Blue Estate

Blue Estate

released on Oct 14, 2013

Blue Estate

released on Oct 14, 2013

Blue Estate is a darkly funny on-rails shooter ! Designed from the ground up to exploit the gyroscopic features of the new PlayStation4 controller, and Kinect moves sensor on Xbox One, Blue Estate offers slick wit and punishing violence through a genuinely fun and intuitive control system, all set in an eye-popping technicolor mob world. While experiencing the smoothness of motion control in a rail shooter, using the unique motion sensors capabilities of the PlayStation4 and Xbox One, the player will enter a fight for his life against the most absurd and dangerous enemies, ranging from scar covered fight-to-the-death champions to Tony's own hair and Chihuahuas that are too happy to see you. You're given a series of primary and secondary weapons to help make your way through the load of hilariously perilous missions. These will come in handy defeating the bosses who'll try to end your game and your life. But sometimes firepower isn't enough, so think before shooting and use cover to prepare your strategy, reload often, and try not to get turned into grated cheese. A killing spree is always better when shared, and that's why Blue Estate offers the opportunity for a second player to join the fun, through a cooperative mode where every headshot counts to show who's the best trigger in da house!


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I paid $4 for it, and I got my money's worth. Let's be real here, it's a dumb fun ride. There's not much to say, it's a competent rail shooter.

Ahh... On-rails shooters. Although this pokes fun with plenty of movie references, old and new, the level of humor stays consistent and variates aplenty throughout the high-octanic shooting scenes. I recommend it warmly for genre fans as well as movie nerds!

It took me only three hours to finish the game in one day but it felt like a chore from the opening ten minutes.

NOT GOOD!

Reminded me more of Virtua Cop than Time Crisis or House of the Dead, the biggest problem with this game is that the levels are just waaaaaaay too long. Rail shooters should be fast-paced frantic affairs but every level in this game stops you way too many times, and when you consider the game is very, very easy it just makes this game a slog to finish, even if its only about 2-3 hours long. The frequent QTEs don't really add anything to the game other than being an annoyance and you can just tell the writers thought they were being really, really funny. It does feel really polished which is surprising but the levels themselves are so boring that I can't really recommend it unless you are desperate for light-gun options.

Blue Estate is a rail shooter that misses the thing that makes them most enjoyable, a well made lightgun which we really haven't had since the PS2 and Xbox and likely not something the vast majority of PC players will have. You will aim your mouse cursor over 100s of enemies in each of the game's seven levels trying to shoot them before a targeting reticle films up to tell you that they are about to hit you, enemies die in one shot to the head, with a nut shot, or with a few body hits. Story wise the characters and jokes would be like playing House of the Dead Overkill if it was more offensive, none of the jokes landed, and it wasn't a homage to a film style. There are only seven levels and the game is short but the levels each overstay their welcome and their are three badly designed and long boss fights, luckily the game is so easy that it is unlikely that you will die and have to replay a level (I don't actually know where it restarts you if you die as I never ran out of health). The game will require you to push an arrow key or swipe the mouse in a direction to beat QTE events, knock back thrown weapons, or to deal with frequent annoyances like your hair falling in your eyes or throwing off a dog that is humping your leg. There are a few moments where you can hold the reload button to take cover but there is never any real reason to do this, a scoring system that really doesn't matter, and in each mission you will find a second more powerful weapon that I ended up never liking more than the default pistol as I only went for headshots and they had a much longer reload time, some of them just didn't have enough ammo or shot too slowly to even be viable in some situations.