I tend to be positive towards 2d games because they're simpler and often have more effort put into presentation and atmosphere, and this game absolutely does this well. The 1980s cop-show-thingy tone of the entire game is fantastic, and even watching videos of it make it look good.

Do not take my aesthetic-based praise to mean that this game isn't fun or interesting on a gameplay level, though. This game is extremely fun given the complexity of its enemies and how they interact with the player, my absolute favorite being the armored enemies which have a secondary "armor" bar that can be negated via specific anti-armor weapons with their own interesting tradeoffs compared to the non-armor piercing weapons. The character roster has a ton of variety too, between relatively simple characters like the Assaulter and Off Duty Guy and characters like the Breacher who has stupid damage output and health at the cost of everything else or the Shield (my personal favorite) who is so durable that she can completely negate point-blank suicide bombings. As well, levels like Flying High, Doomsday Train, and Secret Stronghold are all incredibly fun, and even with them being standouts the rest of the levels are still great. Really, the only thing that holds it back is a lack of a real story, though a story is nowhere near required for a game like this, and I'm glad they chose to ignore the story instead of adding one that might have sucked and seriously dragged down the experience.

All together, it has a wonderful aesthetic, amazing gameplay, is fun with friends (yes this game has co-op and it's good), why haven't you bought it yet?

I like kicking doors.