10 Video Games That Tried Way Too Hard To Be Cool
9. Bulletstorm
Bulletstorm was supposed to be the next big Epic Games franchise, and the publisher spent a huge amount of time bigging up developers People Can Fly and how they were going to do for first-person shooters what Gears of War did for third-person shooters.
And, to their credit, the actual gameplay was totally spot on. Embracing arcade anarchy at a time where the competition was obsessed with creating modern-military action games where players spent half the time looking at the poorly-modelled ass of the NPC they were forced to follow, Bulletstorm's combat was gory, impactful, and absolutely insane.
However, everything around it couldn't quite justify the same level of OTT bravado. From the weapons, to the generic gruff space marine characters to the "HEADSHOT" titles that would pop up during combat, the game's style screamed trying too hard.
Also, to make the remastered version extra cool, they only threw in Duke Nukem as a playable character! In 2017!