Hotline Miami Controls For Mac

Hotline Miami Controls For Mac Computers
Hotline Miami Controls Pc

Playing Hotline Miami for hours yesterday, with my hand perpetually strained in a claw shape rapidly hitting W,A,S,D,R and Shift, it gave me carpal tunnel-like nerve strain. Temporarily, at least. Arm felt so weird that it took me hours to get to sleep. Keyboard and mouse controls do have drawbacks. Hotline Miami is a high-octane action game overflowing with raw brutality, hard-boiled gunplay and skull crushing close combat. Set in an alternative 1989 Miami, you will assume the role of a mysterious antihero on a murderous rampage against the shady underworld at the behest of voices on your answering machine. Soon you'll find yourself struggling to get a grip of what is going on and why. Ok I finish Hotline Miami and have no idea what the plot/story was about besides the characters you play getting phone calls to kill people. Seems like the makers just made a bunch of crazy scenes.

Name: Hotline Miami

Available on: PC, Mac, Linux, PS3, PS Vita

Reviewed on: PS Vita

Hotline Miami is one of those games where there’s little-to-no story, the controls are fairly basic, and the graphics aren’t realistic – but it manages to be more fun that perhaps most games that feature even just one of those mechanics.

Hotline Miami is a very violent game. Not violent as in ‘a bit of blood here and there’, violent as in you’ll be punching people’s heads off, shooting people, choking people, and even drilling holes in people. This game, while not realistic in many ways, is not for the faint of heart.

Hotline Miami is a top-down beat-em-up type game that progresses through a set of linear missions, which must be unlocked in order.

One day, the unnamed playable character wakes up in a basement, where after a quick tutorial in how to kill people through a variety of methods, the character walks upstairs to a room with three masked men who promptly launch into a cryptic set of messages, before the actual game begins. Each mission plays out with the character receiving a phone call, driving to a location, and killing a whole bunch of henchmen. Each level takes place in a building with many floors, so the character will make their way up each floor until they eventually kill every man in the building. After the character accomplishes this, they walk all the way through the floors of the building, past all the piles of bodies of the men he’s killed, reaches the entrance, hops in his car, and then goes an completes a mundane task, like buying groceries, renting a movie, or going to the local disco to get his groove on – this is (presumably) the 80s after all. These tasks help reiterate how strange the whole set of events is, and even allows some sort of story progression (which is very minimal and I never really followed what was happening – or even why it was happening).

Gameplay is very simple – there is one ‘action’ button that will make you use whatever you’re holding: fists will punch, baseball bats will swing, and guns will fire, all with the press of this one button – it’s very easy to use, especially since the only other controls are moving and controlling the cursor. Whenever you kill or knock out an enemy, they drop their weapon. This is useful for many reasons, namely because the character can only carry one weapon at a time – so if you run out of ammo and need a melee weapon, or you have a melee weapon and want a gun, you’ll need to find whatever enemy has the weapon you’re after. Additionally, the AI in this game will react in many ways to different weapons: if they hear gunshots, they’ll come running. If they see you through a window holding a knife, they’ll shoot you/run at you. This can be used to an advantage to quickly exterminate all the enemies on a floor – a tactic of mine was a gunshot followed by picking up the knife and holding down the ‘action’ button to melee very fast, and then moving close to the door and killing all the enemies very quickly.

It’s little additions like these that make the game that much more stylised and interesting to play through. The other addition that makes the game unique on every playthrough (I played the campaign twice) is the feature of one hit kills for not just you, but your enemies as well (save for the few bosses). Once you die, you start from the start of the floor you were killed on – so sometimes I’d get through almost the entire floor of enemies and then die at the hands of the last one. There are little moments like these in Hotline Miami that just make the game that much more intense, and if you survive, rewarding.

The game also has several collectables; which are masks and puzzle pieces. Masks are masks that your character wears to do their job, all of which save for the starting mask add a perk to the game – one allows you to start with a knife, one gives you another life (but only if you get hit by a gunshot) and another allows for even more gore. There’s a mix of cosmetic masks (like the gore one) and gameplay ones (such as the knife one), which is good. Most masks are unlocked simply through progressing the story, but there are others that must be specifically found in a particular level. The other collectable, puzzle pieces, are found throughout all the levels, and are represented by a small purple square. Collecting these will give a letter, which is used to spell out a sentence. This is used in one of Hotline Miami’s two endings: either the standard one with little info (but still finishing the story) or the ‘complete’ ending, which gives a lot more information (but still doesn’t really make the story any clearer).

I only really have two gripes with this game, and funnily enough they’re almost contradictory: one regards how easy the game is, and the other how hard it is. My first issue is how overpowered some of the weapons are: the knife especially. I found that I was able to pretty much use just knife to kill everyone on a floor, and once I got the mask that let me start with a knife, that was the only mask I used. My other issue is that some parts of the game are incredibly difficult – the difficulty scaling in this game is crazy, it’ll be flowing at one point and then be incredibly difficult the next – I had to use a walkthrough to figure out how to do some parts, and at other parts I only survived thanks to a fluke. Fortunately, there’s only really three parts in the whole game that I remember as being incredibly difficult, and once you realise how to complete them they become so much easier.

