Buy Tick Tock Bang Bang

I was actually looking for SUPERHOT and I saw this game and thought it was it (couldn't remember the name of th game after I saw some gameplay for it) anyways compared to SUPERHOT it's boring.

Tick Tock Bang Bang is a time manipulating FPS where you are a stunts woman and you have to do all these dodging, slow bullet time kills and all sorts of neat stunts. Yes, it’s very much inspired from Superhot, now that that’s out of the way we can actually review the game. The game has Mirror’s edge vibe as the graphics art-style is very similar to that.

Graphics:

The graphics in Tick Tock Bang Bang are very basic but that doesn’t mean the game looks bad. In fact the game looks very pretty. Graphics plain and simplistic. Sort of that minimal look going on and it’ll definitely remind you of Mirrors edge. Field of view is fully adjustable upto 120 degrees. Game is locked at 60FPS. I did have some dips, especially when a lot was going on the screen in the game with ‘Extreme’ graphics settings. I guess all those physics based calculations do take a toll on the GPU.

Sound:

The game has some nice ambient music. It’s not the best but it’s okay for such a game. There are a few lines of voice acting which are done in a good manner.

Gameplay:

Let’s get down to the main part of this game. The gameplay, and it did not disappoint me. I really loved playing this game throughout. You’re a Hollywood stunts woman named Delta T and you must go through these bunch of Hollywood stunt scenarios. When your character is stopped in place the time slows down. You can use this to dodge enemy fire and do your stunts. You can jump as well but the time only goes in real-time when you press either direction buttons. So moving forward or backward or strafing left and right are the only movements which will make the time go normally. Most missions or ‘stunts’ consist of you getting from point A to point B while dodging robots, cars, rocks, lasers etc. A few missions have you kill the enemies.

There’s a bunch of different obstacles. Your first stunt has you dodge a bunch of cars and trucks thrown at you, yes not driving, just randomly thrown at you and you must dodge them. The physics are different every time so every time you start a stunt the cars/trucks will be thrown in a different pattern. So there is no predictable pattern in most missions. The robot enemies however are placed at the same spot every time so you can strategize your movement accordingly. There’s quite a lot of missions and with workshop support you can also get more.

Delta T has a very short range electrocuting gun. For this to be effective you must be right next to the enemy. Once you kill an enemy they will drop bullets, the amount depends on the stunt you’re doing but in most of the stunts you get 1 bullet per robot killed. There’s other weapon pickups too like an EMP grenade which can be used to kill specific enemies. When an enemy is killed it explodes and these explosions can sometimes get in the way but I think that’s deliberate. It makes the game a bit more challenging as these explosions can obscure other enemies.

There’s a lot of different types of enemies, there’s an orange robot drone which shoots at you, one bullet at a time. There’s also different type of robot drone which shoots 2 bullets at a time and is purple colored. When any of these drones shoot, you can clearly see the bullets and dodge accordingly as they leave a bit of trail which can tell you the direction the bullet is traveling. There’s other types of enemies such as exploding dummies (think those headless kamikaze in Serious Sam games) who run towards you and blow up when the touch you or anything like a car/block/object. You have to either shoot to kill them or bait them to oncoming traffic/obstacles. There’s big huge rotating laser robots as well as boss fights.

A short gameplay video can be found below:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=712593244

Graphics: 8/10
Sound: 6/10
Gameplay: 9/10
Overall: 8/10

Conclusion:

A very fun game which can be extremely satisfying. Killing a whole bunch of people in slo-mo while dodging bullets like the Matrix. Dodging cars, trucks and exploding dummies and did I mention EXPLOSIONSSS?!?!?? Yes please! There’s achievements (though a bit short on achievement quantity in my opinion, only 6 achievements as of this review, maybe they’ll add more later). Workshop support so you can download other people’s creations.

