Hotline Miami

My "reference point" in top-down shooters were mostly old Gauntled derivatives such as Alien Breed, The Chaos Engine. This game is more like Smash TV, as it is even more action focused. It is a sequence of short but very difficult levels with some narration between levels, to allow for a healthy break. Gameplay-wise, it is a die and retry shooting game with an *incredible* pace and pityless difficulty (one shot and you are dead, bam !) It is as intense as the most nervous/intense FPS game such as Quake III : things happen so fast in this game that every second of it is enjoyable. The gameplay not only plays great but feels/looks great thanks to realistic sound effects, gore visuals, and punchy music. The weak point of the game is the technical side. It has been made with Game Maker and do have some technical issues/bugs. Hopefully this did not hinder my experience at all :)

It will get you hooked from the beggining, make you high from all the action and the withdrawl will be awful... until you play it more. Highly recommend it, short, tight and satisfying experience. For me - an example of a perfect game. From the machanics through the visuals, the story and the music - everything is perfect. And soundtrack is always on my playlist, I also play a level from time to time, it's just so so good.

Fun game if you can get to play it for a substantial amount of time, however in its current form i CANNOT recommend buying. the game suffers from a rather consistant crashing everytime something happens in game if its saving, loading a new enemy or something changes. tried everything i can to make it run but got nothing to show for it. until the crashing is fixed id avoid this one.

R to restart. You see this phrase a lot. But you don't mind. You push R und try again. You die again. R to restart. Rethink your strategy and try again. And again. And again. Until you made it. I never thought I'd have so much fun dying a lot. This game can be very hard but not unfair. It challenge you to rethink your strategies and start again. And again and again. But the feeling when you finally made it to the end of the level is just a great motivator. And on top of that the game has a truely great soundtrack. This game is hard, unforgiving, challenging, brutal, mixed with awesome music. Graphics are simple but fitting, controls are very tight and responsive. The only criticism I have is the wobbly and colorchanging background.

The game is awesome! If you have trouble with the mouse popping out of fullscreen and revealing menu bar or Dock in Mac then do this: Navigate to Hotline Miami.app/Contents/Resources/game/Hotline Miami.app/Contents/MacOS/HotlineMiami.app/Contents (you can access "Contents" folder by right-clicking on the .app-file and choose "Show Package Contents") Right-click on Info.plist file and choose Open with > Other Pick TextEdit (or you preferred tet editor) Add the following: <key>LSUIPresentationMode</key> <integer>3</integer> after: <key>LSMinimumSystemVersion</key> <string>10.6</string> and before: <key>NSHumanReadableCopyright</key> <string>Copyright © 2013 Devolver Digital. All rights reserved.</string> (point here is to have the keys in alphabetic order, I don't know if it's necessary) Save file and you're good to go!