![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() New PS5, PS4 Games This Week (17th April to 23rd April) Whether it's flying cars zipping past skyscrapers on the horizon, or neon lights glowing in a grim backstreet, Huntdown looks the part. Visually the game is a stunning recreation of the 16-bit side scrollers of yesteryear, with an impressive attention to detail that means there's always something catching your eye. That's a hint, Easy Trigger Games.Īnd it's not just your ears that are in for a treat, either. It's one part Blade Runner, one part The Running Man, garnished with a bit of John Carpenter for good measure and if it was on Spotify we'd be listening to it right now. But beyond the amusing quips your character utters when dispatching foes, there's the absolutely killer soundtrack to consider. Huntdown liberally borrows one-liners from classic 80s action movies like Predator and Rocky IV, and these will likely raise a smile if you're familiar with the source material. You won't want to mute the TV the rest of the time, though. In the end we actually had to mute the television because our fiancée was getting so annoyed she almost called off the wedding. If you get killed fighting him about twelve times like we did, this is really going to start grating on you. He says it every three or four seconds throughout the entire boss fight. He's a veteran of a presumably awful future war who's suffering from shellshock and can only say the phrase, "Oh, the horrors!" But he doesn't just say it once, or twice, or even thrice. ![]() There's one boss in particular that really ground our gears. There's one liners ripped directly from classic movies of the era, characters that reference cultural icons, and even one baddie that talks exactly like legendary WWF wrestler "Macho Man" Randy Savage. The characters are ridiculous stereotypes and walking tropes and the dialogue is clunky, but that's all part of the charm, and it feels like an authentic recreation of violent action cinema from decade that did it best. The game is proud of the 80s movies, music, and pop culture that inspired it, and this love for the decade shines throughout. Anyone born after Spandau Ballet broke up will be missing out, not just in regards to recognising the references in Huntdown, but also in life. The game is a love letter to 80s action movies, and since we're old and we love thinking about how much better everything was back in our day, we got a real kick out of it. Of course, if you don't know who Robocop is, or even worse, you do but you're thinking about the godawful remake with Michael Keaton in it, then you might be befuddled at many of the references in Huntdown. He's a bit like what you'd imagine Robocop would be like after four or five Jägerbombs. Aside from how they look, and how they sound, they all play in largely the same way, but we found ourselves gravitating towards the robot, Mow Man. You play as one of three bounty hunters - there's a mercenary lady with an eye patch, a cybernetic ex-cop with a metal jaw, and a sassy posh robot. The levels are short and the checkpoints are forgiving, so even when the difficulty ramps up the game never feels unbeatable. Huntdown plays like an old school side-scrolling shoot 'em up, but unlike a lot of titles in the genre you only need to concern yourself with shooting horizontally - there's no diagonal or upward fire. With the police outgunned and outmanned they call in professional bounty hunters to sort it all out, and this is where you come in. It's a bit like Escape from New York or Mad Max or Tesco on a Friday afternoon during the coronavirus lockdown. The future sucks as we've already established, and in this particular sucky future, murderous gangs roam city streets doing whatever the hell they please and the cops can't do a damned thing about it. So don't get any ideas.Īnyway, on that cheery note, here's a review for a game set in the future called Huntdown. Even if by some small chance the human race isn't eradicated by Terminators or roasted in the fires of atomic war, one day the sun will expand and wipe us all out anyway. Either we're enslaved by robotic overlords, starving because we ran out of natural resources, or we just blow ourselves up with weapons of mass destruction. The future sucks, doesn't it? There's always something. ![]()
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