather cringe-inducing but ultimately nostalgia-baiting dialogue. It’s so satisfying.Īnd thank goodness, because this Switch port is nothing short of a miracle worker. Eight years later, Bulletstorm just doesn’t get old. It’s about using the environment to your advantage, leashing your enemy and then drop kicking a son of a bitch into an electrical fence. There’s very little fun to be had by simply just pointing and shooting, Bulletstorm isn’t about that life. The game simply wants you to mess with the formula and utterly decimate every single enemy in the most original ways possible. You can even combo a variety of these options for maximum pointage. From throwing/kicking them into spiked walls and cactuses to slicing them in half, leashing them straight to you so you can blast a hundred bullets into their skulls and watch it explode and kicking them off bridges and cliffs and watching them fall to the ground into a million pieces. One hundred and thirty-one ways, in fact and you’ll get more points the more original you can make your murdering. So People Can Fly turned the genre on its head and decreed the best way to have fun again in FPS games is to offer up as many different ways you can kill a motherfucker as you can possibly imagine. It’s not surprising, given how stale the FPS genre became in the previous generation. Bulletstorm holds a special place in my heart, alongside the shockingly underrated Neverdead as games that went to the effort of actually taking some risks. It was certainly a surprise in the Finger Guns HQ when it was announced to be remastered for today’s systems and yet to this day there’s still nothing quite like it, even if Rage 2 tried and failed to take its crown. Originally released in early 2011 for Xbox 360, PS3 and PC, People Can Fly’s off-the-wall shooter gained a rather cult audience thanks to its superbly archaic mechanics and ridiculous sense of humour. Then out of nowhere you get a glorious reminder that Bulletstorm exists, and this excellent port is just the competition it needed.īulletstorm is a game that’s been around for a long time now. Whilst one could argue that whilst Doom 2016 certainly is the King of that particular genre, its lack of competition from the likes of the rather uninspiring Wolfenstein ports perhap made it look all the better. It feels like it’s been a long wait to secure a genuinely great FPS experience on Nintendo Switch. Bulletstorm Duke of Switch Edition – The Finger Guns Review Bulletstorm Duke of Switch Edition - The Finger Guns Review
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