HARD BULLET

I think I have played enough of the game to understand what it's all about and can write a review. Hard Bullet is essentially VR Max Payne crossed with old school John Woo films, a distant precursor to John Wick if you want to be very reductive about it. The game itself in its current phase is essentially just another physics wave based sandbox game - veterans of the VR market will know that the PCVR landscape is built on the corpses of hundreds of games with that exact genre tag, few remembered fondly, most lost to the ether forever. Lets forget about the curse of those genre tags for now and focus on the actual game. At time of writing, the game is still in early alpha and the main gameplay loop is that you load into a sequence of maps where you endure increasing waves of opponents, gaining experience and money to purchase a large arsenal of firearms which you can use in the game. The enemies pose basically no threat and even getting shot directly several tens of times will not kill you. The AI is very simplistic and as the saying goes, "more A than I". All of this would normally deter a player from engaging with the game, however the whole premise is that you are able to live out the fantasy that you're the protagonist of a John Wick film. The game has very competent physics which allows you to interact with the world in a myriad of ways, all to dispatch the waves of enemies sent against you. You can release the opponents magazine while they're firing and beat them to death with it. You can judo-style flip opponents, wield and throw a variety of melee and environmental weapons, all in service of this protagonist feeling... ...and for the most part, it works. I think that alone is quite a good outcome, but it's clear that there is a significant amount of targeted polish that is required for the game to leave Early Access and become a game worthy of its price tag. I say all this because the closest real comparison to game feel is Ultrakill. The game offers you tons of interesting and unique mechanical choices that sit in parallel with just playing the game like an IGN critic. You can play Hard Bullet like a MILSIM player, sit behind cover and clear all the waves in a couple of seconds without breaking a sweat or facing any material threat. The whole point is that you do the fun things because they're available to you and they're fun, rather than for a direct tangible gameplay advantage. Unfortunately the game does miss the mark in a couple of areas. First of all, the enemies pose zero threat to the player. There needs to be some mechanical incentive to actually play the game, because at present beyond the first hour of turning your opponents into foam noodles and beating eachother to death with them, there's no incentive to, well, do anything. Returning to the Ultrakill comparison, there are tangible mechanical benefits beyond "fun" when you pull off well polished maneuvers and combos. Enemies kill you very fast in Ultrakill, meanwhile in Hard Bullet all enemies feel like they have been given nerf guns and you're the only one with a loaded firearm. A second major flaw are the stages or "arenas" in combination with the AI. Because the AI simply goes towards you and fires in line of sight, the stages require you to actively manage the AI to make them go to places and do the things that set up the fun mechanical gameplay features the game wants you to do. The maps are simply too small and too dense, while also not having much to do in them because the AI is not smart enough to challenge the gameplay. Ultimately I think the game is... fine. There's a significant amount of technical competence on display but the game needs to have its core gameplay loop revised to give it enough bite - enough content to actually make it replayable in the same way that Ultrakill or Max Payne is. Without some form of legitimate challenge, without better AI, without more thoughtfully constructed stages, there's not enough in this game to be more than just a tech demo. If it can't figure out these issues, then I fear that this game will end up like every other VR Action Sandbox game that came before it. I sincerely hope the devs the best as this game has such a strong technical foundation that only minor changes could elevate it to something that really shines. Edit: Having seen the new City Mode update, I am quite encouraged by the direction of the game. An actual gameplay mode with semi-linear exploration is perfect and I am excited to see where it goes. I am slightly wary that this is now stepping into the same niche as the highly anticipated Gunman Contracts, which although lacks the same overall design still has a lot of overlap (gun-fu, physical interactions etc.). I will continue to follow the development of Hard Bullet with keen interest and see how it develops. I do slightly disagree with the roadmaps inclusion of new weapons, which I firmly believe should be left on the chopping block until after the base game is already fully completed to 1.0 standard, as there are more than enough variety of firearms while other areas of development are comparatively lacking.

I REALLY wanted to like Hard Bullet, but honestly the game feels borderline unplayable. The controls feel clunky and unintuitive. There’s no way to sprint, crouch/jump are awkwardly bound to the same joystick used for looking around, L3 and R3 don’t seem to even do anything, and the game doesn't explain how to even open the menu. Between all of the awkward holstering, unreliable grabbing and sluggish movement, I spent more time struggling with the controls than actually fighting. Trying to interact with weapons is where I decided to drop the game entirely. Picking guns up off the floor is frustrating as half the time I grab the wrong item, or the weapon gravitates toward my hand only to then fly off behind me into the ceiling or disappear altogether. Some guns would randomly eject magazines without me pressing anything and infuriatingly I can't remotely pick up ammo, so I have to awkwardly crouch down to grab it while being shot at. Trying to grab weapons from enemies bodies is even worse. Just like the ammunition, you can’t pull them to your hand like normal weapons, so I tried reaching for them but my hand just grabs the body instead, even when the weapon is clearly highlighted.

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I am disappointed in myself for buying this. The AI is.. wow, I mean it's real bad. They are far too dumb. Some of the gun audio is awful. They add things to the game no one asked for. A lot of bugs! Especially annoying trying to find the AI that got stuck somewhere in the map.. did not expect the need to play hide and seek with the AI... It's a game that came out in 2020. For being that long in early access it's quite the shame to see it still be in the state it is in at the moment. To anyone wanting to get this, don't. The trailer may look good, but that's all that is good about this game. I'd only recommend this if they actually fix the game, add things the community actually asks for, make the AI somewhat competent, etc.

Cannot recommend it. The game is super janky and most the controls don't work. It seems to struggle hard with the index's grip detection not knowing when you grab something or let it go. Throwing items is impossible unless you have aim assist on and are in slow motion where the game basically throws things for you. For some reason your body can interact with things you pick up such has holding a gun low can sometimes make you stand on it and fly up into the sky. Enemies also have strange physics and often grabbing someone will cause them to push you away or move in odd directions. All the videos you have seen online and in the games trailers are played in slow mo and sped up in post. Its really deceptive and does not reflect the actual game. The physics do not allow for a lot of the stuff they show. That doesn't even cover the fact the gameplay loop is pretty bad and repetitive. its a bunch of arenas that spawn a few enemies at a time and every wave gets more armored and armed, they will just stand far away from you and shoot until they run out of ammo and then just stand there most the time. There are a lot of other games that have done that concept better.

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Good game. A little buggy, but it only bugs out if you want it to. It’s playable and still in alpha. Only get it if you want a John Wick simulator. If you want a gun simulator, get Hot Dogs, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades (H3VR). If you want a realistic blood simulator, get Blood Trail. If you want a sandbox game, get Bonelab.

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