SUPERHOT

For anyone who grew up with a love of action movies, Superhot's value can be found in the concept alone. The game has managed to capture the choreographed combat of classic action movies and implement this into an interactive scenario. Superhot is among the best indie games available on the Xbox One, successfully executing a unique and innovative idea.

The SUPERHOT Team managed to take what seems like a fairly simple mechanic and turn it into a game that is full of possibilities...The game is one of the most innovative shooters in years.

Those who view the story as a prelude to the many hours that can be spent in the game’s Endless and Challenge modes however, completing speed runs, seeing how long they can last against a constant stream of enemies and beating levels only using swords for example, will find a game with as much longevity as it has originality.

Superhot is a really enjoyable game, the disconnect between the gameplay and narrative only serve to intensify both.

SUPERHOT doesn't fail our expectations, managing instead to do even better thanks to the text-based OS interface going along with the innovative time-controlling FPS mechanics. An incredibly tactical game, with a great artistic design and a surprising plot. A real must buy.

A puzzle game dressed like a twisted, Cronenberg-inspired shooter, Superhot's methodical, slow-motion approach to the genre is as cerebral and deliberate as it is unhinged.

Absolutely essential.

It executes its unique and simple idea brilliantly, but yet it doesn’t do much more than that.

Superhot is an effortlessly cool, highly original take on the fist-person shooter genre. [July 2016, p.79]

Superhot‘s time manipulation is a fun mechanic that allows you to play a first person shooter in a way you couldn’t elsewhere. Despite a few shortcomings, the game does a superb job of mixing the first person shooter genre and puzzle games into entertaining experience.

It seems a bit paradoxical that SUPERHOT simultaneously plays exactly like every other shooter you’ve ever played and nothing like them at all, and yet, this is the case. Its inspired use of time makes for something that is as much a strategy or puzzle game as it is a shooter. And even though, you’ll only bring a few hours of your life to a standstill to be entertainment by SUPERHOT, those are a few hours well spent.

Superhot executes the ideas at its core without flaw, but doesn’t step very far outside of those bounds. If you’re looking for something to shake up your view of what can be done in a shooter, this is the game for you.

An original puzzle game with a great use of the bullet time. Its main mode is short and it hasn't got many modes, but its approach gives fun from the beginning to the end.

Once free of the arduous and obnoxious trappings of its main mode of play, Superhot is nothing short of a delight. At its core is a gameplay mechanic that deserves to be revisited, only next time we hope it's all held together significantly better.

Superhot is a very unique take on the first-person shooter genre, and one that deserves attention. Although it's short and has some issues, it's a welcomed addition to the Xbox One's games library.

All of the problems I encountered on Xbox One point to a slightly unoptimized experience. I would’ve tolerated the severe aliasing issues had the controls been tight but I struggled to line up shots at a distance all the time. I experienced none of this on PC.