Reviewers Liked
- Complex storytelling themes interwoven with gameplay
Reviewers Didn't Like
- Tiresome and clichéd jokes present for shock value
Mother Russia Bleeds
72
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My brother is a big fan of what I consider “B Tier” action movies. The kind that take themselves so seriously and tell a ham-fisted story with narrative gaps galore. But that's not what you're there for. You rented it to watch a badass mowing down an...
By nintendoworldreport.com on
80
This is not a game for the faint of heart and some might even find its lack of taste, especially in later levels, appalling. But for those who appreciate nasty aesthetics as well as amusing-if-simplistic action, Mother Russia Bleeds is a fun time.
By GameInformer on
65
When I recall some of my fondest memories of gaming when I was young, one that comes to mind is how me and a friend of mine would beat Turtles in Time on SNES at least once a week.Sure, we were poor kids and didn't have many games to play at the time,...
By ztgd.com on
80
There was a time when the beat'em up genre ruled the video game world. Back during the 90's arcade craze, games like Final Fight, TMNT, X-Men, and Double Dragon would draw groups of people for hours on end. Battling through hordes of enemies alongside...
By Gaming Nexus on
50
Mother Russia Bleeds brings drug use, killing animals and women, and loads of gore to the beat'em up genre, but lacks originality and is riddled with...
By CGM on
70
Mother Russia Bleeds is probably the strangest 2D title since Dropsy, so if you’re the type of person who wants their pixel-art to be shocking, then this is the game for you. It’s a shame that so much of the moment-to-moment combat feels like an exercise in button-mashing, as there’s a weird dichotomy in such an interesting world playing host to somewhat uninteresting gameplay. Still, anyone looking for drug-induced 2D violence is going to have a hard time passing Mother Russia Bleeds up.
By HardcoreGamer on
70
There is nothing subtle about Mother Russia Bleeds . Heads explode into clouds of pulp, riots erupt in city squares, and prisons become Jackson Pollock paintings of blood, corpses, and human bile. In short, Mother Russia Bleeds is an exercise in...
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By Tom's Guide onBeyond that, this is a game that has simply swapped one set of clichés - the US-centric mean streets of Final Fight and Streets of Rage - for another: Soviet brutality and poverty. There is undeniably sport to be had here, but no redemption, either for the characters, the players or the genre.
By EuroGamer on
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