Guns, swords, bats, bottles pretty much anything you can get your hands on can be used as a weapon in SUPERHOT, or at least be thrown at your enemies to stagger them, causing any weapons they are holding to be relinquished from their grasp. Complete the task at hand and aside from being repeatedly bombarded both aurally and visually by the word SUPERHOT, your actions are replayed in the background at normal speed, making you seem like some kind of Hollywood badass with a top-level choreographer. Essentially then, every environment plays out like a conundrum in which you’ve got to work out where to go and what objects or weapons to use to take out your opponents, avoiding their bullets by walking slowly so that you can weave between them. Pick up an item or shoot a gun and for the brief moments of a second that it takes you to do so life goes on around you, but stand still and everything remains (nearly) motionless. Like some kind of turn based dungeon-crawler, every time you move, the enemy moves. How you achieve that is largely dependent on what you can lay your hands on to do so, but there’s one major caveat in that every action you make progresses the passage of time. And the guns you say? Well, they’re just pieces of the game’s many puzzles that facilitate their completion.ĭuring SUPERHOT’s admittedly short campaign you’re dropped into numerous small environments with just one aim: kill everyone.

You see, SUPERHOT is that innovative that I struggle to consider it a shooter at all it’s more of a hybrid strategy/puzzle game played out in a first person viewpoint. Now first off, I’m supposed to say that SUPERHOT is the most innovative shooter in years, and it’s quite possibly true. If you need more convincing at the expense of losing a bit of the magic however, read on.

Basically, what I’m trying to say is that SUPERHOT is the kind of game that blows your mind if you go into it blind, so if you want the same experience I had, stop reading and go buy it now.

SUPERHOT is one such game, because if I hadn’t gone into it only really knowing about its striking visual style and unique first-person shooter gameplay, I doubt it would have had the same impact on me. Every once in a while a game comes around that makes me glad that I don’t tend to watch trailers, look at previews or even, quite shockingly, read reviews (a strange thing as the co-owner of this very website, I know).

Superhot gameplay