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Hellbound Free Download Unfitgirl Let’s make a list of things we want in a ’90s-style retro shooter: we’ll need gross demons that explode into gibs, guns that don’t need reloading, ludicrous running speed, and a heavy metal version of Hell to traverse as we’re ventilating our meat puppet enemies. Hellbound, out today from Saibot Studios, manages to check every box on this list, but still misses the mark by a wide margin and, for all its earnestness, winds up being a shallow and unremarkable experience. Hellbound is a violent first-person shooter that looks like it was made for a Law & Order episode about violent first-person shooters. There are the enemies that come apart like cherry pies dropped from a third storey window. There’s bright orange lava and sludgy biker metal guitar riffs. And there’s the gruff, basso profondo protagonist who calls everything “motherfuckers.” The idea is to recapture the joy of ’90s FPS games that did the same things, and Hellbound isn’t shy about tattooing its influences onto the worryingly vascular bicep that would have been covered by its torn-off sleeve. “Time to get serious,” growls hero Hellgore, as you head into a huge arena to face a swarm of monsters, in an open and clearly loving homage to Serious Sam. Unfortunately, Hellbound only manages the most shallow pastiche of the classic shooters it loves so dearly. “Warning! This game is being made like it was the ’90s. Some people may find it too difficult”, a splash screen advises as you fire it up. Unfitgirl.COM SEXY GAMES

Difficulty here translates to an inadequate checkpoint system and enemies that can spawn behind you and kill you in a single hit (especially as you often won’t have full health due to Hellbound’s ’90s-style non-refilling health meter – not an issue in itself, but one that compounds problems elsewhere). The effect is annoying rather than engaging, and it’s emblematic of Hellbound’s failure to fully understand and emulate its influences. While we’re on the topic of difficulty, for all its ‘hardcore’ posturing, Hellbound’s brief campaign took me just under three hours to finish, and the end arrives abruptly with an arena showdown with a large but slow-moving boss that I managed to take down on my second attempt. Hellbound is light on content: there are a total of seven levels, one boss fight, only three enemy types (though grunts can wield different guns), and six weapons (if you’re feeling generous and count your fists). There are spots in a couple of levels – Dead Forest in particular – that stand out as visually striking, but in general the environments are over-lit and covered in muddy, flat-looking textures. While shooting feels good, the sparse selection of weapons contains nothing unique or creative. You have a machine gun, a shotgun, a better machine gun, a rocket launcher, and (curiously) two melee options, neither of which are particularly useful. There’s damnably little else to comment on in Hellbound.

Some people may find it too difficult

The brief campaign is accompanied by a survival mode, which drops you into one of the Serious Sam-style horde onslaught segments you encounter periodically in the levels. While Hellbound is derivative to a fault and sparse, it must be said that its macho bluster and hardcore posturing don’t come across as even slightly cynical. It’s clearly the work of people who unreservedly love the games they’re trying to evoke. The trouble is that it’s a very childlike love, one I’ve certainly felt myself. One of the key reasons games like Doom and Quake and Duke Nukem 3D have stuck in the memories of Gamers of a Certain Age is because they were forbidden to many of us. The guns, the gore, the foul language, and the silly biker Satanism marked these games as firmly off limits to us while we were growing up. The fact they were forbidden gave them a kind of mystical power in our imaginations, and playing them felt like an act of religious and moral subversion. Hellbound is chasing that specific high, even though there’s no subversion left to be mined from demon guts or drop D guitar riffs. Nevertheless, Hellbound is fixated on these largely superficial accoutrements, and neglects to consider the masterful design achievements that were the true magic at the core of its influences: the careful interplay of Doom’s enemies, or the level design wizardry Duke Nukem 3D pulled off with its 2.5D Build engine. Zombieland VR Headshot Fever

Without this, and by explicitly referencing the giants, Hellbound falls into the Soulslike trap of reminding players of something they’d rather be doing. In a day and age when you could be playing Ion Fury, Wrath: Aeon of Ruin, or pretty much anything New Blood is making, Hellbound simply doesn’t make enough of a case for itself. Like the great 90s FPS titles that came before it, Hellbound wastes no time in its setup. You are Hellgore and you are angry. An army of demons has descended and killed everyone Hellgore knew and loved, so now it’s time for vengeance. As the Steam page for Hellbound rightly says, if you’re looking for a deep story, you’ve come to the wrong place. Hellbound is refreshingly simple. It doesn’t have any of the needless text screeds or backstory that Doom Eternal indulges in. It’s just you, some guns, some demons, and figuring out a way to make those two things interact. Hellgore himself is likable enough, but there’s something slightly off about his performance. It’s meant to echo the dry, “witty” one-liners of protagonists like Caleb from Blood: Fresh Supply or Duke Nukem. Voice actor Artie Widgery doesn’t quite pull it off, though. He sounds more like a concerned father reading out unsavory texts his son has received at school than a vengeful demon slayer. Hellbound is going for a sort of gleeful 90s-style “badass” tone, but the excessive swearing can come across as a touch desperate.

