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Bullet Babe!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 8
Date: March 01, 2007
Author: Amazon User

A witch with a big gun? Hunt the undead? The time in 2012. It is a time where over 1/3 of the human population is dead, due to war, disease and unknown creatures. A witch stands up to put a stop to this chaos. Her name is Alicia.

Players will take control of Alicia throughout the game, togeher with some Resistance soldier NPC. On the top right corner of the screen indicates your HP, EP and bullet rounds.

Like all action shooting games, your HP will decrease when you take damage from enemy, but it will auto-recover after some time. However, one hit from any vehicle or sniper will kill you instantly. EP gauge will only fill up to max, if you defeat an enemy. It decreases when you reload your gun or using magic.

The giant gun will be your primary weapon, and 10 collateral magic attacks, including Ancient Wall, Sacrifice, Raven panic etc. There are also 3 Major Magics to deal Major damage: Thunder, Tornado and Meteor. Unfortunately, players are required to fill up their HP/EP gauge before casting Major Magics.

There are 6 stages in this game, running from the city of America to the sewers, country side areas and heart of the forrest. It takes approximately 1 hour to complete a single stage. After every stage, you will be graded and given points. Use these points to unlock Shotgun and Rifle, also new magics and stats. Major Magic can be obtained automatically in later stages.

If you died middle of the game, it sends you back to the last checkpoint, and the good thing is, it only take several minutes to return where you left off. Simple and easy.

Beginners may find aiming at enemies is hard, due to big cursor and small aiming areas. But when you get the hang of it, it's pretty easy.

These are some good character models in this game, especially Alicia, who is the perfect example of a video game babe.

There are more than 10 types of enemies including bosses. They usually come in small numbers, but don't underestimate them. Blind fire without keeping an eye on your HP may be fatal. Boss fights are pretty interesting, I can ensure you that you'll be amazed.

If you get bored with Alicia's outfit, there are some extra ones in Xbox Live Marketplace. There are also some Concept Missions up for grabs also.

Archievement points are easy to gain here, finishing each stage gains you some points, and beating the game in different difficulty gains you more points as well.

Bullet Witch may be one of those normal action shooting game, but it is fun to use a female character and shoot around with 80 rounds out of a giant machine gun. I strongly recommend this game to Gears Of War Fans - it's similar to GOR, except the main character is a babe!

ANOTHER CRAPPY FEMALE HERO, WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 38
Date: March 03, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Lets face it, everytime a videogame incorporates a female leading character, the game turn into ruins....examples??? red ninja (sucked),nightshade (sucked) tomb raider ( sucks), aeon flux (sucks),like that there are many.....bulletwitch is no exemption, SHE SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!! shes a gungrave, devil may cry wanna be, thats all she is..the game is pretty boring, feels just like gungrave, its for sure a gungrave rip-off...but then again, atari does not make great games either.....this game is a rental at most...its not worth your 49.99....buy a real mens game, BUY GOD OF WAR 2 INSTEAD!!!!!!!!

Good Third Person shooter

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 8
Date: March 04, 2007
Author: Amazon User

As third person shooters go this one is actully very good. It feels like a cross between 'Devil May Cry' and 'Silent Hill' with a stronger lean towards shooting instead of melee. The storyline is also detailed enough to be intersting but does not overload the gameplay. The effects are great, and the overall visual and realisim level are quite high.

The controls are not overly complex and the weapons/spells available are cool. The game physics are also awesome, most anything can be blown up or you can use willpower to force cars, planes, trashcans, barrels, etc into your enemies. There is no need to track ammo in this game, you reload by summoning ammo using a tiny amount of magic and it's fairly quick, so there's no conservation strategy required. Health and Magic regen over time. The only upgrades are purchased between stages, so you're not hunting for the elusive upgrades/weps.

I rate this a 4 for Fun, and 5 overall because this is the best 3rd person shooter I've seen, I'm not usually a fan of third person shooting.

A side note, seeing a female from third person is quite a bit nicer than staring at a guy for hours on end, at least from my perspective.

BULLET WITCH REVIEW

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 15
Date: March 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

