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Blues and Bullets is a dark and violent crime thriller. Set in an alternative Eliot Ness & Al Capone story, Blues and Bullets blends a stunning script with detective work to deliver an amazing interactive experience.
Blues and Bullets is a adventure, noir and detective game
developed and published by A Crowd of Monsters.
Released on July 22nd 2015 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux
in 14 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Czech, Japanese, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Hungarian, Simplified Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian and Polish.
It has received 1,367 reviews of which 853 were positive and 514 were negative resulting in a rating of 6.1 out of 10. 😐
The game is currently priced at 4.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for less on Gamivo.
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Windows
- OS *: Windows 7
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- DirectX: Version 9.0
- Storage: 4 GB available space
MacOS
- OS: OSX 10.7
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Storage: 4 GB available space
Linux
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Storage: 4 GB available space
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Yeah, the game is unfinished and will never be finished. So, I dont recommend gettting it. Yet I still leave this a positive review, as the 2 released episodes are truly great. This is by far the darkest, grimmest and most violent take on a Telltale-style story. Got to love the dark atmosphere, and the situations way too grim and ugly for big game publishers to touch. Little touch of steampunkiness also makes the Film Noire world an interesting place. Most importantly, the story is very intresting and keeps you glued to it, and darkness of it makes anything possible, this is not your generic Hollywood story. Shame and sad that this game was never completed. The developers should have found a publisher to fund the whole game, instead of relying on the sales of first episode. Their business model failed, and everyone lost.
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Writing this review as of the first two episodes so far. Will update it as more episodes come out. I've had an enjoyable experience playing through the first two episodes so far. The game takes you on a story to uncover the disapperance of several kids, which leads you to some seriously harrowing situations, and presents you with some difficult decisions. The game has a strong and well-executed cinematic feel to it. It's almost like you're watching a movie or a TV show where you're in full control of the main character and his actions. Gameplay is very varied across each episode. There are sections where you have to collect clues and play the detective so to uncover what gruesome event has occurred in that place, then there are dialogue and story-driven sections where you get to make choices and decisions, some of which require you to choose quickly as they're limited by time, and then there are gunfight sections too, where you find yourself in 3rd person shooter cover-based combat situations. Overall, each aspect of the gameplay is handled well. There are occasional quick-time events presented as well, which I personally don't like, but there aren't that many of them to ruin the game. The presentation is stellar. Visuals are really stunning and unique, which fits the noir setting the game is going for perfectly, and the music is also phenomenal. I particularly like the main theme that has female vocals in it. Dialogue is well-written and well-voice-acted too. A few minor things that felt like drawbacks. The control of the character can be a bit of a bother at times, because many areas have fixed camera angles and won't let you rotate, so sometimes when exploring it's a bit difficult to see where you're going. There's also no manual saving that I've found. The game is only saved in between scenes, which serve as checkpoints, but some of these scenes are quite lengthy, so if you need to quit mid-scene, you'll lose progress and will have to rewatch any cutscenes when you come back since those seem to be unskippable. There were a couple of glitches too, but nothing too serious. Overall, I'm very much engrossed in the game's plot and hoping that the next episode will come out soon. Episode 1 started off well, and episode 2 really took it up a notch in terms of the stakes and the intensity. The episodes aren't overly long, unfortunately. Episode 1 took me about 2 hours to get through, and episode 2 about 3 hours. But it's well worth it despite the length. The episodes are packed with action and good story, and I hope the devs do not give up on this game.
