This game is not great. It's got an arcade-y scoring system but a campaign that isn't that fun to replay. The multiplayer does more with the scoring idea, but was very buggy and empty. When the multiplayer did work, the optimal way to play was very "let player 1 kick them up/slide into them and player 2 blasts them into an environmental hazard."

However, filling out the checklist of every single way you could score a kill is so interesting. The game rewarded curiosity. "Hrm, maybe i'll attach a sticky grenade to this dude, kick him away, do a ground slam with my electro whip, and detonate the explosive while he's up there." "hrm, maybe I'll slide into a guy and shotgun blast him to send him flying into a spike wall." Every time a new finisher name popped-up, you felt smart!
It is certainly a unique shooter with quirky environmental sandbox design that I'll never forget.

360 ☆☆★★★
Finished on Hard difficulty. This friggin' game, man. What a blast. | "It's a murder party, starring me!"

It's like if Painkiller and Gears of War had a loudmouth, obscenity-spewing child - which is to say, it's pretty awesome. The skillshot system is fantastic even if it does lose some of its luster towards the end, and I expected a little more from the weapon selection. But all in all, Bulletstorm is one satisfying, gratuitously violent shooter with some of the funniest lines in gaming history.

It's nice when a game has a clear simple concept, executed well. At it's heart, that's what bulletstorm is. A FPS which focuses on crazy kills and having fun. A bit like a first person gears of war that takes itself even less seriously, bulletstorm puts you through a while fairly short, pretty fun and action packed campaign. The story doesn't matter, it's all about killing enemies in the mos fun ways possible. You can kick enemies and they go flying. You have a leash to pull enemies towards you. Your guns all have a variety of firing modes, some of which are totally crazy too. Best of all, the environment is set up with a bunch of things to help you kill enemies. The main focus of the game is linking all these together to create ever more crazy kills as you work through the campaign or online multiplayer. In many ways it's a breath of fresh air, focusing 100% on fun, and it mostly succeeds. I really enjoy the challenges it gives you, a checklist almost, which encourages you to kill in different ways. At some points though, it does get a bit samey. It's perhaps because the levels all have the same focus. You are either fighting your way through a series or enemies, or holding a room from an enslaught of enemies. This is maybe a weak criticism, as many games are like that, but i did find myself bored at times. With that in mind, i still highly recommend bullet storm. I like to pull it out every now and again and blast through an hour or two in between playing other games. A nice one to have in the collection.