Anger Foot Preview: Rise Of The Blooter Shooter

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It’s been ten years since the release of Devolver Digital’s first big hit, Hotline Miami, so it’s fitting that the publisher’s next game is essentially a first-person version of it. Anger Foot, revealed at the Devolver Digital Showcase last week, is an action game where you kick things. Doors, grenades, helicopters, alligators with crowbars, big balls of tangled up snakes that hide in toilets - whatever gets in your way, you kick. There’s something deeply satisfying about solving every problem with one explosive, bone-shattering kick, especially when your problem is a bunch of SMG-wielding dog-faced men who stole your favorite pair of shoes. This is the kind of lowbrow shit I crave.

There’s no hiding the Hotline Miami influence in Anger Foot. Each stage is a short run through an apartment (or sewer, or high rise) where you move from room to room killing everyone you can find. Enemies only take one kick or bullet to kill, while you can only survive a couple of bullets before you drop and have to restart the stage. The only way to enter a room is to blast door off the hinges with your foot, and you’ll usually get at least one free kill as the door smashes into an enemy on the other side. You have to have lightning-fast reflexes to clear the room from there, as you’ll typically find five or more enemies waiting on the other side, and most of them will be armed with pistols, shotguns, and grenades.

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To defend yourself, you can kick, shoot, or throw your gun to stun an enemy, and that’s about it. Your options may seem limited at first, but they force you to be creative. You can line up an enemy so that your kick sends them flying