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I do not really review episodic titles without having all episodes at hand with a complete walkthrough. With Blues and Bullets I did an exception as the title with its heavy noir atmosphere kept calling me. "A Crowd of Monsters" made an interesting and enjoyable game and I'm sure we'll hear more about them in the future. In the center of the game we have Eliot Ness who is based on the real Eliot Ness - an agent who enforced the Prohibition in the early 20th century and was famous for being part of the so-called Untouchables, a group tasked with getting Chicago rid of its corruption and - most notably - putting Al Capone behind bars. Here, the story is fictionalised - Eliot has already retired when he gets a visit from one of Capone's henchmen. The kingpin wants to bury the hatchet and offers the agent a job most unexpected: finding his granddaughter as Sofia Capone was kidnapped. The game is completely monochrome to provide full immersion into its noir-esque world - safe for some objects / areas that stand out due to their vivid, red colours. These either highlight story-related (important) characters or interactable objects or just represent cosmetics (such as Eliot's red tie). Flames also appear in their natural colour - still, I found the game a little dark so I suggest you increase the brightness a little. Too bad there are not many graphics options in the menu - they could have really toned down on the lens flare. The accompanying music and voice acting are both excellent. Eliot's voice I immediately recognised - he is voiced by none other than Doug Cockle (Geralt of Rivia in the Witcher series). The rest of the cast are also really good - the game offers a film-like experience and the slow but interesting detective sequences get replaced by fast-paced shoot-outs with exploding barrels and Tommy gun wielding goons. The game is similar to any Telltale games: we interact with objects, pick between conversation options and sometimes make choices. Unfortunately, similarly to any Telltale games we are almost always led to believe that picking the other answer during our next playthrough will yield different results. Another Telltale similarity - the main menu shows our choice in each chapter and we can check how we fared compared to the rest of the gaming community. I didn't like how the camera worked in the game. It moves along a set route which limits the places we can go. It makes it a tad bit difficult to notice all the interactable objects. A little more freedom in the detective sections could have been better. As for the detective sections - each episode contains a relative big section with explorable rooms. Interacting with each object and their parts (e.g. opening a suitcase and checking its contents by rotating it in every direction) allows us to complete the board; Eliot's questions that should be answered by picking the right clue. This is a great game! I do not believe we have many in the noir genre; for Blue and Bullets many talented developers and artists assembled. The game, at this point, has only one letdown for me: the release date of its episodes. Episode 1 came out last (2015) summer while the 2nd one only this spring. And we have 3 more episodes to go on. At this rate this does not bode well; hope they can cut down on the difference and bring the series to full fruition this or early next year. PS: The the rest of the episodes (3-5) will be reviewed later after their release.
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This review concerns Episode 1. For Episode 2 review, see here: http://steamcommunity.com/id/vicrabb/recommended/384380/ In a world where you can find hotels in the sky and mob bosses in submarines..., well, eeer, let me rephrase that. In a world where Eliott Ness stepped down as a cop and opened a diner, he's contacted by an old friend to help him to find a member of his family. But it seems that the clues are pointing you towards something more darker than it seems... The game is an episodic one, so only the first is released now and setting the story. The opening is showing children captive of a strange sect/cult/maniac. You're taking the control of a little girl first before switching to Ness. Even if for now, the plot needs more explanation (because it's the first episode), you're directly thrown into that dark world and waiting for more after that cliffhanger. And the gameplay is similar to Telltale: you choose your answer, you make decisions that will influence the story (though I'm waiting for the rest of the episodes, because I've chosen to be the gentle and helping player and not the bitter or bad one). You have also some Quicktime Events, though they're not the core of the gameplay. But contrary to any Walking Dead or The Wolf is Among Us - I don't know for the other series -, you're also having some shooting sequences (you cover, you aim, you place your crosshair on the bad guy and you shoot) in a pure rail shooter ambiance. You have also the Clue Mode and the Investigation Board when you need to find what happened earlier: you look at the clues, you find the number required in order to be thorough and you're putting the right clue in the right place on your Investigation Board (though I don't know the English name as my interface was in French). The real strong point is probably the graphics: everything is in black and white, apart for every item that may be in red (blood, carpets, lipstick, clothes, etc etc..). Even at one moment, you get a rail shooter sequence between words that appear! Everything is made to put you into a dark ambiance. The soundtrack is also very good, very '40 - '50. And I'm very impatient to discover the second episode. That game has a huge potential. It's really enjoyable, even if you're not in an open world. But you get hooked by everything. Definitively a must-have!
