The music is fantastic again, with a great mix of 80s-style chip tune tracks that really add to the atmosphere. The grainy VHS effects have been improved and expanded, with the excellent pause menu being a great example.
Environments are more interactive, with smashable TVs, rotating carousels, and things to knock over. While it still looks like Hotline Miami, there are some improvements to the retro graphics. The variety is good, but it gives you less choice in how you play the game. One may have lethal throws, for example, or be unwilling to kill at all - forcing you to play the game differently (just as the optional masks did in the first). You will die a lot, but the instant level restart makes this painless, and allows you to use trial and error to hone your tactics.Įach character you control in the game makes you play a little differently. Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number's gameplay is superlative tight and seriously addictive, once the controls become second nature to you (and they'll have to). Enemies patrol levels mostly in a predictable fashion unless disturbed, allowing you to plan your violent route through each. The levels still play out like ultra-violent puzzles, it's still disturbing, and it's still uncommonly difficult. Like the first, each level of the game sees a character dispatched to a location in Miami, full of enemies to kill.
