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As you move, the first character does exactly what you just made him do. Then, you tap the Space Bar to rewind time back to the beginning of the turn so that you can move and shoot with the next character. You run around shooting, looting or picking up a new weapon, until such time as you decide to end your turn. Your lead character takes his turn and can take essentially as long as he wants for it. And, those characters take turns via the game's peculiar time rewinding mechanic. The one distinguishing characteristic that the game offers is that you always have two or three team members playing at a time. While not every shot is a one-hit kill for everyone in the game, Reservoir Dogs: Bloody Days is still brutally difficult at times, just like Hotline Miami. Blood sprays out of enemies in buckets, the movement is fast, and bullets are extremely deadly. It is a top-down shooter that bears some resemblance to Hotline Miami in both its look and feel. To its credit, the game at least tries in that department. The game does penalize you for killing civilians who get in the way, but it is still an absurd representation of the film.Д®ven with everything that it does wrong though, some quality gameplay could have salvaged Reservoir Dogs: Bloody Days. Blonde seems to enjoy killing in Reservoir Dogs, but in the game, pretty much every character is a mass murderer.

In fact, it misses the entire point of the movie, which is that everyone wanted to avoid violence at the diamond heist to keep it simple and easy.

#Reservoir dogs video game movie

While the movie does have its share of violence, it is not an action movie and it does not fit the mold of an action game - especially this one. Importing the Reservoir Dogs property into a top-down shooter in which you mow down enemies by the dozen is also at odds with what happens in the movie.

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Instead, it is just a series of short missions that have no connection between them.

There is absolutely no story to speak of in the game, nor is there any of the movie's sense of intrigue. The original writing is a combination of unimaginative, banal banter like 'Let's hurry up and get out of here!', expletives, and failed attempts at humor. Those quotes are generally shoehorned into the game, so much that even if you have never seen the movie, you could probably tell which of the lines come from it. There is not a single line of voiced dialog between all of these characters but rather a mixture of original writing and select quotes from the movie. The only robber who bears even a slight resemblance to his movie character is Mr. Brown is huge, bald and beefy and looks more like a Space Marine than Quinton Tarantino. Do those two characters look anything like Harvey Keitel and Steve Buscemi to you? It makes sense that a small budget game would not be able to use the exact likenesses of the original actors, but the game doesn't even get the basics right. Case in point - the screenshot above is Mr. Reservoir Dogs: Bloody Days neither stays faithful to the movie upon which it is based, nor does it make any attempt to expand on that story. The recognizable name was slapped onto the game, and its generic characters were renamed 'Mr. Somehow, these two parties married up and voila, Reservoir Dogs Bloody Days was born.

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Or, perhaps somebody was contractually obligated to churn out a game before his use of the license expired. Meanwhile, somebody somewhere else decided that the movie needed a game tie-in to coincide with its 25th anniversary celebration. It is as if somebody one day decided to make a squad-based Hotline Miami clone with a weird time rewind mechanic. How on Earth this game even came into being must be an interesting tale in and of itself. It would be a little too harsh to categorize Reservoir Dogs: Bloody Days as shovelware, but it is nonetheless one of the poorest uses of a license in recent memory. And, perhaps worst of all, everything in the game - from the visual design of its characters to its bodies that pile up the by dozen - is insultingly incongruent with the 1992 movie that shares its name. It is also a clumsy and extremely punishing affair that seems hellbent on spoiling the game for you at almost every turn. Its level design, graphics, and music are rote and mind-numbingly repetitive. Reservoir Dogs: Bloody Days brings one interesting game mechanic to the table, and that is where its positives end.