Prior to commencing a mission, the player is asked to select an animal mask to wear, each of which-with the exception of “Richard”, the default rooster mask-provides a unique benefit, such as faster movement or a starting weapon. These messages tell him to perform an arbitrary task at a certain location, which in each case is inferred as a euphemism for killing every person at that location (e.g., “giving VIPs at a hotel a great stay” or “taking care of a pest infestation”). At the start of most chapters, “Jacket” wakes up in his apartment and listens to cryptic messages on his answering machine. Hotline Miami is divided into several chapters, each of which is further broken down into several stages. At the end of each chapter, the game grades the player’s performance based on factors such as speed, variation and recklessness. To make up for this, Hotline Miami allows the player to restart each stage as soon as they die, allowing them to quickly fine-tune their approach over several attempts. Enemy artificial intelligence varies slightly, causing them to occasionally move unpredictably and making it difficult to plan a perfect approach. Hotline Miami’s unmistakable visual style, a driving soundtrack, and a surreal chain of events will have you question your own thirst for blood while pushing you to the limits with a brutally unforgiving challenge. The action is unrelenting and every shot is instantly fatal, each move must be quick if you hope to survive long enough to unveil the sinister forces driving the bloodshed. Rely on your wits to choreograph your way through seemingly impossible situations as you constantly find yourself outnumbered by vicious enemies. Set in an alternative 1989 Miami, you will assume the role of a mysterious man on a murderous rampage against the shady underworld at the behest of voices on your answering machine.
Hotline Miami is a high-octane action game overflowing with raw brutality, hard-boiled gunplay and skull crushing close combat.
The game blends top-down perspective with stealth, extreme violence and surreal storytelling, along with a soundtrack and visuals inspired by 1980s culture. Set in 1989 Miami, the game revolves primarily around an unnamed silent protagonist-dubbed “Jacket” by fans-who has been receiving coded messages on his answering machine instructing him to commit massacres against the local Russian mafia.
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