![]() ![]() You might have carefully planned it this way, or it could have just been dumb luck. This all happens in a wild, bloody flash of brutality. Then you grab the gun, pirouette around a corner, and take out another two guys with one shot. You grab the knife he dropped and throw it at his friend who’s just rushed into the room with a shotgun, killing him instantly. You burst through a door, knocking a goon on his back, then finish him off with a volley of punches. But then you nail it, and it feels amazing. Hitting the R key to restart is a fundamental part of the game’s savage, staccato rhythm. ![]() You’ll die constantly as you learn the layout of the level and the positions of its enemies. You clear a level by killing everyone in it, but the journey there is hard-earned. It is, as before, a puzzle game disguised as a breathlessly fast top-down shooter. Hotline Miami 2 is a sequel that, largely (and ironically considering its subject matter), plays it safe. Released in 2012 by two-man team Dennaton Games, Hotline Miami turned the thin narrative of a hallucinating hitman carrying out assassination missions for a weird coterie of gang bosses, into an aggressively trippy indie classic. Of course, the same could be said for the first game. Playing with a good set of headphones, beating Russian gangsters with baseball bats to the throbbing beat, you can’t help but be hypnotised by its decadent, exhilarating cocktail of masochistic, rapid-fire action. Drenched in gaudy neon and soundtracked by a playlist of aggressive, pounding techno, it’s an intoxicating assault on the senses. There’s no attempt to rationalise or apologise for its extreme violence. H otline Miami 2 is a game about killing people as stylishly, efficiently, and brutally as possible. ![]()
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