It's been a while since my last blog post on the subject, but it's taken me a while to get another game off of my backlog (not through lack of trying, more that I'm getting back in to Left 4 Dead 2). And now I've played through and completed Bulletstorm.
 
You know, it's not a bad game. The whole idea of skillshots is a wonderful idea. Rather than just trying to pump bullets into your opponents until they fall, the game rewards you for trying new and different things. Not only do they encourage you to swap out weapons to try to get different skillshots, but they encourage you to look around the environment to find new ways to kill enemies. It has some very generic weapons (you always carry around an assault rifle. And you get a pistol and a shotgun), but some of the later weapons are fairly fun to play with (I liked the Flail Gun. It's hard to use, because it's easy to hit walls or bits of scenery with it, but it's satisfying when you wrap an opponent with it).
 
Back when the game first came out, I remember there being a lot of talk about the foul language used. And for most of the game, I was confused, since the language wasn't all that bad. But that's all Sarrano seems to spit out when he joins your group. I really could have done without half the things he was saying. I get that it's another way that the game is getting you to hate the character, but it was just annoying by the end of it.
 
So, for the most part, I had fun with the game. I don't play a ton of first person shooters, but this one did feel a lot different than the ones I usually play. I could see myself coming back to it in a year or two for another run through (it's a fairly short game, and there's still a few skillshots I haven't accomplished yet).