Mayhem 3 - What it is?
Mayhem 3 has a long and not so interesting history. Long story short: it's been in development for over 2 years and started out as a completely different game. Almost nothing remains from that time, however, as everything has been revamped over and over.
As it is today, Mayhem 3 is an excessive, unabashedly violent and epic platformer that prides itself on "style over substance." That doesn't really mean anything, but it's pretty catchy, eh? The style comes in through the diving system. Double tap a direction and you'll be sent hurdling through the air, guns blazing at will. You will hardly ever lose control over your actions, and there's hardly a moment you can't pick a direction and blast away.
Mig Carter comes home from a lovely taco dinner to find a man from the future laying on the ground and spilling blood all over his carpet! What's a man to do? Well, turns out giant bunnies (How wacky) gave him his wound, and apparently they went back in time with him to do some Terminator-like, history changing shit. The man, John Bullets, hero of Mayhem 1 and 2, of which you haven't played and never will, obviously cannot stop them with such a large, gaping hole in his pancreas, but Mig! Mig is a strapping young lad! He can handle some guns! He can save humanity!
Is it an action game? Is it a platformer? Is it some freak combination of both? Well, yeah, the last option. You'll have some epic shootouts sure enough, with dozens of different weapons and multitudes of enemies (bunny and non-bunny), but there's also going to be a fair amount of hopping and dodging. After you complete a stage, you can revisit it later and maybe unlock a few secrets with the new weapons you've picked up. Maybe you're just going for the high score, who knows? Each stage has a gimmick, so if the combat won't do it for you, the variety and creativity might just. One minute you'll be guiding employees to their respective pimps to open the toll booth, and the next you just might be dodging for cover as acid rain pours down.
The natural sense of humor is prevalant, and you might spot a few pop-culture references, but at the end of the day this is a SERIOUS GAME ABOUT GIANT BUNNIES TAKING OVER THE WORLD. I run a no-nonsense shift! Lots of cutscenes and dialogue planned and written, though. Some of it might make you giggle, but don't do it in front of me because this is SERIOUS DRAMA FROM THE HEART. You'll face a veritable plethora of cunning foes, each with such nuance and depth! Like Sgt. Hoppy, who runs the 4th division rabbit soldier training facility. He lost his father, man. At an early age! That shit will turn you to a life of crime!
So prepare to go to war with the bunnies. Prepare to cross the desert, travel the abandoned highway, go through the old factories, traverse the city, navigate the criminal underworld, escape from the evil genius' lair and dig deep into the bunnies' nest. But I haven't actually finished any of these areas, so do me a favor and hold your breath while you wait for Mayhem 3!
As it is today, Mayhem 3 is an excessive, unabashedly violent and epic platformer that prides itself on "style over substance." That doesn't really mean anything, but it's pretty catchy, eh? The style comes in through the diving system. Double tap a direction and you'll be sent hurdling through the air, guns blazing at will. You will hardly ever lose control over your actions, and there's hardly a moment you can't pick a direction and blast away.
Mig Carter comes home from a lovely taco dinner to find a man from the future laying on the ground and spilling blood all over his carpet! What's a man to do? Well, turns out giant bunnies (How wacky) gave him his wound, and apparently they went back in time with him to do some Terminator-like, history changing shit. The man, John Bullets, hero of Mayhem 1 and 2, of which you haven't played and never will, obviously cannot stop them with such a large, gaping hole in his pancreas, but Mig! Mig is a strapping young lad! He can handle some guns! He can save humanity!
Is it an action game? Is it a platformer? Is it some freak combination of both? Well, yeah, the last option. You'll have some epic shootouts sure enough, with dozens of different weapons and multitudes of enemies (bunny and non-bunny), but there's also going to be a fair amount of hopping and dodging. After you complete a stage, you can revisit it later and maybe unlock a few secrets with the new weapons you've picked up. Maybe you're just going for the high score, who knows? Each stage has a gimmick, so if the combat won't do it for you, the variety and creativity might just. One minute you'll be guiding employees to their respective pimps to open the toll booth, and the next you just might be dodging for cover as acid rain pours down.
The natural sense of humor is prevalant, and you might spot a few pop-culture references, but at the end of the day this is a SERIOUS GAME ABOUT GIANT BUNNIES TAKING OVER THE WORLD. I run a no-nonsense shift! Lots of cutscenes and dialogue planned and written, though. Some of it might make you giggle, but don't do it in front of me because this is SERIOUS DRAMA FROM THE HEART. You'll face a veritable plethora of cunning foes, each with such nuance and depth! Like Sgt. Hoppy, who runs the 4th division rabbit soldier training facility. He lost his father, man. At an early age! That shit will turn you to a life of crime!
So prepare to go to war with the bunnies. Prepare to cross the desert, travel the abandoned highway, go through the old factories, traverse the city, navigate the criminal underworld, escape from the evil genius' lair and dig deep into the bunnies' nest. But I haven't actually finished any of these areas, so do me a favor and hold your breath while you wait for Mayhem 3!
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