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.