I'd seen a lot of videos of "Bullet Witch" on Youtube, and after most of them, it looked a lot to me like Devil May Cry, or Ninja Gaiden with guns and a woman. The problem, is that Bullet Witch isn't like either of them, and sadly, she's a lot uglier than both.
To start, the story is that you are a witch, dressed in black, with a huge gun that is actually 4 different guns combined. She is sent to protect the little bit of people left in the world in the year 2013, due to such things such as Disease, mutation, Natural Disasters. There's more to it, but if I say anymore, I would have told you the ENTIRE STORY. The games ending is terrible, it's not an ending at all. The entire game is like some Prologue to a game which god I hope NEVER gets a sequel.
As far as gameplay goes, I've seen better gameplay in worse games. The game is hard to play, why....well I had the game installed to my Hard Drive, and the Frame Rate would still drop increasingly when nothing was happening. I was in a sewer level with two monsters on screen, and the frame rate dropped so much, that the game froze, and before you blame my xbox, it happened on my friend's NEW xbox as well, in a similar area.
The sound is lame, the weapons sound pretty much the same, just quirked a little to sound different. The voice acting is poor, the 2 characters that have a part in the cutscenes have no feeling to their voices and sound like zombies. Most of the talking the main character does, is usually when she is casting a spell, otherwise she is quiet.
The game has no sense to itself. The "Bullet Witch", is supposedly a witch, but in my opinion, and some facts, she seems more human than anything. Alicia (That's her name), can die getting a car thrown at her, when most people know folk lore for witches is that they need to be burned before they can actually die or be killed. She can't fly, she has a giant gun that looks a lot like a broomstick, but is more of a boomstick. It's a shotgun, Rifle, "Sniper Rifle" (It doesn't actually zoom in like a real sniper rifle), and a gatling gun. All of which surprisingly do well in battle. Witches aren't supposed to like humans, as they hate everyone as folk lore also teaches us, but the witch in this game gets a hard on for humans.
Finally, the A.I., the worst part of the game. As my Stranglehold review, the A.I. is the same. The enemies will either stand still shooting at you, which is terrible as they can't even hit me if I am standing still, or there is the somewhat successful enemies that run right at me shooting, and can actually do some damage, pending I don't have my shotgun ready to blow their brains out. There were even times that if I had to reload due to a car killing me too many times, that in certain parts of the level, the A.I. was in standby, as if it didn't detect me approaching, resulting in easy kills for me.
Sadly, this game was made by a developer that I for one never heard of. If it was developed by someone more known to gamers, perhaps it would have been a more stable game. The game is good to buy used, as it might take a couple days just to beat easy mode, and get the 15 hour achievement if you go for them, but if you just want to play through it one time, so you can learn the rest of the story I didn't mention, than rent it.
3 Stars.
3.0