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A gentleman is someone who could play the bagpipes but doesn’t. The same philosophy extends to swearing. It’s not cool when it’s this frequent. Thankfully, you’ll be too busy gleefully shotgunning demons in the face to care about Hellgore’s shortcomings. To put it simply, the core gameplay loop of Hellbound is excellent. Developer Saibot Studios clearly understands what makes 90s shooters so cathartic and satisfying. For a game like this to work, the guns have to feel almost illegally good. There needs to be a kick delivered by a size 30 boot with every shotgun blast, and every rocket fired should feel like a hundred atomic bombs. This is something Hellbound pulls off with aplomb. Hellbound takes its visual and auditory cues from Doom 2016 and Doom Eternal, but it doesn’t really resemble those games. The complexity is much lower here, and that’s no bad thing. There are no weapon upgrades in Hellbound, no skill trees, and no hidden ability collectibles. Hellbound is content to execute its ideas well instead of innovating. Each level of the campaign gives you a semi-open environment to explore, and while you won’t find more than armor, health, or weapons as secrets, it still feels great to stumble across something hidden. The levels are effectively just environments to facilitate the core gameplay, but when that gameplay is this fulfilling, that’s no bad thing. Zombie Army 4 Dead War Deluxe Edition

Unfortunately, Hellbound’s excellent core gameplay is majorly hamstrung by one issue: there’s just not enough of it. Emulating 90s shooters is all well and good, but 90s shooters usually came with fairly lengthy campaigns spanning multiple episodes. By contrast, Hellbound’s is pathetically short, spanning 7 levels and less than 2 hours of gameplay overall. You can replay levels and look for secrets or try to improve your time, of course, but that doesn’t excuse Hellbound’s shocking brevity. As I drew near the end of Hellbound’s campaign, I thought to myself “oh, good, I’m near the end of the first world”. Little did I know the game was almost over. There is a survival mode that tries to bolster Hellbound’s meager showing, but it feels at odds with the core gameplay. First-person shooters like this should be power fantasies. Putting absurdly overpowered weaponry in the player’s hands and tasking them with slaying the armies of Hell does not gel well with survival. On the one hand, Hellgore feels like an unstoppable warrior; on the other, like he’s scrambling to escape insurmountable hordes of demons. The survival mode is fine in terms of enabling the core gameplay, but it doesn’t feature the sense of momentum and progress that this type of game really needs. As such, you’re left with a 2-hour campaign that is nominally replayable, but shallow and all too brief.

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Exploring Hellbound’s 7 levels does manage to engage, despite the campaign’s brevity. The maps are satisfyingly open-ended and full of secrets, with lots of opportunities to leap over level geometry and facilitate natural-feeling exploration. There’s a pleasing sense of momentum in each level; switches open doors for just long enough for you to scrabble through them, so you’ll need to be on your toes as you move. The open-ended level design also helps to make encounters feel fair, too. Encounters are thoughtfully designed around open space, giving you plenty of opportunities to outmaneuver and outpace your enemies. Hellbound does bring across one of the biggest bugbears of 90s FPS games, though: key hunting. Doors and devices in Hellbound’s levels sometimes need red, green, or yellow keys to operate. These keys can be found by exploring the level thoroughly. That’s fine, but the architecture and visual style of Hellbound’s levels is quite samey. This leads to key hunts often taking a long time as you navigate labyrinthine and confusing level design. At one point, Hellgore makes a joke about hunting for keys, wondering why he can’t just blow up a door instead. I found myself wondering the same thing numerous times across Hellbound’s campaign. It’s a shame Hellbound is so brief and insubstantial, because what is here is massively encouraging. Saibot Studios knows its way around a shooter, and its love of Doom 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim Switch NSP 

Quake, and every other 90s shooter is etched on its tattered sleeve here. If the gameplay wasn’t fun, Hellbound wouldn’t feel like it ended just as it was getting started. Sadly, it’s hard to recommend it in its current state. In order to justify Hellbound’s existence, Saibot needs to add at least another world of campaign levels and perhaps a challenge mode or some kind of supplementary story mode. As it is, Hellbound is simply not enough game. Saibot’s game feels more like a proof-of-concept than an actual title. 90s FPS games weren’t just great because of their core loops. They also innovated on their mechanics as levels went on, introducing new weapons and new ways to fight old enemies. Hellbound’s enemy variety is paltry, just like its weapon variety and campaign length. I counted eight enemy types, and that’s being generous; five of those are simply “demon that uses one of Hellgore’s weapons”. In the end, Hellbound’s campaign is short, but it starts to become repetitive towards its end due to the sheer lack of enemy variety. Hellbound manages to successfully enter the pantheon of retro FPS greats by its core gameplay loop alone. The shooting is a devilishly good time, and it never gets tiring separating a demon’s top half from its bottom half with the triple shotgun. Unfortunately, the fun is over before it begins, and dedicated shooter fans will be left wondering where Hellbound went and when it was supposed to actually start.

A lot of the things found in 1990s FPS games are present in Hellbound. The game’s level design is dependent on players finding different colored keys to open their respective doors, and there are also items that mimic heatlh pickups, armor shards, and Quad Damage from id Software’s Quake franchise. It is very apparent that Hellbound is a love letter to this era of the FPS from the moment you drop into the first level. The enemies in Hellbound are also heavily inspired by those found in the Doom series, with similar AI powering their movements. Bunny hopping and rocket jumps are also viable gameplay mechanics. Hellbound will spark some nostalgic feelings for 90s FPS fans, also invoking some references to Blood, Duke Nukem 3D, and Wolfenstein 3D. While Hellbound stays true to its 1990s roots in many ways, the game was built for PCs in 2020. As such, there are some things about the game that simply could not be done in 1996. One of my favorite parts of Hellbound is how most of the final battles in each level don’t involve just one big dude, but instead feature an onslaught of enemies. The final battle in the game may feature a big demon, but there are also a ton of bad guys that Hellgore must destroy in order to take down the final boss. Various maps in the game will end with massive waves of enemies that flood the environment.

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