+Some unique original levels
+More SUPERHOT as the game is clearly 'inspired' by it
+Game works fine, controls fine
+Level creator/workshop support

-Boring aesthetic
-Very bland sound design, practically no music
-Pickups/powerups are incredibly boring and just solve the level automatically
-Final level is overly long compared to every other level before it
-Very short game
-Reused assets from Drunken Robot Pornography
-Zero story and even the premise alone removes all sense of urgency (You're doing hollywood stunts)

Its a reasonable uniquely stunt game that feels pretty awesome

My opinion cannot be bought. A crap game is a crap game whether I was sent a key or not. Good job this is a great game! More colorful and longer in playtime than SuperHot. Runs really well. Graphics are cool. Enemies are challenging, some are genuine "WTF IS THAT MAN?!?!" moments. I was mouth open a few times. Controls are great. No game crashes. Loads up really fast. Music is good. Good difficulty curve. Price is good. Small file size for downloading. Recommended. See the attached vid with commentary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pH8j3bBTXRg

A foreword: For the sake of brevity, I'll write a summarized version of my review here on Steam. Here is the link to the longer form of the review, as well as a description of my reviewing mindset. http://pastebin.com/QeuQUmRD

Gameplay: Impossible to not compare to Superhot, but does enough different to stand apart. Various gimmicks and hazards that wouldn't be out of place in Drunken Robot Pornography really enhance level variety. Enemy design is pretty good, bosses are big and very reminiscent of DRP's. Biggest problem is the length of the game. 8/10.

Story: The entirety of the story is told in the trailer.

Graphics: Definitely a Dejobaan game visually, which I really do like. Ran at a perfect 60FPS with everything on max on my GTX 760. 5/5.

Sound: Not really much in the audio department at all. Music is very sparse, mostly ambient. 3/5.

Overall scores are: 8/0/5/3; 8.0/10.

This video features a non-biased quick look @ the game only!
There's 100% 'No commentary' allowing you to judge it's potential!
Thank you for watching:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpxhBCqu6Uc

Fans of 'Superhot' are going to love this spinoff with a twist!

Game Details:
A 30-ton garbage truck screams towards you, plowing through a sea of pedestrians. A swarm of flying drones joins the truck, pinning you down with laser fire. Now's your chance: you stop, and time slows to a trickle. You grab your gun. You aim. You fire. You weave through the lasers, and time returns to normal. Your bullets speed up and cut your enemies to shreds. As the garbage truck slams into the wall behind you, you turn to the camera for your one-liner: "Time to take out the trash." You're going to look great on the big screen.

I liked it - it's cool! I found the various different ways in which the time freezing mechanic was used over the levels was interesting and fun and I liked the visual aesthetic too. At first you go through the basic tutorial levels quickly and then it starts to get harder with longer levels and you have to try different approaches until you nail the level. It's more like a puzzle game than an FPS, or maybe a mash up of both.

Anyway, I recommend it if you haven't tried Super Hot OR if you have tried Super Hot and want to see how the devs innovated on the mechanic.

Lots of people are fairly comparing this game to Superhot. To me, it feels like Superhot and Drunken Robot Pornography had a weird swinger evening with Crazy Taxi in a hot tub at a party with some other games they used to date back in college and after 12 months of awkward gestation and 3 months of bed rest, something with underdeveloped vocal chords and adorable vestigial wings crawled out of 1.5 of their wombs, cooing for some regurgitated meat and a spot on the leaderboard. ... ... ... uhh... ... Anyway, it once again does what Dejobaan does best, which is make games that are just generally fun to play and maybe make you giggle a little maniacally.

To anyone calling it a ripoff: If you had any idea how long it takes to actually make a game, you'd look at the release dates of the two games and say "oh, never mind." Odds are much higher they were just sitting at the same table at GDC a couple years ago listening to the same person discuss bullet time mechanics...

This game is by far one of the most fun games i have ever bought and played. In my opinion, this game is more fun than Superhot, even though it might be seen as a copy of it. The graphics are amazingly good, the levels are so much fun and everything just looks so pretty and cool. Would love to see more content from people in the workshop though!