Length-wise, there’s about 20 story missions here, and none of them take that long to complete – it’d be possible to finish the game in one sitting of about 3 hours I reckon, but otherwise it doesn’t take that long to complete. There is replay value in the masks and the puzzle pieces/complete ending though.

While there are a few issues regarding the difficult of the game, that doesn’t change how much pure, simple fun Hotline Miami is. It’s simple, intense, and just absolute brilliant.

Positive

Great Fun
Simple Art Style
Simple Gameplay
Great Design Elements (such as the one-hit kills)
Replay Value (masks and puzzle pieces)

Negative

Weak Storyline
A Few Overpowered Weapons
A Few Very Difficult Sections

Available Regions for Activation

Across the globe, except South America and Europe.

Afghanistan
Algeria
American Samoa
Angola
Anguilla
Antarctica
Aruba
Australia
Bahrain
Bangladesh
Benin
Bhutan
Botswana
Bouvet Island
British Indian Ocean Territory
British Virgin Islands
Brunei
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Cambodia
Cameroon
Canada
Cape Verde
Caribbean Netherlands
Cayman Islands
Central African Republic
Chad
China
Christmas Island
Cocos (Keeling) Islands
Comoros
Congo - Brazzaville
Congo - Kinshasa
Cook Islands
Côte d’Ivoire
Curaçao
Djibouti
Egypt
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Faroe Islands
Fiji
French Polynesia
French Southern Territories
Gabon
Gambia
Ghana
Gibraltar
Guadeloupe
Guam
Guernsey
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Heard & McDonald Islands
Hong Kong SAR China
India
Indonesia
Iran
Iraq
Isle of Man
Israel
Japan
Jersey
Jordan
Kazakhstan
Kenya
Kiribati
Kuwait
Kyrgyzstan
Laos
Lebanon
Lesotho
Liberia
Libya
Macau SAR China
Madagascar
Malawi
Malaysia
Maldives
Mali
Marshall Islands
Martinique
Mauritania
Mauritius
Mayotte
Micronesia
Mongolia
Montserrat
Morocco
Mozambique
Myanmar (Burma)
Namibia
Nauru
Nepal
New Caledonia
New Zealand
Niger
Nigeria
Niue
Norfolk Island
North Korea
Northern Mariana Islands
Oman
Pakistan
Palau
Palestinian Territories
Papua New Guinea
Philippines
Pitcairn Islands
Qatar
Réunion
Russia
Rwanda
Saint Martin
Samoa
São Tomé & Príncipe
Saudi Arabia
Senegal
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Singapore
Solomon Islands
Somalia
South Africa
South Korea
South Sudan
Sri Lanka
St. Barthélemy
St. Helena
St. Martin
St. Pierre & Miquelon
Sudan
Svalbard & Jan Mayen
Swaziland
Syria
Taiwan
Tajikistan
Tanzania
Thailand
Timor-Leste
Togo
Tokelau
Tonga
Tunisia
Turkmenistan
Turks & Caicos Islands
Tuvalu
U.S. Outlying Islands
U.S. Virgin Islands
Uganda
United Arab Emirates
United States
Uzbekistan
Vanuatu
Vietnam
Wallis & Futuna
Western Sahara
Yemen
Zambia
Zimbabwe

About the game

Hotline Miami is an action game loaded with brutal action, heavy shooting and rolling heads. Set in a 1989 alternative Miami, you'll take on the role of a mysterious antihero in a murderous rage against the shadowy underworld guided by your answering machine's voices.

Soon you will find yourself struggling for your control and understanding why you are prone to these acts of violence. Rely on your intelligence to demarcate your way through seemingly impossible situations while you constantly find yourself at a disadvantage among fierce enemies. The action is relentless and every shot is deadly so each move has to be quick and decisive if you want to survive and unravel the evil forces that drive the bloodshed.

The unmistakable visual style of Hotline Miami, plus an engaging soundtrack and a chain of surreal events will take you to the answer to your bloodlust while taking you to the limits of a relentless challenge.

Highlights

Amazing shootouts in neon corridors stained with blood combined with intense and immense soundtrack;
A surreal and brave story in 20 maps;
Amazing battles against a bizarre cast of bosses from Miami's underworld;
35 different weapons: from shotguns and assault rifles to katanas and pipes;
More than 1,000 sprites for a fantastic variety of environments, weapons, elements and enemies;
25 masks of animais to unlock that will hide your identity;
Engaging beats by Sun Araw, Coconuts, M.O.O.N., Jasper Byrne, The Huervo, Perturbator, Scattle, Elliott Berlin and Eirik Suhrke
Extremely difficult achievements that will test your limits.

System Requirements

Minimum

OS:Windows XP, Vista e 7
Storage:250 MB
Processor:1.2 GHz
Memory:512 MB
Graphics:DirectX (32MB)
DirectX:9.0

Minimum

OS:Mac OS 10.6+
Storage:130 MB
Processor:2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo +
Memory:1 GB

Minimum

Storage:130 MB
Processor:1.8 GHz Dual-Core
Memory:512 MB

Release date:2012-10-23
Developer: Dennaton Games
Publisher: Devolver