Bulletstorm and Marvel vs Capcom 3: Murder Space Mutants!

Bulletstorm

It’s hard to say what’s more fun: leashing a flesh-eating mutant then watching as your team-mate tosses him into a cactus, or having your team-mate shoot an enemy in the crotch then stepping aside as you saunter in and kick him in the head.

These options and many, many more are all at your disposal as you assume the role of former pisshead space pirate Grayson Hunt in the most imaginative shooter FHM’s seen since all that rock’n’roll knee-sliding in last year’s Vanquish. The fulcrum for the carnage is a new skillshot gameplay system, rewarding combo moves with the unlocking of increasingly large weapons. But they’re not just the FPS staples you might expect, with bouncing bombs, a shotgun that runs on compressed gas and the aforementioned leash – a sort of electrically charged whip – at your disposal.

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Marvel vs Capcom 3

It’s been nearly 20 years, but FHM will admit that developing a semblance of mastery over the Street Fighter 2 controls only to have our little sister wade in and hand us our arse with random button-bashing still hurts. But one look at the character roster for Marvel vs Capcom 3 makes us want to get jacked on E-numbers and do it all again. In fact, the whole game plays like your serotonin’s in hyperdrive, as combo moves send the screen into dazzling bouts of flash, bang, wallop.

With three-on-three tag team action, tossing the Marvel characters you do know (Thor, Iron Man, Wolverine, Spidey) in with the Capcom-ers you probably don’t is an excellent and often hilarious blend of pick ’n’mix violence. And for the cack-handed, ‘Simple’ mode distils the combos and moves-within-moves so effectively that you can jump straight in and make the fancy stuff happen.

From the March 2011 issue of FHM India.