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Hotline Miami

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81

TechSpot Metascore

Based on 8 expert reviews
  • Excellent:
    4
  • Good:
    3
  • Average:
    0
  • Bad:
    1

Pros:

  • A fascinating story of absolute insanity.
  • Colorful retro graphics.
  • Occasional great combos.

Cons:

  • Punishing difficulty and unfair randomization.
  • Bad stealth level and boss fights.
  • More Pros & Cons
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Last revision on November 8, 2016

Editors Liked

  • A fascinating story of absolute insanity
  • Colorful retro graphics
  • Occasional great combos
  • Responsive controls let you play recklessly
  • Outstanding soundtrack
  • Entrancing visual design
  • Levels are tough but fair
  • Gloriously violent

Editors Didn't Like

  • Punishing difficulty and unfair randomization
  • Bad stealth level and boss fights
  • Crashes
  • Boss battles can be frustrating
  • No gamepad support

Expert reviews and ratings

By Realm of Gaming on February 05, 2013 85

PCIt's no question that the indie game movement is growing at a rapid pace. New indie games come out nearly every day, even if you never even hear about most of them. Those that get passed over tend to feature a striking visual style or a unique game...

By New Game Network on November 08, 2012 84

Hotline Miami will make you laugh even as you smash your keyboard because you just died again. The addictive gameplay and compelling story make this an easy...

By Yet Another Review Site on November 08, 2012 90

Brilliant, strange, unnerving – just buy it now!You get a phone call. It tells you that you need to go to a hotel and clean a room. You get drive there in your Delorean, don a rubber animal mask and then kill everything that moves in various brutal ways....

By PC Gamer on November 01, 2012 86

Transgressive like Grand Theft Auto hasn’t been for years, Hotline is violent, quick and compulsive but lacking in depth....

By CNET Australia on November 01, 2012 80

Hotline Miami is an intoxicating celebration of violence that will have you pounding the restart button for...

By GameSpy on October 30, 2012 50

It is a rare game that dares to question why it sends us on homicidal rampages. Hotline Miami does it cleverly and subversively by casting us as a schizophrenic hitman who compulsively kills a small army of thugs for reasons even he doesn't...

By GamePlanet on October 28, 2012 90

In the sparsely populated kingdom of 2D top-down action titles, Hotline Miami reigns...

By gamecrate.com on March 20, 2015

Dennaton Games' Hotline Miami titles are both a blessing and a curse. Obviously, some may think that the curse comes from both games' diabolically hard difficulty, while, at the same time, presenting a challenge that will keep players coming back for...

By eTeknix on October 28, 2012

So this last couple of day I have been playing around with Hotline Miami, many of you may not have a clue what this game is all about and quite frankly after a few days of playing it myself, I'm not sure how to even begin this telling you about it.I...

International Review By wired.it on December 05, 2012 83

Alla vigilia dell'ennesimo salto generazionale, con la Wii U ormai svelata e le nuove Xbox e PlayStation prossime all'unveil, stupisce come sia ancora possibile restare a bocca aperta per una piccola produzione indipendente, PC/Mac only, arrivata a...

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