The Hong Kong Massacre Review
The Hong Kong Massacre: An ultra-violent and uncompromising shooterOnce a genre of niche, the Top View Shooter popularized with the general public with the release of Hotline Miami in 2012, and this wave of violence that swept through the gaming industry has lost none of its power. Players are clamoring for violence and exacerbated difficulty, and Vreski Studio intends to respond to this call with The Hong Kong Massacre ... a tribute to Hong Kong action movies.
TEARS OF A HERO
The Hong Kong Massacre: An ultra-violent and uncompromising shooterThe scenario is often the least of the concerns of a studio developing a Shooter. And for good reason, this genre puts almost everything on its gameplay phases. Nevertheless, The Hong Kong Massacre has a context drawing from a 7th Art which he wants to inherit. Unfortunately, this one turns out to be expeditious and expeditious in the image of his hero, a former police inspector traversing the city in order to avenge the death of his partner. The story plays the second knives just like the staging reduced to its simplest device. The narration is based solely on a few dialogs and cutscenes scattered around the minimalist production, despite a certain cachet at the visual level.
The Hong Kong Massacre: An ultra-violent and uncompromising shooter
The tribute to John Woo, Tsui Hark ... and the other directors who made Hong Kong cinema famous is obvious. The Hong Kong Massacre sets fire to the city’s red light districts and runs through familiar surroundings for all film action enthusiasts. Restaurants, roofs, apartments ... the decor contributes to the atmosphere and their partial destruction during armed clashes greatly accentuates the realism that emanates from the adventure. Under a rain of lead and blood (per hectolitre), the windows, furniture and many other elements shatter while the victims of your vendetta dance to the rhythm of a shotgun beating time.
Without ever taking down the retina, the title of the Vreski studio provides the essentials and bombards with visual effects, and especially pyrotechnics, the poor buggers having dared to venture into this Hong Kong conducive to violence and muscular exchanges.
A BALL IN THE HEAD
The Hong Kong Massacre: An ultra-violent and uncompromising shooterUnbridled action prevails here over any other experience. The Hong Kong Massacre is never done in lace and proves it with a gun in hand. In levels with increasing difficulty, the hero eliminates all the minions present as quickly as possible and with natural ease. And what makes the strength of the genre, namely its simplicity, also makes it its main weakness ... namely the repetitiveness of the game sequences. However, Vreski compensates for this lack of surprise by an omnipresent action and gunfights where survival rhymes with dexterity and tenacity.
The Hong Kong Massacre: An ultra-violent and uncompromising shooter
This Shooter works to make us bite the dust again and again, and we want more. A bullet, a dead man… that’s the credo of The Hong Kong Massacre and we learn it the hard way. Artificial intelligence aims with surgical precision and has extraordinary reflexes, sometimes to the point of giving rise to a touch of frustration. So you have to be creative and use the skills of our avatar wisely to get out alive. Slow motion for a few seconds (Slow Motion) and dodging thus transform a badly engaged situation into a funeral ballet… without forgetting the weapons (Pistol, Shotgun, SMG and Assault rifle) and their improvements without which we cannot spread the good word.
The Hong Kong Massacre: An ultra-violent and uncompromising shooter
The most stubborn, the most daring, the guilty pleasure of The Hong Kong Massacre. All of the levels, and more particularly the boss fights, push anyone to excel in the hope of coming to the end of this experience as an endian. This difficulty, so sought after by a part of the gaming community, is there and stands as a standard for a school of skill. The presence of challenges to complete the levels 100% testifies to this approach. Finish in less than X seconds / minutes, do not use Slow Motion and aim perfectly without spoiling any ammunition ... the apostles of hardcore rub their hands in advance.
The notes
+ Positive points
A vibrant tribute to Hong Kong action cinema
Intense and explosive clashes
Partially destructible decorations
Weapons and upgrades to unlock
A real challenge to take up (challenges, boss fights)
-Negative points
A screenplay and a staging shipped
Omniscient artificial intelligence with (too) sharp reflexes
A notable lack of renewal responsible for a certain repetitiveness
The Hong Kong Massacre sings of his love of Hong Kong action cinema and arcade experiences where difficulty prevails. If the title of Vreski is content to recite the ranges of the Shooter from above without really innovating, the latter does so with attention and generosity. The repetition of the adventure and the omniscience of artificial intelligence still deserved some adjustments. The result is a fun, explosive track to take for what it is ... a pure stress reliever.
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