Highlights
- Anger Foot developer Free Lives has mentioned that its new chaotic first-person shooter was closely impressed by Hotline Miami.
- Free Lives additionally says it checked out quite a few “door entry” video games in the course of the conceptual section, equivalent to SWAT 4.
- Numerous gameplay mechanics, equivalent to upgradeable sneakers, had been clearly impressed by Hotline Miami.
A brand-new, chaotic first-person shooter with a twist hit Steam earlier this week. Anger Foot is a fast-paced motion sport that developer Free Lives says was closely impressed by the likes of Hotline Miami and SWAT 4.
Initially introduced again in June 2022, Anger Foot was initially attributable to launch in 2023. However, as a part of a particular Devolver Delayed showcase (sure, Devolver had a showcase devoted to all of its delayed video games), the writer introduced that Anger Foot had been pushed again into 2024. The studio then shoe-d off (get it?) a brand-new trailer at Devolver Digital 2024 and confirmed the first-person shoe-ter (sorry) can be hitting Steam on July 11.
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On the time of writing, Anger Foot has a “very constructive” evaluate badge on Steam and a fairly modest Metacritic rating of 77. Our sister website The Gamer known as it a “well-placed, neatly designed” shooter that “provides you all of the instruments you want to tailor the expertise to your style.”
Now, in a brand new interview with Sport Rant, Free Lives developer Luc Wolthers has talked a little bit bit about the place the studio discovered inspiration for this wacky new shooter. In keeping with Wolthers, Anger Foot’s derelict and crime-ridden world takes quite a lot of inspiration from one other one in all writer Devolver Digital’s titles: Hotline Miami.
“Hotline Miami undoubtedly does kind an enormous a part of the inspiration, particularly in terms of the type of the sport and form of a seedy, underground, derelict world replete with crime,” Wolthers mentioned.
If you happen to’ve already had the chance to take a look at Anger Foot, you’ve got seemingly already picked up on the Hotline Miami influences. The core gameplay loop of clearing out room after room with fixed fast-paced motion provides you an prompt Hotline Miami really feel, but it surely’s additionally Anger Foot’s upgradeable sneakers which might be a transparent homage to Hotline Miami’s masks. Each of which permit the participant to unlock particular skills when upgraded.
But it surely’s not simply Hotline Miami that served as an inspiration for Anger Foot. Wolthers additionally instructed Sport Rant that Free Lives checked out numerous “door entry” video games in the course of the conceptual section of Anger Foot. One of many video games that impressed the studio probably the most was 2005’s tactical shooter, SWAT 4.
“However, fact be instructed, Robbie and I regarded so much at SWAT 4 and different “door entry” video games once we had been initially contemplating how we had been going to deal with Anger Foot,” Wolthers instructed Sport Rant.
Anger Foot is out now on PC through Steam.
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