The title "Huntdown" is pretty boring and led me to believe that this was probably a low-budget, minimum effort game that would probably be an okay experience but worthwhile because of its co-op feature. I was very wrong! In reality it is a very fun and extremely challenging arcade style side scrolling shooter. The pixel art is highly detailed, the writing and art style are evocative of 80s tongue in cheek action flicks, and the design of the game mechanics are solid with responsive controls. With a wide variety of limited-ammo weapons to pick up in addition to your standard infinite ammo gun and cooldown-limited subweapon, there are lots a ways to approach the levels. Each of the three characters even has a different main weapon and subweapon to give the player a bit of a freedom to choose their playstyle.

Even on Normal mode, the game ramps up the difficulty very quickly and by the end of the game it's going to take a lot of trial and error. Luckily the game is fairly generous with checkpoints and each level isn't that long either, so there is no frustration around having to play big chunks of levels over and over again. Some of the boss fights were really interesting, and overall my wife and I really enjoyed the game. A short experience, but highly recommended.

When it's fun? It's insanely fun man. Just mowing down row after row after row of enemies. And the art direction is some of the most impressive I've seen in a game. But my god it has this problem where the game gets so hard it moved past "challenging" and just went into bullshit territory. Not helped by the fact that a lot of the game's bosses have 2 (or even 3) stages and if you die you have to restart the whole thing.

Again the game is legit fun when it wants to be but at the same time I really would only recommend it to someone if they got in on sale (like me) or played it on easy difficulty.

That's a great game. A true love letter to Contra and Metal Slug, but with its own character instead of feeling like a copycat. Graphics, soundtrack, controls are all superb. The only thing I didn't like is how bullet sponge-y the bosses are. Most of them have two phases and you can spent minutes fighting them only to start all over everytime you lose. Especially the last boss is some major bs and I didn't even care to beat it. I don't have patience for frustration in my life anymore.
Otherwise it's a great game.

Прекрасная игра в стиле ран-энд-ган. Очень визуально и по геймплею (почти) напоминает Contra: Hard Corps. Почему почти, потому, что здесь темп игры чуть ниже, и противники не умирают с одного выстрела. Здесь есть даже система укрытий, за стенками или за бочками. Немного здесь и от игр в жанре бит-эм-ап, ближний бой, хп у противников. Стильно выглядит, играется очень приятно. Звучит игра очень круто. Местами битвы с боссами очень непростые. Если вы выросли во времена Sega и крутых боевиков тех времен - эта игра определенно Вам понравится. Плюс как положено в игре есть кооп на двоих.