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Bulletspeak


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Together with EA and Epic Games, the Polish Painkiller developers People Can Fly are certainly doing their darndest to specifically target us connoisseurs with their latest Unreal Engine 3 game, Bulletstorm.

How, exactly, you may ask? Glancing over older press releases (frantic, adrenaline fueled, immersive) for Painkiller, the lingo has been amped up several notches: Symphony, carnage, blockbuster, unadulterated, entertainment, arsenal, outrageously, unprecedented, frantic, yell-inducing, inciting, mayhem, insane, execute, exaggerated, excited, onslaught, cutting-edge.

(Only missing the good ol’ slobberknocker and barnburner, in other words.)

Good thing, then, that the just-released debut trailer below should back up some of that smack, too:

Below, a list of excerpts and examples of the aforementioned jargon in action:

  1. The developers are slated to deliver a “Blood Symphony of Gunplay and Carnage†packed with “blockbuster momentsâ€
  2. The developers “believe” in “making killing ridiculous enemies as awesome as possibleâ€
  3. Inspired by pulp and Heavy Metal, the company is collaborating with comic book author Rick Remender, “best known for his original pulp sci-fi series Fear Agent and his work on Dead Spaceâ€
  4. The game places specific emphasis on the methodology of the kill: “special kills that reward players with increased upgrade pointsâ€
  5. The team “dubs the close combat in Bulletstorm ‘creative mayhem’”
  6. The company has also done away with the cover systems of today: “Bulletstorm … has no cover mechanism, and we’re turbo sliding 20 or so metres further than science’s popular ‘momentum’ would realistically take us.â€

While Wolfire & co. have been shoving it to the mainstream in a slightly different manner, People Can Fly seem to be aiming to counter the current established shooter paradigm in ways that are reminiscent of the Death of Glam Metal!

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I've been watching Bulletstorm ever since GI did the cover story on it a month or so back. Looks interesting, and if they can pull off what they want to pull off, they'll have one hell of a best-seller on their hands. Nice write-up, Vrap - always worth keeping fun-looking stuff on everybody's radar!

*huggles*

Areala

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