Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition

The trouble with Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition is it’s got a list of negatives which can stand just as tall as the positives. For all its cockiness the humour is one-dimensional, the visuals bland and the campaign short. In 2017 it really doesn’t hold up too well. Whisper it, but a Painkiller remake would have made for a far more enjoyable time.

Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition is a fun violent prance through fields of f-bombs and shooting dudes in the crotch that still makes me upset that there isn’t a Bulletstorm 2 in the works. If you’ve never played Bulletstorm then the Full Clip Edition is definitely worth a look when if you want your shooters to contain challenging, yet rewarding gunplay whose story is simple, silly and completely out its mind.

The remaster itself, tragically, is really quite good. It runs beautifully in 4K at a smooth 60 frames-per-second, with characters and environments that still look striking today. Aside from some occasionally buggy ally A.I., it’s polished up nicely, and I wish I could say it was worth rushing out to buy.

Remasters are part of this generation whether we like them or not. Bulletstorm is a game perfect for this trend as a lot of players likely missed it the first time around. The addition of Duke Nukem and all the DLC is nice, but the sticker shock is real. This is the kind of game that would have done much better with just a little lower price of entry.

Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition is a blast from the past in some amazing and awful ways. Despite a horrific ending sequence, the gunplay, graphics and frame rates are enthralling even compared to current FPS games — an easy recommendation for those who missed out the first time. You will just find yourself wishing People Can Fly polished up some more archaic points of the game that drag down the experience.

It brings one of the most underappreciated gems of the last generation up to date for a whole new legion of players to discover and enjoy, and though it’s now six years old, the gameplay hasn’t aged one bit. If you like your games to be full of crass humour and violently creative action, Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition is absolutely essential.