If it's one thing I have to say, it is if you hate this game you can go f*** yourself ***hole! This one of the best games I've played in a while, and I still want to keep playing it even though I beat it. Sure, the graphics don't meet Xbox 360 standards and the controls need work, it's funner than you'd think from some of the problems I've mentioned. If you're someone with A.D.D. I wouldn't recommend this game for you because it requires a lot of time and patience to figure out where to go. What helped with this problem was I always looked for signs of shooting. The spells you get to use on the game are awesome, such as tornados, meteors, lightning, ravens, walls, the ability to toss cars and debris, and the power to heal fallen comrades. The gun the main character Alicia gets to use is part broom, but it's a very powerful and amazing and you can upgrade it to machine gun, shotgun, and a gatling gun. Luckily your health recovers on it's own, but what helps to prevent you from losing your health completely is by the effective jumping mechanism your character has the ability to use. Whatever you do never trust magazine reviews of this game, because most people I've talked to have said this game is fun, not ok, but fun. The music score from this game is excellent and brings out this game's beauty, it's not just a shooter, but also a game where the storyline and emotions keep you captivated and take you away from the usual mindless hardcore shooters where you feel nothing. So you must buy this game and experience something truly amazing and addicting to play. Although there are only six missions they're long, difficult at times, and awesome to play. This game can even be purchased for kids because it's only mature-rated for blood, language, and violence. This game can also be for pyromaniacs because you can blow cars up along with buildings, tanks, and helicopters with your powers. So please buy this game, do yourself a favor and give yourself something amazing and beautiful to play.

Close but no cigar...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 13, 2007
Author: Amazon User

There are so many things that are frustrating with this game that I don't even know where to start. So, here it goes. The camera, Argh!!! Half the time you can't see what your fighting because your character is in the way or one of the lame AI characters desides to plant his butt right in your view. Speaking if AI, why is it that they seem to shoot allot but kill nothing? I can't tell you how many times I got killed from someone from behind while the stupid AI just watched!

The "skills" system that allows you to upgrade your magic and weapon would be good if the game lasted more than four hours and you had more opportunity to upgrade. You get awarded points at the end of each level and if you sucked, good luck upgrading anything. For example, I had to play the game through twice just to get all four gun modes and then when you finally are able to "level up" your gun/witchcraft, there's no difference. I've maxed out my machine gun and it's no different than it was when I started, lots of noise and 800,000 shots just to kill one enemy. Argh!!! What were the developers thinking?

The levels are long and tedious with allot of kill this "thing" to unlock that gate. Another funny note is that you meet the final boss right off and you're told that you can't fight him right now because you lack the skills however when you finally do fight him you're character is no different than when you started. What? I know you don't get it but if you buy this game you will... Anyway, I bought this title because there's a survival horror thing going here on which I love, however is the game worth it? Trust me, rent it first.

Bullet Witch gets 2 stars from me because there are some really cool moments like battling a demon at 10,000 feet while trying not to fall off the jet. The "great magic" that you get is pretty cool to watch in action but the magic regeneration will have you once again wondering, WTF?

Avoid this witch's lame spell

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: March 15, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Bullet Witch is bad. Atari and Cavia's third-person action game is so bad, in fact, that I don't even feel like it deserves a flowery introduction. Toss in a terrible game engine, embarrassing graphics, and don't forget to leave out all of the A.I. You're bubbling up a stew of Bullet Witch, kiddies!

Protagonist Alicia is busy running around killing demons after years of horrible events wipe out the vast majority of humankind. She's quiet but she's got a sharp attitude and a hot trigger finger. This is the premise of Bullet Witch, and very little else is explained as the game progresses. Alicia doesn't like demons. She wants to kill them. It's that simple.

Unfortunately, it actually isn't that simple. Alicia, despite being an attractive heroine, controls like a grumpy old man with a crooked walker. She's got some nimble dodge moves mapped to the Xbox 360's L trigger, and these moves let her avoid everything short of exploding cars, falling objects, and snipers that are evidently so sharp that they can nail her mid-jump. In other words, you won't be avoiding much as you hop around wildly and steer your cow-like character around the levels.

You also won't be shooting much; the game's collision detection seems random at best. I would often stand a few paces from an enemy, unloading a machine gun's entire magazine only to watch the enemy mow down Alicia using his machine gun. Lame. The collision detection rears its ugly face anytime the game's "Walnut Head" enemies come around. Walnut Heads are floating bodies with huge, pulsating brains-they control magical barriers that Alicia has to break down to continue through the levels, meaning that fighting Walnut Heads is mandatory. Walnut Heads have the power of telekinesis and telepathically throw cars and other huge objects at Alicia, commonly killing her before she's even spotted them.

Alicia can use her broom-like gun (imagine that) to kill enemies, and the player can even change the gun into different forms. By finishing levels, you earn skill points and can upgrade the machine gun into a shotgun, sniper rifle, or gatling gun. Unfortunately, none of the unlockable forms are as efficient as the machine gun. Since there is unlimited ammo, and Alicia doesn't seem to die quickly, there isn't much need to think while shooting. Alicia's spellcasting powers are terribly done; using the bumpers you'll scroll through different types of magic. Some magic, like the "Ancient Wall" ability, is completely useless. Ancient Walls completely obstruct your view and break down quickly. Natural set pieces like blown-up cars and corners provide much better cover. Offensive spells like meteor storms and lightning bolts are powerful but use most of your magic points and therefore can't be utilized often enough to be considered helpful. Annoyingly, animations are loaded up as Alicia conjures up her destructive powers that prevent her from avoiding any attacks whatsoever and even freeze her in place for seconds after casting. Even worse, you can't hotkey any of the magic spells to the otherwise unused directional pad-what's the deal with that?

