Kickoff-person shooter Bulletstorm has been out for a week and we must say the mostly positive reviews and commentary from critics remind us of the simplistic and erstwhile-fashioned shooter Serious Sam. That, plus a generous corporeality of profanity that is meant to give a flashy spin to the genre.

Marketing for the game has followed a similar pattern. Terminal January a viral video for Bulletstorm was released spoofing Halo three'south "Believe" campaign. Then a month later they followed up by mocking the Call of Duty series with a gratuitous downloadable PC game named "Duty Calls". That's non to say information technology's all been genius on EA's part considering that they refused PC gamers a demo that consoles did receive alee of release.

Co-developed by Ballsy Games and People Tin can Fly, the companies claim to have focused on the gameplay and storyline of Bulletstorm rather than the visuals. That said, if yous look at whatsoever of the screenshots of the gorgeous vistas nosotros took within the game y'all will be impressed with how they have used the Unreal Engine iii.v.

At the center of Bulletstorm's gameplay is the "skillshot" organization. This gameplay arrangement rewards the player for creating and inciting mayhem in the most creative and destructive ways possible, from killing an enemy in midair to pushing an enemy into a cannibal plant to executing an enemy after shooting him in the testicles. The more unusual the skillshot, the more than points players acquire to upgrade their character and unlock weapons, which let the thespian to perform even more creative moves and exaggerated skillshots.

At this betoken we should mention another game that Bulletstorm reminds usa of: Singularity. Nosotros tested this game concluding year, also built using the tried and truthful Unreal 3 game engine, but that's not where similarities stop. We found Singularity to be frustrating to adjust given that the developer (Raven) decided to conceal all advanced configuration settings from users despite the fact a majority of PC gamers similar to tweak options to improve operation and visual quality. Bulletstorm unfortunately follows this trend, as noticed by many, no matter whether yous are most interested in the single-histrion or multiplayer portion of the game.

As usual our focus with this performance review will be on how Bulletstorm will run on your PC. After struggling with the game's configuration settings, nosotros were able to run all the necessary tests using a large array of GPUs equally well as a number of different processors. Read on.