Hotline Miami

Brilliant, strange, unnerving – just buy it now!You get a phone call. It tells you that you need to go to a hotel and clean a room. You get drive there in your Delorean, don a rubber animal mask and then kill everything that moves in various brutal ways....

Hotline Miami is an intoxicating celebration of violence that will have you pounding the restart button for...

Transgressive like Grand Theft Auto hasn’t been for years, Hotline is violent, quick and compulsive but lacking in depth....

It is a rare game that dares to question why it sends us on homicidal rampages. Hotline Miami does it cleverly and subversively by casting us as a schizophrenic hitman who compulsively kills a small army of thugs for reasons even he doesn't...

In the sparsely populated kingdom of 2D top-down action titles, Hotline Miami reigns...

Hotline Miami’s momentum of mystery builds right up to its finale, where snarling cynicism is offered as a justification for why all this machinery of neon fuzz and thumping bass, bright blood and fractured identity was started up in the first place. Yet the justification is also disarmingly simple, the same reason why quarters were dropped into arcade machines built during the late ‘80s era Dennaton Games so clearly reveres. Why bother with Hotline Miami? Because it exists. Because it’s fun. Because it deserves to be played.