[Watch] Bulletstorm gets a Remaster and a Playable… DUKE NUKEM??

Bulletstorm is back! Released in 2011, Bulletstorm was met with strange reception. On one end, people who played it really liked the game, although many gave it criticism for its silly plot, but many gamers missed the game completely. Fortunately, the people at Gearbox saw the potential of the one-shot hero and is working with developer People Can Fly to remaster the game for 2017.

Dubbed Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition, the remaster will include a hi-res overhaul with higher polygon count, smoother framerates and 4K resolution. It also comes with the previously-released DLC along with brand-new content made just for the remaster. It will also include new modes and maps to go along with the full package.

For those who have never played Bulletstorm, People Can Fly tells the story like this:

"In Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition, players step into the boots of Grayson Hunt after a crash landing on an abandoned resort planet forces him to make a hard choice: survival or revenge. An exiled member of the elite assassin group Dead Echo, Grayson’s blind desire for vengeance finds his crew stranded on Stygia where he can finally confront the commander behind his betrayal — or get his team off the planet alive. Decimate throngs of Stygia’s mutated inhabitants, performing masterful kills throughout the single-player campaign — or one of 30 competitive score-challenge and 12 co-operative multiplayer maps — using the game’s unique “Skillshot” system, which rewards players for executing the most creative and deadly kills imaginable."

In non-salesmen terms, the game is like if you took Gears of War, complete with an over-the-top plot, put it in first-person, and then gave the player tools to pull off cool skillshots a la Tony Hawk (if Tony Hawk toted around machine guns and sniper rifles). More points are earned when more difficult skill shots are made, which can be turned in to upgrade characters.

Perhaps the most shocking part about this remaster is the edition of the King himself. What King? The King. Duke Nukem himself. Duke, complete with all-new voice work from John Saint John, is able to replace main character Greyson Hunt for a new take on the story. Come to think of it, he would fit right at home in the Bulletstorm universe.

Bulletstorm: FUll Clip Edition will release April 7, 2017, on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC.