It’s almost impressive in its tonal deficiency
Bulletstormis a game that’s drenched in ridiculousness. Its inane over-the-top combo-centric action is complemented by its equally juvenile dialogue. Here’s a sampling of some choice quotes: “I will kill your dicks!”; “You still reek of sunbaked asshole!”; “Take a lick on the salted taint of doom, you brain-dead biker whores!”; “Trudging through that radioactive goo mutated our good general into a giant pussy.”
Thatis the kind of not-self-serious gameBulletstormis. You wouldn’t know it by watching this trailer for the remaster, though. Rather than leaning into everything that definesBulletstorm, Gearbox and People Can Fly pulled back and cut a trailer that makes it seem like nothing more than another snappy, setpiece-obsessed shooter. The choice of music is especially dissonant.
Bulletstormoozes machismo in an effective parody of the space marineGears of War-like tropes that rose to prominence during the last console generation. It was underappreciated and this remaster is a second chance to revel in everything that madeBulletstormdumb but unique. You just wouldn’t know it by watching this trailer.
