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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.
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grviper: No release?
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sebarnolds: Retro City Rampage was on the front page but lead to a 404. It has now been removed but I guess it will come back sometimes today.
The GOG train will be arriving at the Retro City Rampage station in three hours from now. Sorry for the confusion.
Post edited October 09, 2012 by G-Doc
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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 ;-)
There are a few technical issues with the build; we'll release the game once we have the master back from the developer & it works. Apologies.
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Adzeth: You said there would be cake. Where is the cake, G-Doc?
:p
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adambiser: G-Doc was referring to GOG hours. Three GOG hours = Maybe today... who knows? :)
^That :-)

Also: you have to understand, Retro City Rampage was developed by just one guy. Incredibly talented and very game-literate, but still: one guy! If the release gets a little bit delayed I'm sure it's mostly stage-fright. Imagine you're this one person standing behind the curtain separating you from hundreds of thousands of gamers holding their breath in the audience (many of them having already paid a fair amount of money for the show you promised them). Wouldn't you get the jitters?

I know I would :-)
Post edited October 09, 2012 by G-Doc
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MischiefMaker: It's true. There is a line and it must not be crossed, not even by fictional entertainment. I remember when I was a little kid and was exposed to Mortal Kombat. The violence in Space Invaders was nothing like this! Being an innocent little kid, I emulated what I saw on the screen, and learned a severe lesson. You can just imagine the look of disappointment on the teacher's face when she caught me running around the playground swinging another kid's severed head around by its spinal cord shouting, "FLAWLESS VICTORY!" Clearly only steam users and other gamers who can handle DRM are mature enough for a game like this.
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Emualynk: Tell me about it man. I played Wolfenstein 3D when I was 5. Since then I steal everyone's gold and can only eat dog food. Everytime I hear a word of german I slit people's throat.
Ever since I started playing Carmageddon, I biught a car and started running people over here in Warsaw...ahhh the cries of old grannies as they scream "I was in the war!" in Polish...music to me ears, that :D