Bulletstorm is a futuristic first-person shooter with larger-than-life
weaponry and arcade-paced combat. Encouraging risky maneuvers and highly
chaotic battles, the game's "Skillshot" feature rewards exceptionally
precise, destructive, and creative hits with experience points, which
are used to purchase character upgrades and unlock powerful weapons. The
single-player storyline develops through high-adventure missions set in
a dangerous, abandoned paradise. "Echo" mode tracks players'
performances in sequences from the single-player campaign. Multiplayer
combat is available in "Anarchy" mode.
The game's story involves
an exclusive confederation of the wealthy and influential, fiercely
protected by a troop of elite mercenaries known as Dead Echo. When two
of the squad's most distinguished members exhibit unease regarding the
ethical implications of their mission, they're betrayed by their
commanders and exiled to a forsaken resort planet on the edge of the
galaxy, pitting them against the grave dangers of alien space and,
ultimately, their former comrades. Bulletstorm was co-developed by 3D
shooter veterans at People Can Fly (Painkiller) and Epic Games (Gears of
War, Unreal).