The new Bulletstorm trailer is incredibly not-Bulletstorm

It’s almost impressive in its tonal deficiency

Bulletstorm is a game that’s drenched in ridiculousness. Its inane over-the-top combo-centric action is complemented by its equally juvenile dialogue. Here’s a sampling of some choice quotes: “I will kill your dicks!”; “You still reek of sunbaked asshole!”; “Take a lick on the salted taint of doom, you brain-dead biker whores!”; “Trudging through that radioactive goo mutated our good general into a giant pussy.”

That is the kind of not-self-serious game Bulletstorm is. You wouldn’t know it by watching this trailer for the remaster, though. Rather than leaning into everything that defines Bulletstorm, Gearbox and P♋eople Can Fly pulled back and cut a trailer that makes it seem like nothing more than another snappy, setpiece-obsessed shooter. The choice of music is especially dissonant. 

Bulletstorm oozes machismo in an effective parody of the space marine Gears of War-like tropes that rose to prominence during the last console generation. It was underappreciated and this remaster is a second chance to revel in everything that made Bulletstorm dumb but unique. You just wouldn’t know it by watching this trailer.