Bulletstorm ESRB Rating is Comedy Gold

[Lucifer dern]

"one Skillshot (i.e., Fire in the Hole) allows players to shoot at enemies' exposed buttocks."

I can't stop laughing, I'm not even going to ask why the enemie has exposed buttocks! God dame this is a must buy.
Duke Nukem, you took too long so these guy have come to take your place.

 

[Rajin Cajun]

This actually sounds amazing.

 

[Andronicus]

Excessive violence targeting the lowest common denominator? Great. I guess. Since when was the value of a game determined by the quantity and candidness of its sexual references?

Count me out.

 

[Mechsoap]

Pre-ordering it now...

 

[Eclectic Dreck]

People Can Fly have decisively proven that they know how to make an enjoyable FPS, so I'm in. That it might out-Duke Duke Nuke 'Em is just a bonus.

I don't see how this game could out Duke the Duke. They seem like fundamentally different games and all they share is camera perspective and juvenile regard for foul language and violence. It might out painkiller or Serious Sam as these games are seemingly similar. But Duke was always a traditional shooter of the moment no matter what the camera perspective. This is more of an arcade affair where someone was confused as to if they were creating a fighting game or a new House of the Dead and just threw in ideas for both, just in case.

 

[SenseOfTumour]

For me, it's knowing it's coming from the guys who made Painkiller, which was just all kinds of satisfying as shooters go, with amazing weapons, interesting enemies and great levels.

Ok, the jumping parts were annoying, especially for some of the bonus achievements (the tarot cards), but if you didn't care about them, it was pure fun!

It'll be amazing if they can retro us back to the idea of shooting stuff for score and combo multipliers, instead of for some plot reason

 

[WanderingFool]

Hmmm, Forgive me, but I must go...

*heads to a Gamestop to preorder the shit out of this game*

 

[solidstatemind]

I don't see how this game could out Duke the Duke. They seem like fundamentally different games and all they share is camera perspective and juvenile regard for foul language and violence. It might out painkiller or Serious Sam as these games are seemingly similar. But Duke was always a traditional shooter of the moment no matter what the camera perspective. This is more of an arcade affair where someone was confused as to if they were creating a fighting game or a new House of the Dead and just threw in ideas for both, just in case.

Actually, I completely disagree, but I should mention that I'm limiting the comparison to the FPS games, specifically Duke Nukem 3D and Duke Nukem Forever, and not the platformers. Aside from camera perspective and puerile sense of humor, they also feature a main character who is supposed to be a total badass, who shoot off quips based on the way he kills stuff (although there may not be a vocal aspect to it in Bulletstorm- at least I haven't seen a trailer with one, but I haven't been looking very hard), you're killing Aliens/Mutants in a variety of interesting ways (DN3D had the pipe-bomb, which is still a personal favorite), the games are unabashedly single player focused, they both use the Epic Unreal3 Engine...

Besides, Serious Sam was often praised for being like Duke in many ways, so I fail to see how saying Bulletstorm is like SS means that it can't be like Duke.

You are entitled to your opinion, of course, but I think you're just picking nits over an offhand comment.

 

[Monshroud]

Painkiller was pretty damn fun (Thanks Yahtzee!), so I think I will need to pre-order this. Question now is what platform.. I am thinking PC, as I tend to prefer FPS on them.