Death Rattle - Hell Unleashed

Mindless shooting and blowing things up can only get you so far. Death Rattle is once again another Boom-Shoot done in the vein of the likes of Heretic and Hexen, and much like the highly revered and recent Amid Evil, offers large-scale environments and massive waves of enemies that 90’s PC’s had no chance in hell of rendering. And much unlike Amid Evil, heavily focuses on environmental destruction to great effect! And… that’s kind of it. Sadly, Death Rattle is a one-trick pony that delivers mindless waves of enemies to chuck grenades at, launch devastating spells into and piledrive hundreds of arrows from your trusty crossbow into which it delivers in spades, while weapon variety, enemy behavior and even difficulty is sadly lacking. You only ever have a crossbow at your disposal and with only two tracks of a tranquil piano and a heavy thrash of the guitar make for very shallow and repetitive combat despite the large-scale destruction and chaos you can wreak. Combat is also dragged down by an endless wave of resources, where even breaking empty crates gives you all the means to recruit your own army, with some levels giving me roughly 30-60 Mana and Health Potions per level fr…

Not good.

A small amount of thoughts on [b]Death Rattle - Hell Unleashed [/b] I got to know this game some time ago when i saw the creators youtube video with the title "My Ambitious Indie Game Failed, This Is Why!", then some weeks ago. I saw a video by Indie Game Clinic with the title "Why These 2 Indies REALLY Failed - Game Designer Reacts" that featured that video again. And then i saw this game a third time during steam summer sale. It was rather cheap so i though "oh well, that's a good opportunity to check it out and see how my opinion compares to that of an expert and the creator. Often games under deliver financially even if they are solid, so there was a chance....And sometimes a gamble does not pay off. I would have had 2 hours before the refund period ends, but i ended this after 10 minutes and the first fights. - really really weak gunplay - weapons that clip into the walls - no control settings - no useful audio settings - no UI scaling but small interfaces on HD resolution - invisible walls leveldesign None of the systems, the crafting and whatever there is can save this when it plays like this. Not a recommend.

This is probably the least time I have ever spent with a game before writing a review, but I just got incredibly stuck on the Mine level and could not figure out how to get through it for the life of me. So here we are. On the plus side I really like the visuals and atmosphere of Death Rattle. It has an almost metal vibe to it what with the Hellish, skull ridden, and occasional guitar riffs. The issues, unfortunately were just too many to overcome. First off, the lack of accessibility options was a real killer for me. I'm far from heavily disabled, but I do have motor skill issues, and the inability to rebind keys made this game literally painful for me to play. Hitting the middle mouse button is hard for me, which is why I own a mouse with two thumb buttons, one of which is always mapped to whatever the middle mouse button was supposed to be. The melee button is also more or less impossible for me to hit, with again, no option to assign that to something more logical. And worst of all for me, is the run button. It is shift like in most games, which is fine. But there is never a reason to not run in this game. There is no stamina, it doesn't seem to effect your accuracy, and your d…

Great game. Looks great and plays well. Interesting world and creature design, would love to see more of the Ulliadore universe in the future! In your future games, please consider adding keybindings.

Worth a couple of bucks to kill some demons https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20N8WAZcZMA