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Posted October 09, 2012
It's Full of Vice!

Hotline Miami, a brutal 2D top-down shooter set in the neon '80s, is available for pre-order with a 10% discount for the next two weeks.

***Warning: this game is for adults only***

Every shot is deadly. Keep your composure, be lightning fast. Kill without mercy. Crush their skulls, gut them, decapitate, blow up, cut them in half. You will find yourself pushed beyond the limits of humanity. Wear your mask. Don't forgive. They're scum--the worst kind you can find in 1989 Miami. Will the bloodshed ever end? You tell me.

Hotline Miami is a as-gory-as-pixels-can-be high-octane action game set in alternative 1989 Miami. The top-down stealth shooter mixes lead pipe or katana-driven close combat and intense semi-automatic or shotgun-pumped gunplay. The game is extremely brutal and unforgiving; both in terms of what the masked antagonist is doing on screen and difficulty level. Make one mistake and it's your brain on the wall. Make no mistake and the satisfaction from completing yet another level is huge. Rarely you find a game that packs so much heat and delivers so much joy.

Dozens of weapons, battles with Miami's underground bosses, animal masks, neon corridors, pumping soundtrack, and fantastic visual style--all that and more in Hotline Miami, available for pre-order for only $8.99 until October 23 at 9:59 AM GMT.
Posted October 09, 2012
Pre-ordered. I've been in the mood for some more stealth-action games since I just finished Commandos: Strike Force.
Posted October 09, 2012
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JMich: So, anyone tried calling the hotline yet?
What's the number? There should be a real number like it was with Ghostbusters the movie - and there were 1000 phonecalls per hour in USA at the moment of release....
Posted October 09, 2012
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xep624: What's the number?
+1 (786) 519-3708
Can be found on the gamecard, I assume it's in Miami, not sure though.
Posted October 09, 2012
I wish this had multiplayer, it looks like it would be a fun deathmatch game at LAN parties.
Posted October 09, 2012
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trebor8273: lowyhong thanks thats changed my mind i really should not of judged this from a few screenshots and my initial reaction. really interested now
Really funny to watch this thread and the general opinion turning around. Probably gog should have linked the RPS article(s)... :D
Post edited October 09, 2012 by bubuiic
Posted October 09, 2012
Wow, only noticed the bad reactions after posting my previous post. People, you really have to read more previews. :P
Posted October 09, 2012
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F4LL0UT: Read a preview for this game in a Polish gaming mag. The author is absolutely crazy about it. I totally hate the visual style but it may actually be an amazing game.
There's an article about this game in Aussie PC mag - PC Powerplay 208, but there is nothing there about the mental state of the creator.... The game looks crazy and it's for fast and though people.... I like it's style and the red stains - reminds me some action shooters on Amiga.... However they were not so gore .... Except for Moonlight..... That was sweet game....
Posted October 09, 2012
agree bubuiic, the screenshots have really not done this game justice, a lesson to be learned we should not judge something to quickly till we get more info on it.
Posted October 09, 2012
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xep624: What's the number?
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JMich: +1 (786) 519-3708
Can be found on the gamecard, I assume it's in Miami, not sure though.
Yes, [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/786_(number)#Area_code]it is[/url].
Posted October 09, 2012
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bubuiic: Sorry I'm not following, who is this cactus and what's your problem with him? Care to elaborate?

As to the game, I read about it in the RPS article linked above and it sounded quite interesting to me.
cactus is one of the devs, a very talented designer of "experimental" (mindfuck) games, which I like as long as I'm not the one being trolled. I love how the game looks (delicious gradients), and I will play it at some point in the future, having had the mindfuck "experience" "spoiled", simply as a difficult shooter game.
Posted October 09, 2012
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trebor8273: lowyhong thanks thats changed my mind i really should not of judged this from a few screenshots and my initial reaction. really interested now
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bubuiic: Really funny to watch this thread and the general opinion turning around. Probably gog should have linked the RPS article(s)... :D
What we should have done was to simply use "cactus, Cactus, CACTUS!!!" as a tagline for this game ;-)
Posted October 09, 2012
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Fifeldor: Hey, this looks OK. Reminds me of an old Playstation game titled Psycho, I used to play, about 13 years ago. Wonder if Hotline is as fun as that was.
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haydenaurion: Psycho? I've never heard of that and I know of some pretty obscure games from that era, I can't even find it listed on Mobygames. Is it maybe known by another name in North America?
That, I don't know, it could have had a different name in the US. I think I had found it in a black demo disc that the Greek Official PSX Magazine used to distribute with every issue. Shame that at some point I threw all of these demo discs away, I spent countless hours playing these demos as a youngster who couldn't scrape enough pocket money to buy new games.

A couple of years ago I found out that these demo discs were actually mass produced and distributed from the UK Official PSX Magazine, and obviously they found their way to other official PSX mags.

Psycho was a 2-D top-down gory shooter (pretty gory for the time), in a corporate office setting where an employee goes postal and decides to kill everyone. If I remember right the character was red and everything else had different shades of grey, blue and black (except blood which was obviously red and abundant).
Posted October 09, 2012
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haydenaurion: Psycho? I've never heard of that and I know of some pretty obscure games from that era, I can't even find it listed on Mobygames. Is it maybe known by another name in North America?
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Fifeldor: That, I don't know, it could have had a different name in the US. I think I had found it in a black demo disc that the Greek Official PSX Magazine used to distribute with every issue. Shame that at some point I threw all of these demo discs away, I spent countless hours playing these demos as a youngster who couldn't scrape enough pocket money to buy new games.

A couple of years ago I found out that these demo discs were actually mass produced and distributed from the UK Official PSX Magazine, and obviously they found their way to other official PSX mags.

Psycho was a 2-D top-down gory shooter (pretty gory for the time), in a corporate office setting where an employee goes postal and decides to kill everyone. If I remember right the character was red and everything else had different shades of grey, blue and black (except blood which was obviously red and abundant).
Net Yaroze game i think: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QX3FlFU2Dws
Post edited October 09, 2012 by gameon
Posted October 09, 2012
Kind of reminds me of Crimsonland in a way

The game doesn't really looks terribly interesting or exciting to me so far, guess I'll just wait until release and hear what people will say about it
Posted October 09, 2012
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Fifeldor: That, I don't know, it could have had a different name in the US. I think I had found it in a black demo disc that the Greek Official PSX Magazine used to distribute with every issue. Shame that at some point I threw all of these demo discs away, I spent countless hours playing these demos as a youngster who couldn't scrape enough pocket money to buy new games.

A couple of years ago I found out that these demo discs were actually mass produced and distributed from the UK Official PSX Magazine, and obviously they found their way to other official PSX mags.

Psycho was a 2-D top-down gory shooter (pretty gory for the time), in a corporate office setting where an employee goes postal and decides to kill everyone. If I remember right the character was red and everything else had different shades of grey, blue and black (except blood which was obviously red and abundant).
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gameon: Net Yaroze game i think: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QX3FlFU2Dws
Goddamn, thanks. It was Psychon, not Psycho.

Edit: The nostalgia, that PSX opening screen and music...
Post edited October 09, 2012 by Fifeldor
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