Bombshell Reviews
Bombshell ist ein amüsantes und action-geladenes Action RPG für Zwischendurch, bietet aber wenig Wiederspiel-wert und weist leider auch noch nach dem Release einiges an Balancing-Problemen und technischen Schnitzern auf. Für Fans von Duke Nukem und co. gibt es eine klare Empfehlung von uns, ansonsten bietet der Titel leider zu wenig um als wirkliches Must-Have durchzugehen.
Review in German | Read full review
To put it bluntly, Bombshell is a dud.
Bombshell is a fast-paced, energetic, deliberately absurd action shooter that's mostly competent at everything it tries to do. Stunningly crafted, downright epic environments and tight, responsive gamepad controls steal the show. But it certainly doesn't pull off anything innovative or revolutionary, and the whole experience is dragged down by spiky difficulty, half-baked RPG mechanics, and poorly constructed (though varied) boss battles.
Bombshell sports impressive shooting and a stylish presentation, but the game's takes on exploration and narrative ultimately drag down the experience.
ll shows a worrying lack of polish in spots. The UI is often too small to hold all of its own information. Sometimes my health bar just outright lied to me. It's often unclear which gaping holes in the ground are part of a texture and which will instantly kill you if you fall through them.
An ARPG with weak combat and too many bugs, Bombshell isn't worth your click-click-clicks.
Bombshell isn't the worst game I've ever played, but it's among the most dull and uninteresting. From its cheesy, late-90s alien blasting plot to its absolutely repetitive action, it's tough to pull out any redeeming qualities. Even assuming its bevy of technical issues get ironed out, this one still isn't worth your time.
This femme fatale steps up where Duke could not. As an isometric shooter, Bombshell is fast paced, full of tongue in cheek humour, and offers a wonderfully vivid world to blow up.
I do not recommend you play this game.
Bombshell is a disastrous mix of monotonous gameplay, annoying bugs, and atrocious writing.
Every once in a while, during a taught firefight that actually necessitates mixing and matching weapons (the shotgun alt fire, a stun gun, is possibly too useful), there are glimpses of a solid shooter let down by everything else around it. As it stands, playing Bombshell for more than an hour at a time is like ingesting a sedative, save for flashes of rage as you fall through the map one more time or are asked to find six more crystals.
Playing Bombshell is like a horrible online date. They had a great profile and pictures, but as soon as you sit down with them, you realize that there's nothing beneath the surface except crazy.
Bombshell sadly shows its origins, age and bad design choices. It feels dated on release, has too little variety and requires too much back tracking, though this doesn't mean that you can't have some fun with the action, combined with a great selection of hard rock music.
Bombshell is an overpriced buggy mess of a game, don't shell out money for this bomb.
As much as I wanted to love Bombshell, and in some ways do despite its flaws, I cannot recommend the game in its current state.
Bombshell is a relatively decent twin-stick shooter. It most certainly isn't an action role-playing game, like its marketing claims. It's also weighed down by its shoddy story delivery and by its tedious stages. Some players can have fun with it but, especially at its 35 USD/EUR, it's not worth the investment.
A tongue-in-cheek shooter that isn’t as explosive as it should be
Bombshell is a broken, boring action game with a tin ear for humour and action that rarely rises above tedium.