I was going to spend the majority of this post talking about bulletstorm. Then something popped up yesterday that just needed to be dealt with. Maybe I am sounding a little harsh there, I have no intention of being mean. I just got a chuckle out of a comment one of the crew made. First lets talk bullets and storms.

I got the game late morning yesterday and finished it last night. My estimate was it took about nine hours to complete the single player on normal difficulty. Two things you need to understand on that estimate. One I was hauling ass, as I knew I wouldn’t have a lot of time to play it today. Second the hour count means jack shit all to me personally. I thought the game was about the perfect length. I never had the oh lord when is this going to end feeling. The story was fairly standard, but had a few twists I didn’t see coming. It has a lot of replay value in my mind. I can see myself going back through the campaign on easy. Just to see how many different ways I can stick enemies to the environment. Using all the different guns that I didn’t use much the first time.

If playing through the campaign again doesn’t blow your skirt up, there is two other modes to keep you entertained. Echo mode allows you to run back through parts of the campaign maps. The object of the mode is to score as many points as possible, while finishing the map as fast as possible. The demo was one of the Echo mode maps. There is also anarchy mode. If your familiar with the Gears horde then you will pick up this mode quickly. There are a few differences, but nothing major. Overall bulletstorm is a solid title. I won’t give it a full review as there are a metric ton of them already out. I will say that most of the scores I have seen are close, but a little high. Right now if forced to give a score I would give it a seven and a half. I bet you ask me in a week it will bump to eight after playing Echo and Anarchy mode more.

Speaking of bulletstorm, the first DLC was announced the same day as launch. Now I have seen this with several other games both this year and last year. It sparked a conversation on facebook yesterday which brought up two interesting points. The first was, if they have DLC already why isn’t it on the game disc or is it and they just want to charge us. This point has been brought up multiple times in the past and I really don’t want to get in to the debate. I do think publishers are morons for announcing DLC this soon. As it just fuels the fire for people who think that way. I have stated over and fucking over, that gamers need to speak with their wallets. That is the only way to combat this problem. Which as we have all seen won’t happen, so get ready for more instant DLC.

The second point, was actually a comment by young Glasenator and it made me laugh. “I friggin hate DLC. Always have, always will.” While he has every right to hate it, we all must be aware it’s not going away ever. Again we bought enough of the crap over time, game companies are not going to give up the revenue stream. Yet for younger gamers like Glasenator, let me give you a little history lesson. DLC has always been around, it just use to be called an expansion pack. Back in the days before digital that was DLC. The case can be made that there was more to an true expansion pack versus DLC. I for one believe that to be completely true. The reason that was true is due to cost. DLC is much cheaper to produce and market so they can get away with giving us less. A boxed expansion pack cost more to produce, so they gave you more content. Then again even the most expensive DLC is still cheaper than the average expansion pack was. My point is, whether you call it DLC or an expansion pack they have always been around.