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Blues and Bullets is an episodic alternative history noir game developed by A Crowd of Monsters. The first episode was released in July 2015 with the second due to be released in March of 2016. I will keep this review updated with each chapter I complete. Gameplay takes place in third person as you control Eliot Ness, the police officer who caught and locked up the great, Al Capone. Eliot has now retired from being a cop and runs his own diner, called Blues and Bullets. This game reminded me quite a bit of L.A Noire as you search for clues for a crime. There is only one crime scene to investigate in this episode but it is a gruesome one at that. There is a small element of gun play, which is very basic at best; it is done via an “on rails” mechanic similar to that of Time Crisis or Blue Estate. The gun play so far has a very small part to play in the game overall. Graphically, the game is represented in a black and white noir style visual. This art style just looks awesome, whilst the graphics themselves aren’t stunningly good, the black and white tricks your eyes into thinking it is better looking than it actually it. The animation is slightly on the poor side, but nothing that can’t be ignored. Eliot is voiced by none other than Doug Cockle (the voice of Geralt from the Witcher franchise), and the rest of the voice acting is all done to a very high quality. I was completely hooked onto the story right from the start of the game, there isn’t a slow ramp in excitement like most adventure games like this, and you get right into the nitty-gritty from the get-go. The ending of episode 1 leaves you wanting more as the plot takes a huge turn of events. There are plans for there to be another 4 episodes released, I am hoping they speed up the development cycle of them, as I think 9 months between episodes is a bit too much in my opinion. There isn’t any aspect of difficulty in episode 1, the only real puzzle can be completed with just a matter of trial and error and the gun play scenes have checkpoints at every corner so even if you do die, you don’t have to replay a whole lot of content. I am looking forward to see how they make the gameplay elements of this game have more of a challenge in future episodes. Episode 1 took me just about two hours to complete; this was with finding all interactable objects throughout the scenes to get an achievement. I found out at the end of the chapter, that finding all of these objects unlocks a “Bobble head” mode, which is always a classic cheat mode that used to be included in game. It will be interesting to see whether you can activate this mode in future episodes or whether it is only to be used in episodes you have already completed! Sadly I did have a couple of technical problems with Blues and Bullets. I suffered two random crashes of the game that took me straight back to desktop, with no error message or warnings. There were no signs that the game was suffering performance issues, it did only happen when completing a scene, never mid gameplay. Thankfully the game saves at the end of each scene you complete, but this does leave room for game save file corruption. The game can be played with keyboard and mouse; normally for third person view games I opt for a keyboard and mouse controls, especially ones with any form of gunplay, sadly I could not do it with Blues and Bullets. Firstly the onscreen controls do not show any keyboard controls; only Xbox controls. Secondly, the cursor in game has a fairly big glitch where it just shows as a blank white square. You have to move your cursor to the bottom right hand corner of the screen for it not to be visible even when using a controller. To sum up, Blues and Bullets is so far a very interesting adventure game that has a lot of potential. Hopefully the technical problems are cleaned up before the next release of the series comes out. If you are a fan of the Noire themed films and games, this game is definitely going to be for you. It’s a fairly quick paced game which is something that a lot of adventure games can’t boast about so even the casual players amongst you will definitely get some enjoyment here. If you are on the fence about the game still, you can purchase just episode 1 for £3,99 which should give you a good amount of content to see whether you will enjoy the rest of the series, provided the developers don’t change it drastically or you can purchase the complete season for £14,99. Right now I would be completely happy paying £14,99 for this season, it does a lot of things right and the only negative points are technical problems which will hopefully be patched in the future. Tom's Score Card 1) Stay away 2) Not Recommended 3) Only recommended when on sale 4) Recommended 5) Highly recommended 6) This is a must play If you found this review helpful, please give it a thumbs up. If you would also like to follow my reviews more easily, be sure to join my group by clicking [url=steamcommunity.com/groups/TeamTomsReviews]here . You may also be interested in checking out a PC gaming podcast, be sure to head [url=http://steamcommunity.com/groups/dlpcg]here. http://store.steampowered.com/app/378660
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Blues and Bullets is currently priced at 4.99€ on Steam.
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Blues and Bullets received 853 positive votes out of a total of 1,367 achieving a rating of 6.10.
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Blues and Bullets was developed and published by A Crowd of Monsters.
Blues and Bullets is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Blues and Bullets is playable and fully supported on MacOS.
Blues and Bullets is playable and fully supported on Linux.
Blues and Bullets is a single-player game.
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