Hotline Miami: First Impressions
When looking at screenshots and trailers, it seems that this game is a typical Sisca, that is, the GTA clone, however, unlike Saints Row or Sleeping Dogs, not GTA 3 and GTA 4, but the very first Grand Theft Auto, with all its pixels and hardcore. But in reality, everything turned out to be somewhat different.
Open World? Forget! All Hotline Miami is a set of missions, each of which boils down to enter the next building and kill everyone there. Of course, each mission is accompanied by some briefing, but it is not necessary to delve into the content, which, of course, is a big plus for those who are not friends with English. The funny thing is that in the Russian version of the game only the headline in the main menu is translated.
Since in the preface I stuttered about hardcore, casinosnogamstop.co.uk/ I will tell you more about it. Kill here from the first shot regardless of weapons. Moreover, enemies miss extremely rarely, and then only when you run rackly around the room, but the size of the rooms and interiors of the rooms do not allow this to do this even for one second. The game has three types of close -up weapons, and three types of firearms.(Hurry, of course, there are much more of them). Well, everything is clear with the firearms-it shoots differently, but if any weapon kills from the first blow, what is the difference between a knife, a baseball bat and a crowbar (or a club, the devil knows)? Everything is quite simple – in the speed of the swing. At least the difference is small, but in Hotline Miami is quite tangible.
Continuing the theme of hardcore – with each launch of the same mission, the weapon is “issued” by the opponents randomly, and all the tactics have to be invented again. This is what: at the end of each level, statistics are displayed, and the number of points is affected by the Combo, T.e. murders in a short period of time of several enemies, as well as the time of the mission, so the player is interested in the quick passage. So all the movements and shots have to be brought to automatism. The last time it was with me when playing … well, yes, Super Meat Boy. There is one more reason: after the thirtieth attempt to go through the same place, the desire to wait a convenient moment, to occupy a favorable position, in a word, “creste” completely disappears. So, when the mission is restarted, the weapons of enemies change, and all the worked out actions become unusable.
I almost forgot about finishing. If the enemy was stunned and lying unconscious, you can approach him and, by pressing the simple combination of keys to make finishing. Of course, in such a large pixel grid it is difficult to make out anything, but it is still clear that our hero is a baseball bat’s beat the enemy on the head, the throat cuts the throat with a knife, and if the weapons are not in his hands, the enemy simply huddles on the floor. In addition, there are times when the enemy does not lose consciousness, but shell -shocked and accepted to crawl along the floor. In this case, you can approach him and with a light movement of the hand to turn his neck. Such things are not impressive as much as in Manhunt for example, the nose is quite spectacular.
A few words about the graphics. She, as you can see, is a coarse-grained, especially on a 21-inch monitor, but, oddly enough, it does not cause irritation, on the contrary-the eyes get used to it very quickly and play quite comfortably.
I want to highlight the music separately. As a rule, the terrible 8-bit soundtrack is being stuffed into pixelart games, which after a couple of minutes begins to literally drive crazy. In Hotline Miami – just electronic melodies, monotonous, but rather unobtrusive. This is great, because at any level, not counting the first two, you can spend a lot of time.
If you fold everything the above, it turns out that Hotline Miami and GTA are common – only a view from above and, perhaps, stylization. This does not mean at all that the game is bad. The game is very good, perfectly suits to “lower the steam”, but, on the other hand, it itself can not be bored with nerves. However, this is a completely acceptable price for the pleasure received.