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November 2013
 If you go left, the guys will shoot you immediately. If you go up, the guy with the bat will probably get you first. If you try to go to the room in the right, you can count on one of the two guys shooting you. Decisions, decisions . . . |  Yeah, things don't look pretty when you're done with a level. |  This room has glass everywhere that guys can shoot through. My best technique was to wait at the end of the hallway. |
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 |  In one screen a car bursts through the door and enemies poor out, with one throwing Molotov cocktails. |  |
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 |  |  I got run over by a car. |
 In one level you wake up injured in a hospital and need to escape. The hospital is being guarded by cops. In this screen my character has climbed out the window and is climbing a ledge on the outside. |  You always wear a mask on your missions, each with their own perk. This mask is a reference to the game developer Phil Fish. |  |
 An end-of-level score screen. |  I'm about to get off the elevator. |  My character is hallucinating - the dog doesn't really look like that. |
 |  |  Obligatory platinum trophy screenshot. |
Hotline Miami
I played this on PS Vita, but it's also on PS3 and PC. It looks a lot more modern during play than it does in screenshots because it's a lot smoother than older games and the animations are much more detailed. It's a top-down game where you use guns and melee weapons to clear rooms of baddies. Or are they? (Yes, probably.) You keep getting cryptic phone calls implying that you need to take out some people or else you'll be killed.
The game itself is actually pretty tough. Guys will shoot at you immediately if they see you and they don't miss. You need to come up with a plan before you enter each room or else you don't stand a chance.
As you can tell from the screenshots, the game is pretty gruesome. Your character starts hallucinating as a result of all of the violence he has committed, and this doesn't help things. Though the game isn't for the faint of heart, it's well made and a blast to play.
Hotline Miami is known for having a great soundtrack. Here are a few samples:
"Hydrogen" by MOON
"Perturbator" by Perturbator
"Inner Animal" by Scattle
"Knock" by Scattle
"Hotline" by Jasper Byrne