Have you guys ever heard of the term “burned out older brother films.” It's a term to describe a sub-genre of movies that your brother would watch, but your parents wouldn't let you hang out with him in order to watch it. Stuff like Natural born killers, Jarhead, The man who stares at goats, and Etc. basically just movies of your brother trying to remember the glory days of his past but seems to forget and wants to talk about them with you and how shit it was living in it. This includes Hotline Miami 2 wrong number which a game like itself, reminds me of it. Anyways not to bore you, but here’s my honest thoughts on this game.

For one the gameplay stays the same but with a few interesting gimmicks to it. Which I truly fucking hate about it. The idea of levels/stages having gimmicks to him feels weird and off but I can see why the dev wanted to include them. But honestly some of them fall flat or just ruin the flow of the game. I can see why I felt like this since coming from replaying Hotline miami 1 and now playing hotline miami 2 for the first time. It feels off. The only levels I wish they would only keep the gimmicks were probably Evan and the twins. Especially Evan since quite fits his character. Another thing I wanna point out is some of the stage or level design goddamn sucks. Hell some of the levels are just reused and just slapped with a different texture all together.

I for one... I’m not the type of person who plays hotline miami for its story but after replaying it. It’s nice to know the creator generally wanted to write an actual story that is not something that happens left out of the field. Heck the dude made character’s who died in the first one a flesh out story and backstory for all of them in the second, which I gotta respect. But that ending feels like a cop out from the creator, which in his own words just wanted to end the series after two. which is fine. But sad for the fans of this game just wanting more. But hey at least got some fun mod for it.

Hotline miami 2 wrong number, is a game that is a big disappointment to me especially after getting back into it. But do I hate it…No. There's quite a lot of things I see from the fandom that talk about this game. Ether being a big improvement or just one big disappointment. Which is fine. But if there's one thing I hate about this more then.. What I just talked about is forcing my pinky finger on shift from almost the game. Hotline Miami 2 is probably of the the greatest torture game ever made for your pinky.

If their's one things that a like about replaying GTA IV, is that it the only game the series we're you can see rockstar had enough time to polish and filled the in game world with life.

Not only that but also seeing some jokes that probably went over my head or things that still effect modern day America, like post-9/11, war on terror, political-scandals and xenophobia, quite interesting to see. Just to show how much time has past and it's effect are still being dealt with today.

Also I thinks it kinda of funny. When niko makes a rant about about American and modern-day consumerism by saying "It's stupid, Everything is just advertising with nothing to back it up" like modern day rockstar or gta online to be more specific

Modern Warfare 2 (2022) is gotta be one of the funniest Cod games yet. The first mission is killing the Iran general Qasem Soleimani, Cod version of himself, fucking hell he even wears the same outfit He had when taking that picture behind the Iranian flag. It’s goes from stopping a terror attack on american soil to being a rip-off of sicario (movie) halfway through.

Oh god, that level where you cross the Mexican/American border to the US and later commit a house invasion while the game gives you a prompt telling you to “de-escalate” the problem by pointing your gun at civilians is gotta be the funniest shit. I love it.

The Idea of bringing back general shepherds, and shadow companies, made me wonder if the average call of duty fans even remembers them at least. God that shitty twist at the halfway point making graves and his PMC grouo the bad guys is gotta be the most retarded thing yet. Who would have guest the bad guys from the original games would be the villains.

Either way the Gun-Play in this is just like any other call of duty game, the try to at least do something fun with levels to make it feel different but failed once like almost 80% of levels is just run and gun. Oh god don’t even get me started on the stealth mission where you have to run and hide from a shadow company.

All I have to say by finishing it off in this is.…it's gotta be one of the most Pro-war Cod games yet. I view it as a Paul Verhoeven movie where he satirizes the military industrial complex but then I remember. "Oh wait this is fucking call of duty" lmao. I Just gotta ask an actvision dev what the fuck where they smoking when making this. So many levels where you commit war crimes. Anyways 8/10 hope activision keeps on making more stuff like this that just keeps me waiting to buy more Cod games later on.

>Be me
>early 20s fallout fans
>Got into the series a few years ago
>hear about the problems 3 had from a friend who's be playing this franchise for 16 years
>Get game on discount on steam
>wait for download to end
>finish download
>Start up game
>Suffer through one of the worst intro to a game ever made
>finally get out of the vault
>Exit out of game
>ask for steam refund
>realize it's pass the 2 hour mark
>Todd probably drinking away knowing he scam people for millions
>Buy Fallout 4 on discount
>rinse and repeat
Todd howard you did it again