I’ve got to admit, once I muted the horrible soundtrack and started fighting people as Rob Zombie kicked in, it clicked. This is the tried and true gameplay that you either love or hate. You’re almost always fighting dozens of enemies on screen at once and very rarely do you encounter a one-on-one fight. While the tutorial is still poor when using the controller, you do get over the learning curve and you can thankfully remap the buttons. This means that a controller is pretty much mandatory.

It’s kind of like using your elbows to steer a car, it technically works, just not very well. Even if the game did have decent button prompts, using the keyboard is still ill-advised. The game has icons but doesn’t say what buttons trigger them, requiring you to go to the options menu and figure it out from there. The latter two issues make the tutorial rather annoying since, regardless of whether you’re using a keyboard or controller, you can’t easily tell what button does what. At the time of writing this review there doesn’t seem to be any support for 16:10 resolution, mouse input and controller button prompts. Thankfully I haven’t had nearly as many problems as some people, but that doesn’t mean this is acceptable, especially when asking fifty dollars for it. There have been multiple reports of game crashes, failed game session launches and framerate issues.

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