The Detroit After

THE SHORT REVIEW: A violent Hotline Miami knock-off with game-play almost as good but a worse plot. Short but sweet for the price. 7 out of 10. THE LONG REVIEW: "You are a robot. You have to kill everyone" Those are the words used to describe this game...whilst it might be accurate, let's be honest: It isn't exactly exciting or deep as far as a description goes. Having finished the game it is about as much worth as the story deserves. Basically this is evil Robocop meets the game-play of Hotline Miami, as a nasty corporation invents a robot and then sends it out to kill and destroy their competitors. It's not exactly compelling or particularly well-written, and is presented in pretty underwhelming static graphics. As far as the narrative goes it's nothing more than passable filler in-between bouts of visceral action. When it comes to the game-play it is on much more solid ground, as it essentially cribs the entire mechanics from Hotline Miami and makes it a bit more forgiving and violent. If you are unfamiliar with those games: You go into a top-down level and are given a variety of weapons to kill all the enemies through stealth or brute-force. One hit can kill you, so it becomes a tense affair as you use everything at hand, be it shooting, stabbing or environmental hazards such as crushing them to death in a door, to succeed. A mixture of leaderboards for combo kills scored through a level and the masochistic streak of "git gud ya scrub" type players gave the original template a certain appeal. Where The Detroit After slightly deviates from it is by giving you a modest amount of hits before you die, so it isn't quite as brutal a challenge by comparison. To those expecting a tough experience this maybe lessens it somewhat, though if you hated it before for this reason then it is more palatable now. It is savage fun and still manages to keep most of Hotline Miamis flavour, so anyone looking for a copy of its design, and who isn't super-fussy, ought to find this enjoyable. As you use everything from (takes a deep breath) knives, axes, pistols, shotguns, rifles, crossbows, grenade launchers, heavy machine guns, rocket launchers, and (exhales) your mighty robot feet and fists to redecorate the environment in bits of your enemies. The controls are reasonably slick, though there's a lack of polish that brings it down a little if you are a joy-pad user, as the target lock-on can sometimes aim at things nowhere near where you are pointing. The last annoyance is that activities like kicking in doors, or battering someones head in, cannot be interrupted once started. Having said that: this is intentional, and part of the methodical mechanics, as it forces you to think about your actions, else you leave yourself exposed. It still did my head in a bit. In terms of its presentation its fairly decent overall. Graphically it isn't all that but it gets the job done. On the other hand the audio and music is excellent, with pretty banging electronic tunes providing a funky backdrop to the sounds of gunfire, screams and splats of blood. The game isn't very long at around 3 hours to complete, but this is offset by the cheap price and it being pretty enjoyable while it lasted.

A pure, distilled, cyberpunk experience, vibrating with raw and raging cyber-violence. Gta london meets Georg Darrow's Hard Boiled graphic novel!

Heavily inspired by "Hotline Miami", "The Detroit After" is enjoyable and its soundtracks are great. A good choice for the people who wants an action violent game.

Great game so far, I'm having a lot of fun! It takes some time to understand the mechanics but when you master the basics you're hooked up! This game deserves attention!

A poor man's Hotline Miami. Not quite as fast as HM, and a bit more forgiving with health (not one shot death), but still fun.

Explosions, blood, damage, wreckomendead.

This is a fun, short game greatly inspired by Hotline Miami. You can take more than one hit which already sets it apart. The shooting is satisfying but the level design is just nowhere near what Hotline Miami 1 or 2 offers. The story is pretty much a throwaway but you can easily skip all the scenes if you choose to do so. Overall I'd recommend it for the price especially if you want more games like Hotline Miami. Hope the dev chooses to continue with a sequel.

Hotline Miami+The Terminator This game was amazing！~~~

It's so good!

It's fun