Mario Paint comes to mind-not only for its spartan nature, but also because it is outmoded and proud of it. Like its corresponding game, the map editor is barebones. In an air conditioned van-super-appropriate for the getaway smash ‘n’ grab feel for the burgeoning series-developer Dennis Wedin walked passengers through how Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number’s map editor works. Not just violence, but the embrace of simpler games, simpler times, and if what it showed at E3 at publisher Delvolver Digital’s event in the Hooters parking lot (really) is any indication, just plain simplicity as well. Pick it up now for $9 at G2A, it’s worth it.Hotline Miami is making it cool for kids to love violence again. But the game is fun and often times, that’s all that matters. Hotline Miami 2 graphically isn’t for everyone.
It’s a slightly unfair advantage, but serves to balance out the leap in difficulty that comes with Hotline Miami 2’s more sizable maps. Pushing the lock-on button instantly targets the enemy closest to your cursor if the enemy is outside your range of vision, a red arrow appears to point you to him until you either undo lock-on or track him down. Like the last game, the music is the fuel that drove me forward into each new challenge – and in Hotline Miami 2, there are plenty.Īll in all, the game is great and what saves it from being overly frustrating are a few new ways of dealing with distant threats: most notably an improved lock-on system. I think it’s even better than the last game’s, which is saying a lot considering the originally was widely raved. I can go on and on about the gameplay, but one of the more prominent features of the game that deserves a spotlight is the wicked soundtrack. Still, this game’s genre demands that level of difficulty and for some players, it’s far from a downside. There were several points when clearing even half an area became a painstaking task, and in a game where all of that progress can be destroyed in an instant by an off-screen enemy with a shotgun, it can put a lot of stress on the player. However, a drawback to these large-levels is that they make the game seem a little too difficult. This is an interesting change of pace that demands a new, more cautious approach.
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Where Hotline Miami 1 had you shooting, stabbing, and bludgeoning enemies in a series of small rooms and hallways, Hotline Miami 2 isn’t afraid to drop you into vast, open areas, where danger lurks outside the boundaries of your screen. What’s changed most is the scale of the levels. The game carries on the same top-down twitch-shooter gameplay and ultra-violent retro art style of the original. There are a few truly frustrating moments, but that sense of flow is still here it’s a relentless, rhythmic, and brutal game of killing fast, and dying even faster. The Review: Hotline Miami 2: Wrong NumbersHotline Miami 2: Wrong Numbers is a more ambitious follow-up to its predecessor. You can get it right now at for $9.27, a whopping 45% off its usual price. This week, we’ve chosen the popular action-puzzler, Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Numbers. Every week, Team Liquid will supply you with their pick for the G2A Game of the Week, which you can buy at an extremely discounted rate thanks to the G2A Weekly Sale.