Artificial intelligence is completely missing from this product. In the second level you encounter a few building-sized buffoons with huge machine guns; they're designed to look absolutely monumental and terrifying but are actually gentile giants. Each of them that I encountered in that level actually stopped walking toward me, stopped shooting, and calmly allowed me to shoot their pulsating hearts until they exploded and fell to the ground. I thought the first giant might be a fluke, but indeed the next ones just stopped their terror-inducing rage when they laid eyes on Alicia. The basic grunts are so incredibly stupid that they'll actually walk away from you and into walls after being shot. Still, they've got heart-they're so hell-bent on killing innocent humans that they'll ignore Alicia filling their backside with lead and lightning bolts. I've seen daddy long-legs missing all eight long legs put up more of a struggle than these brainless dolts.

Bullet Witch is among the ugliest of the Xbox 360's library. As I ran through the post-apocalyptic settings I couldn't help but think of Majesco's Xbox sleeper Phantom Dust-but even that bargain Xbox title looked better and ran better than this Xbox 360 one. There are blurry and undetailed textures everywhere, little to no particle effects as a result of shooting the ground, walls, or glass-hell, the only visually-pleasant sights are the game's menus and the trails of smoke that accompany smoldering, exploded and destroyed cars on their trip back to the ground. Remember those giants I was just going on about? After completing that level, you see a newspaper clipping with a sub-headline that reads, "Who's going to remove these giant corpses from the streets?" No one, silly! The bodies disappear when you move away from them! Other objects do the opposite, appearing as Alicia approaches their vicinity. Clipping must be one of Alicia's witchcraft powers, because she can walk through what appear to be solid chairs, tables, fire hydrants, crates-the list goes on.

All of the above problems are silhouetted by the fact that Bullet Witch is about six hours long. There are six levels, each takes about an hour to complete. Doing so earns you some Xbox 360 Achievements, but there is no way that even the most addicted Achievement freak should spend $60 on a video game that offers six levels. There are currently plans to release more content via Xbox Live, but this is a $20 product trespassing in a $60 box.

If Bullet Witch had a consistent physics engine, artificial intelligence of any kind, and even a trace of collision detection it might be an average shooter. As it is...well, in the first sentence of this review I said, "Bullet Witch is bad." I just repeated it, and it doesn't need to be said again.

I loved this

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: March 22, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I loved this game it was awsom but it was very short.

bullit witch is good not great

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: March 25, 2007
Author: Amazon User

the game is not that much cash so if your looking for a game to wast some time on it not that bad and its kinda fun but on the higher setting it gets hard to play and the bullets dont hit the mark every time

Average ...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 8 / 10
Date: March 28, 2007
Author: Amazon User

A magic-based protagonist in a post-apocalyptic world sounded intriguing for awhile. Until, that is, I got around to playing it, then I was just bored.

Let me start by saying 'Bullet Witch' is ... OK. There are worse game out there for the 360 that you could be playing. If that sounds like faint praise ... well ... frankly, it is. For any positives, I'm not sure what else to say. The game's doing just enough good to keep it from being awful, but there are a slew of problems that keep it from being good too.

The most obvious flaw I found is the A.I. It's terrible, the enemies you'll fight are just flat out dumb, usually wandering around unaware of my presence until I'm virtually on top of them.

The story's premise is pretty good, but, through the course of the game, you never really progress in it. Your character kills demons ... just because. The voice acting is also way below average.

The graphics are about average, I've seen worse (faint praise again, I know). At the same time, however, I've certainly been treated to light-years better in a third-person shooter Gears of War .

Generally, the combat system is passable, but the menu-selection style it uses for spell casting is a little clunky and kind of tough to navigate through in the middle of a battle. As was mentioned before, it's true, nothing can be hot-keyed to speed up your selection. To be fair, the elemental spells you can cast are really cool looking and one of the games high-points.

This was also brought up before, but bears mentioning again, 'Bullet Witch' is really short. A previous reviewer put the game's completion time at about six hours, that's pretty close to the mark. This is a rental, plain and simple. In all, there's enough here to justify taking a look if you're really bored and out of stuff to play, but I just can't see plunking down fifty bucks to own a copy. You'll be able to find a used copy for half of that soon enough. If you want it that bad, just wait it out.

Decent Game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 01, 2007
Author: Amazon User

If you like to shoot your way through tons of guys with a big gun, then your in the right place. Gorgeous graphics, decent magic spells, and the lead role is a chick. The only problem i found with the game is the A.I. can be kind of well..."Dumb" at times, all in all, there is some fun to be had with BulletWitch.

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