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Games/Hotline Miami/Reviews
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Hotline Miami
A top-down shooter game with an 80s aesthetic, a brutal style, and a thoughtful, slightly surreal philosophy underlying the story about the nature of violence.
A Violent Symphony of Retro Carnage
Hotline Miami, developed by Dennaton Games and published by Devolver Digital , has made its way onto the PlayStation 4, bringing with it a frenetic blend of top-down action, brutal violence, and pulsa… Read more
Let's murder Miami
I don’t want to worry anyone, but I’m sure at some point you’ve seen a documentary on a serial killer and thought “I could do that” or “What an idiot getting caught, I’d have just done this”. Hotline… Read more
Tetris, Threes!, Pac-man, Hotline Miami?
From the outside Hotline Miami would appear to another one of those action shooter games that are all the rage these days. Beneath the initial impression however is a trance inducing puzzle game with… Read more
Pure Mayhem
Translating a film to a completely different medium is a commendable task. 2011's Drive was a fairly well made movie consisting of gruesome violence alongside a dark, brooding, and atmospheric mob nar… Read more
Hotline Miami Review
Hotline Miami is a classic example that you shouldn't judge a book (or game) by its cover. First impressions from screenshots and videos may leave you thinking of it as a run of the mill, top-down sho… Read more
Visually striking, frustrating to play.
There is a plot intertwined amongst the levels in Hotline Miami, but it is a vague and bland one. You play as an unnamed man who receives messages on his answering machine, sending him to certain addr… Read more
What a rush.
Note to self: never mix cornflakes with cocaine. Set during the end stretch of 80s Miami, Hotline Miami has you take up the role of a nameless, voiceless protagonist, as you smash, cut, cleave, slice… Read more
Hotline Miami - blood and guts with strategy
Go grab this! Hotline Miami has a fantastic art style and relies on a combination of strategy and quick reactions to overcome each of it's combat puzzles. If you are not a fan of blood guts and violen… Read more
A brutal, nonsensical, bloodied love letter to the 80's, Hotline Miami is a disturbing thrill ride from start to finish.
Who are you? Why are you doing these things? Who are these strange figures cryptically talking to you? Why does this one guy work in every place I visit? Is any of this real? These are but a few quest… Read more
Hey, I just met you and this is crazy! So, here's my hotline...
"Cool, now try to do it with a mouse and keyboard." Easiest thing in the world for most gamers, but the hardest thing in the world for me. I'm not the type that hovers my face over a keyboard and poke… Read more
Only one word to describe it: Delicious
How can a game so violent and so difficult be so incredibly good? Hotline Miami is an odd beast. A top down shooter with a plot that would make Suda51 smile, in a lot of ways the game presents itself… Read more
I'm hot for Hotline Miami
Having recently played this game, I wish to codify my opinions so that I can later review them. First play-through took me 5 hours. Hotline Miami scratches a very particular itch, the itch that only t… Read more
Shotguns and Shag Carpets
Hotline Miami is a top-down action-adventure game set in the dark criminal underbelly of 1980s Miami. In it you play as an unnamed individual, travelling to specified locations and systemically slaugh… Read more
A realistic look at the 80s featuring masks. Animal masks.
It’s 1989. A red light blinks on your answer machine. You check your messages and you’re asked to go to a certain address to “help out” with various jobs. It’s time to suit up and the most important q… Read more
A cocaine-fueled ascention into madness and depravity....
...or in layman's terms, a simple, but brutally difficult arcade beat-'em-up that's fun for the whole family (not really). Seriously though, while this is a game that harkens back to the full-throttle… Read more
Hotline Miami is a stylistic, gory top-down game, and certainly one of the top games of 2012.
Hotline Miami, compared to the triple-A titles released this year, may seem to pale in contrast. It's pixelated style is reminiscent of 8-bit shooters, and its gameplay is technically quite simple. If… Read more
Violence and fun, oh my!
These kind of games generally don't interest me at all so why did I desire to see what Hotline Miami was all about? Word of mouth whether it's from the brutal violence, the stellar soundtrack or the a… Read more
I was dead and then I died.
H otline Miami is a game set in the late 80s in Miami and is like if the movie Drive were a game on the Gameboy Color that was banned from every acre of land on this planet. Hotline Miami is about ent… Read more
A High Octane and Super Visceral Treat
At first glance Hotline Miami might be easy to over look as some weird short-form over the top gore fest without anything else to offer. Well okay, Hotline Miami is defiantly a short-form super gore f… Read more
Hypnotic violence
It’s 1989, Miami, Florida. You’re at your bachelor pad when the phone rings, seems it’s gone to voice mail. Past neon colored carpets, a sleeping hooker, and flies hovering over left open pizza boxes,… Read more
Masked Mayhem
This game doesn't aim for much, but it achieves what it set out to achieve with spectacular results. Hotline Miami is fast, brutal and cheap (the good kind of cheap - wallet cheap) STORY: Hotline Miam… Read more
A brilliant puzzle-slasher with a thought-provoking story
Hotline Miami is a blast. One of my top 10 for 2012. It is ridiculously fun and rewarding, and excitingly gruesome. It has some of the same hooks as games like Super Meat Boy or Bit-Trip Runner, which… Read more
Basically Perfect
The tightest game design i have seen in a long long time, manages to create an aura of tension, suspense and on the fly strategy while conveying this wonderful sense of motion and killing that got me… Read more
Snack of the Year
Hotline Miami is a top-down puzzle-shooter with very strong visual character and a deadly soundtrack of finely curated deep and dark electronic beats. The super colourful and lovingly animated bit-sty… Read more
Fun AND provocative? Yes, it is possible.
Hotline Miami is an unexpected treat. At first glance it could probably be written off as yet another "retro-inspired" beat-em-up, but when you actually sit down and play it you discover that it's som… Read more
Neon-soaked Madness
There are a lot of similarities between Hotline Miami and my favourite movie of 2011, Drive. Like Drive, Hotline Miami has a celestial electronic-pop feel to its soundtrack, an unsettling level of bru… Read more
A Game That Deserves to be Played
Hotline Miami is, to put it bluntly, one hell of a game that is worth every penny. Now for anyone who doesn't know exactly what this game is it's a top down shooter that (once they get the gamepad sup… Read more
Trip On This
Hotline Miami that takes a very barebones story and wraps it around a few simple gameplay mechanics that have some depth in execution, and then presents them all with a perfectly tuned aesthetic that… Read more
A Grotesquely Beautiful Critique on Violence Entertainment
Hotline Miami wants you to hurt people. With its oversaturated neon colors aesthetic and ambient synth rock, Dennaton Games title wants you to think of violent action flicks such as Scarface and Drive… Read more
Where have you been?
In all honesty , just watch the quick look (if you already haven't) and then buy or pirate (which the developer doesn't seem to mind you doing) the game. I made my mind up and bought it on steam after… Read more
Cocaine is a Hell of a Drug
Okay, so there's obviously been lot of buzz surrounding this game on the gamer side (which is usually a better side for buzz to be on if I remember correctly). Definitively this game takes all of what… Read more
excessive gore and excessive guilt
Hotline Miami made me feel guilty playing it. The last game I felt guilty playing was Nier (all y'all people who played Nier [all 5 of you] know what I mean), in fact. I think if you can make me feel… Read more
Simple, brutal fun regardless of technical issues.
It's a good thing I don't really discuss nor rate games based on narrative, because if I were gonna do that then I'd not know what to make of Hotline Miami. I believe I get the gist of it, but there's… Read more