Worst of all, so haphazardly has the replacement been done that Duke uses all the same animations as Gray - it is, really, no more than a reskinning - and this becomes problematic when it comes to the lip-sync. It feels clumsy, so much so that when it then tries to be self-referential about this, it feels more like it's laughing at you for having paid than itself for having failed. Occasionally it rather desperately resorts to Duke's saying pretty much the same line as the original in order for there to be any sense, and this always entirely contradicts the rest of his character. Duke fairly early on gives up correcting people who call him Gray, and instead just says tired, "borrowed" action dialogue that doesn't quite match up with the conversation around him. Now, had this been handled with flare and grace it could have been pretty funny. (Those old enough to have enjoyed Duke Nukem 3D will recall his most famous lines just happened to have been previously uttered by the likes of They Live and Evil Dead.) And yes, I scarequote "original", because it's as fresh as Duke's lines ever were. Leading to the incessant farce that his hastily bashed out lines absolutely do not fit in to the game, clashing amateurishly with the original dialogue spoken by the rest of the cast. It's a straight replacement of former hero Grayson Hunt with the ever-dreary Duke, with all "original" dialogue from the flat-topped anti-hero. Of course this is an optional mode, offered as a pre-order bonus or separate DLC, but if you played the original then it's really the only new content available. And, naturally, the results are a disaster. It's so madly out of touch with reality, a decision made by a boardroom so isolated from actual air-breathing humans that they think Duke Nukem is anything other than a weary punchline. The Wicker Man, but Edward Woodward usurped by Nicolas Cage - oh wait. True Lies, but with Arnie's role portrayed by Dane Cook. It's like re-releasing Bladerunner but replacing Harrison Ford with Mel Gibson. So now it's back, olden DLC included, and with new DLC that, oh, replaces the central character with Duke Nukem. It's great, you can't buy the original any more, and so if you never did you should. We really like the original Bulletstorm, present here, and we haven't changed our minds. You can read Quintin's original review, our group verdict of the game, and Alice's more recent reflections on the fun it offered. I really enjoy it, despite its being a corridor shooter - it gets the constricted genre exactly right, allowing inventive, improvised combat within its narrow walls, charging from ridiculous set-piece to more ridiculous set-piece without pause, and it does it well. You don't need me to review Bulletstorm again. Saying that, looking at old screenshots it's hard to tell the difference, but this more stands as testament to how damned good it looked back then. Although close-ups of faces reveal the passage of time, and some textures are pretty cruddy, the vistas remain breathtaking. Six year old pretty tends to look pretty crummy in the present, and this certainly doesn't. I remember that it looked extremely pretty back then, and it looks extremely pretty now (outside of cutscenes, that look bizarrely awful), so that likely means it's been much upgraded. The original version is gone from the inter-shops (owned by EA, it's not even on Origin), so I can't really compare. It has been, they say, visually upgraded, 4K resolutions added, and I'll assume that's true. Oh, and the PC version was gruesomely strangled by GFWL at the time, which certainly didn't help matters. But modest sales were not enough to convince the bossmen it was worth persisting with a sequel. ![]() People Can Fly managed to be boorish without being vile. ![]() Competent, well written (comic guru Rick Remender wrote the dumb-but-smart script), and incessantly bombastic, it completely delivered. It was a big budget FPS that tossed aside all the bullshit bathos that polluted the genre then and now, focusing on gore, explosions and naughty swears. That'll be full price, please!īulletstorm rather inexplicably didn't sell well. It's Bulletstorm from six years ago, that entertaining FPS, but this time with an optional additional mode that is loads worse. ![]() What a peculiar thing is Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition.
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