Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number is out

[Chris Stern]

and it is exactly what I was hoping for. core gameplay wise it's pretty much like the original Hotline Miami you go to the level and have to kill every person in there as quickly and often times as brutal as possible the faster you do it the more kills you can chain together to form combos.



Storywise like the first game it's very david lynchish(David lynch made such abstracted and surreal films as Blue Velvet, Lost Highway, Eraserhead, Mollhaland drive as well as the cult TV series Twin Peaks) but there is more of a actual narrative in this one then in the first game which while having a story it was very light on overall narrative.

One cool feature are how the many masks change your play style more then they did in the first game since the masks are now tied to various characters so say the Zebra mask now grants you a dodging roll while another will grant you two characters instead of one where one will use firearms and the other will use pure melee attacks and another grants you a character that will start the level dual wielding uzis but is slower and a bigger target. Also there also seems to be three different stories that you play through each of the acts in the game(each act is broken up into different stages) centered on a different set of characters.   

but you can see the game in action here as well as first impressions from TB.
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