Bulletstorm Message Board older than one year ago

#news Yesterday, FOX News ran a story on Bulletstorm and got pretty much everything wrong. That's not the real story, though. They real story is how they got everything wrong: they did it on purpose. More »

How will you kill? Hear the story behind the skill shots and gratuitous fun of Bulletstorm's unadulterated violence and humor in this interview with Producer Tanya Jessen!

Much like seasonal allergies and taxes, the gaming populace is periodically subjected to mainstream news coverage of its favorite entertainment medium. And while said coverage is often laced with inaccurate statements and fear-laden non sequiturs, it doesn't usually ask questions in the headline like Fox News' latest treatment: "Is Bulletstorm the Worst Video Game in the World?"

Our brief time with the game's demo -- not to mention the time we spent playing Superman 64 so many years ago -- certainly gives us the impression that Bulletstorm isn't "the worst video game in the world," but we get the feeling that Fox's John Brandon is asking something else.

#censorship Upcoming shooter Bulletstorm, which is revelling in its violent trimmings, has had to face a reckoning of sorts in Germany, with much of the game's trademark content cut just so it could be released. More »

#science For one Fox News reporter the worst thing about Epic's upcoming first-person shooter isn't the over-the-top violence and excessive profanity. It's the naming of Skill Shots after sex acts. Could they lead to real-world sexual violence? More »

From the personal log of Grayson Hunt, space pirate and connoisseur of booze:

Most folks, they think my job's all about shootin' things. Other people, mostly. And it's true. But just shooting scumbags all day would be two words: bor-ing. Today? Anything but. Truth is, it was pretty crazy ... from what I can remember before blacking out. Heh.

It all started onboard my ship. Some creep thought he'd try to collect the bounty on my head (and the rest of my crew), so we tied him to a chair and I practiced aiming by shooting at a bottle on his head. I'd just downed the contents of said bottle, so it was a little tricky. Didn't kill him, though; let the airlock do that.

See, here we were, about to say something critical of Bulletstorm's unabashed, deplorable violence -- and then they go and release a new Skillisode trailer, showing off a "Breakdancing" maneuver that has filled our hearts with utter delight. Watch it here, and share in our joy.

The Bulletstorm team presents the calm before the storm: Duty Calls.

One of the most honest console FPS walkthroughs you've ever seen!

Let the fireworks fly with these explosive skill shots in the fourth volume of Skillisodes with Bulletstorm!

#bulletstorm Check out the latest installment of Bulletstorm's Skillisodes, showing off new ways to kill with skill in Epic's upcoming shooter. More »

If Bulletstorm's ad campaign teaches you one thing, it's this: Someone on development team People Can Fly came up with the term "dick-tits" and they put it in a video game. If it teaches you two things, it's the "dick-tits" thing and the fact that Bulletstorm shouldn't be compared to other popular shooters. Yes, if you're reading the contextual clues (smarty), the inclusion of "dick-tits" in the game may have told you that already, but in case you're really thick, the devs have created another expensive spoof for you.

The first time around, Bulletstorm poked fun at Halo 3's famous "Believe" diorama commercial; this time, it's Activision's Call of Duty series, which is reimagined as a free downloadable game dubbed "Duty Calls." You can download the 758MB game file directly from thedutycalls.com (or from our sister site Big Download, if that's more your speed), but we should warn you: You'll need at least 512MB of RAM, a 2+ Ghz CPU, 8GB of hard drive space, eighteen sound cards, three CD-ROM drives, and a subwoofer to play it. So we've done you a solid: Clamber past the break to watch the full four-minute walkthrough.

Free downloadable game "Duty Calls" released ahead of February 22 release date.

#dutycalls Look away, Call of Duty fans. Bulletstorm's Duty Calls parody game viciously sums up the Call of Duty experience in one painfully funny four-minute experience complete with boring briefings, bloody screens, and the obligatory slow-motion shoot-out. Watch us play it. More »

The Bulletstorm "Skillisodes" trailer posted after the jump features no in-game dialogue whatsoever. Don't worry, though -- People Can Fly managed to inject the video with the required amount of inappropriateness in the names of the previewed skills themselves. Pretty sneaky, People Can Fly.

Put some major fiery pain on your enemies with the shotgun!

Dead Space: Extraction also lurking in the Store update.

Check out the hardass demo of Bulletstorm, fresh with plenty of attitude!

Kick out some epic combo deaths in the Bulletstorm playable demo!

Gruesome deaths aplenty! Riddle your brain with more ways to kill before the full release of Bulletstorm!

#demo Epic's demo of its upcoming over-the-top first-person shooter Bulletstorm urges players to kill with skill. Lacking any real skill myself, fits of childish giggling will have to do. More »

Killing aliens and loving it.

The Bulletstorm trailer after the break really speaks for itself. Specifically, it says things for itself like "combos that'll pucker your butthole." To find out if that claim is accurate, you'll be able to check out a demo tomorrow. You don't have to tell us if it is.

Watch the ways you can exact your revenge and get the demo to tide you over until the game's release!

We blaze through Bulletstorm's Echoes mode, hunting for a high score.

Based on all the promotional materials we've seen and hands-on time we've had with Bulletstorm, we can confidently say that the game looks to be what those in the scientific community would call "a trip." Epic Games has clued in our sister site Big Download to a feature that might exponentially increase said trippyness: The PC version of Bulletstorm will include 3D-display support, provided you've got the right kind of monitor, glasses and an Nvidia GeForce-based graphics card.

As excited as we are about the opportunity to freeze an enemy in the air, then kick him backward through actual planes of depth, we're actually more thrilled about something else: seeing the game's dialog as three-dimensional subtitles. It's like we can reach out and touch the "dick-tits."

Bulletstorm's latest skillkill trailer misses the mark by not showing us the skillshots we really want to see - "Gag Reflex" showed up in last one. Thankfully, we can try to figure them out for ourselves when the demo hits January 25.

Learn how to execute a new batch of skill shots in Bulletstorm.

We've all seen it: you're making your way through a game and you notice something about the enemies. The bad guys in level seven look eerily familiar to those zombie elves you dispatched in level three.

In Bulletstorm, an entire army has been created from just one guy, and a People Can Fly dev blog post tells us how regular enemies puts that same character model to use (as a single model helps to combat memory limitations). The way the developer sidesteps the whole "boring generic army of clones" thing is through slight body size variations, cosmetic attachments and even skin tones, as you can see above. This varied accoutrement will (hopefully) help each baddie seem unique when the game launches next month.