Bulletstorm Impressions

First impressions can be deceptive, but sadly I'd wager that my current thoughts on the initially promising Bulletstorm aren't going to change come release day February 28th. The demo I tried gave me a taste of Echo mode, a challenge mode where you replay the missions you've completed and try and score more points by getting inventive with your kills. That's an interesting concept right from the off, if only developer People Can Fly could find a way to expand on it for some genuine fun and innovation, as right now the options of what you can actually use to kill your oppressors are surprisingly limited for a title that totes creativity as its main feature. To give it its due, Bulletstorm plays unlike any other FPS ever released before, however in all real honesty I'd rather play any other FPS since in placing its emphasis on 18-rated fun and taking the emphasis off the generally central element of danger, People Can Fly have lost much of what makes any first-person-shooter a riot to play nowadays. That there's not going to be any multi-player short of co-op whatsoever (and even that team-based mode will just be reusing the single player campaign missions)will undoubtedly reek of lack of value for money from a publisher as highly esteemed as Epic Studios, so unless the demo was a bad representation of a game that had loads of potential when it was first announced, I would recommend you saved your cash for Epic's other shooter Gears of War 3 out this Autumn as that's pretty much guaranteed to be a sure-fire hit!