![]() ![]() ![]() However, this lack of variety in how missions flow is more than made up for by just how good it feels to blast through these deadly gauntlets, the fine detail in every aspect of the pixel-style graphics infusing everything you do with a real sense of satisfying momentum and weight. Sure, each area is stuffed full of new types of goon and each has their own flavour and style, but there's no escaping the fact that they all follow the exact same script with a little bit of outdoors, then indoors, then boss. If there's one aspect of the game that we did feel a little disappointed with it's this lack of diversity in structure, having the flow of levels play out more or less the same every time. Clear the boss and you'll get a chance to return to your vehicle before heading back out to rinse and repeat in the next zone of the mission. The various areas that make up Huntdown's futuristic cityscape are each broken up into five short zones which all follow much the same pattern you'll jump out of your futuristic sports car, blast your way through an initial open area then head indoors to fight through a few screens-worth of scum before reaching a boss battle. Your hunter can only shoot horizontally in front of themselves and – although this rather unique restriction takes a little getting used to – it helps focus the action, making taking cover and using platforms to get a clear line of sight on enemies a vital part of staying alive. These moments are further embellished by the whizzing, whistling and loud pings of bullets as they fly by or ricochet off nearby surfaces. The ability to push up on the D-pad, Rolling Thunder-style, in front of darkened doorways and alleys to take shelter, popping out to return fire at a goon who's doing exactly the same, is just one those gaming mechanics that immediately makes the gunfights you're involved in look and feel super cool. Captured on Nintendo Switch (Handheld/Undocked) ![]() As well as getting tooled-up with rocket launchers, remotely-detonated bombs, sniper rifles and futuristic machine guns, your avatar can also dash to avoid attacks, kick nearby foes, slide across the ground, take cover behind objects and in shadowy corners as they march into relentless enemy gunfire. ![]() Meaty gunfire rips through walls, splinters wood and tears human targets limb-from-limb in fantastically gory detail the game's glorious cyberpunk battlefields left a bloody mess of broken bodies and busted backdrops as your stone-cold bounty hunter shoots their way from contract to contract, taking down the bosses of various gangs as they wrestle back control from the vicious thugs and hooligans who have made every street corner and alleyway their home.Įach of the three bounty hunters at your disposal in Huntdown has a different primary weapon but all share the same move set, alongside the ability to pick up a ton of secondary weapons that they'll find strewn around the game's various battlegrounds. Police are all but powerless – fighting desperately in the face of overwhelming odds – the public is in hiding and it's now down to hardcore bounty hunters with an insatiable hunger for cold-hard cash to wade into the bloody morass and take down the thugs that have turned the city into a smouldering warzone.Įasy Trigger Games' Huntdown is a retro side-scrolling arcade shooter that takes the 16-bit stylings of the classic run n' gun games it seeks to emulate and ramps up the graphical detail and wanton destruction beautifully. On the mayhem-filled streets of a hyper-violent future version of society, marauding criminal gangs have taken control. ![]()
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