Electronic Arts Bulletstorm PlayStation3 Standard 72650 (PS3)

Bulletstorm (PS3) PlayStation3 StandardGenre: Legacy SystemsMANUFACTURER'S DESCRIPTION A brand-new and unique First Person Shooter IP from the teams that brought you Gears of War and Painkiller. Epic Games People Can Fly and Electronic Arts present Bulletstorm an over-the-top shooter that introduces signature ‘kill with skill’ gameplay.Set in a futuristic utopia an elite peacekeeping force thwarts the rumblings of civil war. But deception within the ranks has caused two members of the most feared unit Dead Echo to strike out on their own.Now washed-up mercenaries turned space pirates Grayson Hunt and Ishi Sato’s latest quest for a quick buck goes south. Stumbling upon their ex-commander’s warship the Ulysses Grayson engages this behemoth head-on. Outmanned and outgunned his only option is to ram the Ulysses in a suicidal bid at redemption.Narrowly surviving a crash landing and now stranded on the abandoned paradise planet of Stygia Grayson and Ishi find themselves surrounded by hordes of mutants and flesh-eating gangs. They survive on two objectives: get off the planet alive and exact revenge on the man who sent them there.Taking the role of Grayson Hunt wield over-the-top combat moves and some of the most uniquely innovative weapons ever seen in a first person shooter that all feed into Bulletstorm’s™ distinct ‘skillshot’ system for unprecedented levels of frantic gameplay. Unleash the Bulletstorm!Preview:The facts behind Bulletstorm read like a recipe for excitement among hardcore gamers: first off it’s an all-new first-person shooter a rare occurrence indeed; and then there’s its development pedigree with Epic Games (Gears Of War) and People Can Fly (Painkiller) taking the reins jointly. As if that wasn’t enough it goes out of its way to be as gleefully and gloriously over-the-top as it possibly can. The word ‘generic’ isn’t in Bulletstorm’s vocabulary. Story-wise Bulletstorm casts you as Grayson Hunt an ex-mercenary turned space-pirate whose spaceship collides with the military ship it is battling and both crews end up stranded on Stygia a once-paradisiacal planet now abandoned and overgrown. Teaming up with the cyborg Ishi Sato and unwillingly Trishka Novak from the rival ship you embark on a mad quest to escape the planet by overcoming all manner of enemies which even include mutated boss-plants. Bulletstorm’s gameplay eschews such mundane concepts as mere survival: the game is all about killing with style. Luckily you have an unprecedented set of tools designed to let you do that. The weaponry for example is simply outrageous: the Boneduster for example is a quad-barrel shotgun the Flail Gun fires two grenades chained together which can wrap themselves around enemies before exploding while the Bouncer fires bouncing bombs that you can kick into enemies. All the weapons have chargeable alternate-fire modes that render them even more deadly – for example the Boneduster alt-fires a volley of flaming bullets