Hotline Miami

I was late to the party on this one, the reviews were not lying! Hotline Miami is fast, violent and frustrating fun, you receive a phone call from someone asking you to kill a building full of Russian mobsters, simple as! The combat is gory and fast paced, melee weapons are silent but short ranged, whereas guns are loud and long ranged. It's only £8 on ps4 in the U.K, pick it up, please.

Hotline Miami is one of my favorite games of all time. Here's some highlights.

Great soundtrack. The ost perfectly captures the surreal aesthetic the game portrays

Cool mask collection. Each one giving you a unique ability like super speed or fists of fury

Interesting story. Jackets journey is one to behold, it's simple yet bizarre with some twists here and there

Large assortments of weapons. Like sledgehammers, katanas, skorpians etc

There's a few downsides though.

Some masks I find to be useless like the George mask.

Melee combat can be broken at time sometimes if you attempt to attack the enemy your weapon will sometimes not do any damage and the end up just killing you.

I still recommend playing it through.

This game is simple, violent and satisfying. The story is very interesting and it kinda gives me some Nicolas Winding Refn vibes, which I really like. But gosh, this game's soundtrack is on another level.

Amazing.

Hotline Miami is ver good. The sprites all look great, the music and atmosphere are great, and the story is really trippy and weird (in a good way). Combat, however, is a double edged sword. Sometimes it's really dynamic and fun, but from my experience, the lock on system is completely broken. In something like Zelda Ocarina of Time, pressing and holding the lock on button will lock on to an enemy, and letting go and holding it again will syphon through different enemies on screen. This works great and I never had any problems with it in that game. In Hotline Miami, pressing the lock on button will result in you locking on to an enemy. When you press the lock on button again, lock on will turn off. To syphon through enemies, you need to use the right control stick, which is incredibly imprecise and often locks on to the wrong enemy. Whenever I killed an enemy that I was locked on to, the game wouldn't auto lock on to the nearest enemy, instead it would auto lock to any random enemy, even offscreen ones. If you kill an enemy that you were locked on to and another starts running toward you, the game will either not lock on to anything or not lock on to the enemy that is running directly at you. I died a lot because of the clunky lock on in this game and it was very frustrating. The game is still very good and is worth playing, but the lock on is so bad.

Hotline Miami is a insane, bloody, and super violent in the depths of the Miami criminal world. You play as a guy who receives phone-calls every-night making you do the dirty work. While you're doing the dirty work, you get to wear theses different type of mask which have special abilities on how to deal with things. While you're violently killing your foes, you have this amazing soundtrack that goes along perfectly. Though the story is simply weird when you start progressing further like you're entering a bloody nightmare.

Pros: Replay value is high,tons of masks,very violent,levels are challenging,worth the price,amazing soundtrack.

Cons: The levels are a little bit small.

This game is awesome if you want a some quick gruesome fun.