Like Dennaton Games’, Hotline Miami, The Hong Kong Massacre is a brutally difficult shooter, one that will see a single shot end your game in an instance.
Similar to Hotline Miami in many respects, The Hong Kong Massacre is a violent shooter played from a top down perspective with the aim being to clear a number of rooms filled with genuinely deadly enemies. Still, despite its lack of diversity (both in terms of gameplay and visuals), there are few games that can match the pure primal thrill that accompanies The Hong Kong Massacre’s simple, but nonetheless, fantastic core mechanics. I say bordering as, despite its exceptional moment to moment gameplay, The Hong Kong Massacre is a bit too repetitive and one-dimensional to be considered a genuine great of the genre. Perhaps it’s because so few modern video games use the mechanic made famous by Max Payne way back in 2001, but its implementation in The Hong Kong Massacre turns what could have been a stylish but mechanically run-of-the-mill shooter in to something bordering on the sublime. Bullet time as a concept might well feel very 2000s, but if first time developer, VRESKI have proved anything with the release of their Hong Kong action film-inspired, The Hong Kong Massacre, it’s that it remains a resolutely cool and, in video game terms, a huge amount of fun.
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