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Bulletstorm for PlayStation 3
Bulletstorm for PlayStation 3 is a first-person shooter in which you become stranded on the planet Stygia as Grayson Hunt. Together with Ishi Sato, you try to escape gangs, mutants and dangerous creatures. The story revolves around revenge and survival, with coarse language and exaggerated violence. During the campaign, you follow a route through ruined holiday resorts, industrial sites and other parts of the abandoned world.
Combat focuses on how you defeat an opponent. An energy leash pulls enemies towards you, while a kick or slide sends them the other way. The environment contains obstacles and hazards you can use in an attack. Combinations earn Skillshot points. This makes it worthwhile to vary your weapons and first examine what surrounds a group of enemies, rather than repeating the same shots.
You spend your points at Dropkits on ammunition and upgrades. Special shots change what a weapon can do and open up new combinations. Alongside the solo campaign, the original PS3 game includes Echoes challenges, where you replay short sections for a higher score. Online features are not offered as guaranteed to work. This description covers the original release; Limited Edition packaging does not promise usable bonus codes, and additions from Full Clip Edition are not included as standard on this disc.
Region and language
Our PlayStation 3 games are European editions and come with a Dutch or English box, unless stated otherwise. By default, you receive the version for the European market. We note it in the product details if the region is different or the box is in another language. In almost all cases, the game is playable at least in English, and often in the other five common European languages too.
Manual
Bulletstorm for PlayStation 3 includes the manual unless the product title states otherwise. If the booklet is missing, the title says “No Manual”. This lets you see before ordering whether the game comes with a manual.
The manuals included with our games usually contain at least English and often around six European languages. The exact languages vary by edition, so Dutch is not always included. The booklet explains the controls and the main rules. You can use it to check how to control the game, which actions are available and how its different features work.
The history of Bulletstorm
People Can Fly developed Bulletstorm in collaboration with Epic Games. Electronic Arts released it in 2011 for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC. The Polish developer had previously created Painkiller and worked on the PC version of Gears of War. For Bulletstorm, the team used Unreal Engine 3 and again chose fast first-person combat, this time with a prominent scoring system based on how you tackle enemies.
The Skillshot design gave weapons and the environment a shared role. An enemy was not just a target, but the start of a combination involving a kick, a leash movement and a dangerous obstacle. The developers built Echoes around repeating these encounters. A quicker route could earn more time points, while a carefully prepared combination could yield extra Skillshot points. Finding a better balance made a familiar fight interesting again on the next attempt.
The campaign placed these systems in a story about Grayson and Ishi on Stygia. Its tone differed from the sober military shooters of the same period through dark humour and deliberate exaggeration. Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition later appeared for newer platforms. That rerelease is separate from this original PlayStation 3 version, whose campaign and Echoes form the basis described here.
Similar games for PlayStation 3
Crysis 2 on PlayStation 3 gives you Nanosuit camouflage and protection to open battles differently. Both games let you combine weapons and positions. Bulletstorm focuses more strongly on moving enemies with kicks and the energy leash, after which the environment and your shot combine to earn a named Skillshot and points.
Far Cry 3 on PlayStation 3 combines shooting and stealth in a tropical open world. You choose routes between outposts and story missions. Bulletstorm follows a more clearly defined path through its story areas. Freedom mainly lies in how you fight each encounter: you seek combinations and environmental hazards to achieve a higher score.
BioShock on PlayStation 3 lets you combine firearms with Plasmids, allowing different attacks to reinforce one another. That experimentation will feel familiar in Bulletstorm. BioShock ties combat more closely to searching for supplies and investigating Rapture’s history. Bulletstorm emphasises fast movement, launching enemies and immediately visible rewards for creative attacks.
Killzone 2 on PlayStation 3 also offers a story campaign with first-person combat. Weapons and movement feel heavy, and firefights use cover. Bulletstorm often has you move forward, slide and kick instead. The scoring system judges your attack technique, so keeping an opponent alive longer can sometimes enable a better combination.
Resistance 3 on PlayStation 3 has an arsenal of unusual weapons and secondary firing functions. Both shooters encourage you to try a different tool for a new situation. Resistance mainly uses this within a survival journey across occupied America. Bulletstorm makes the individual attack sequence and the score it produces much more explicitly into a goal.
