History YMMV / BulletStorm

* CrossesTheLineTwice: It's even encouraged by the game to get extra points. Shoot a guy in the head with the pistol? Nothing special. Launch him in the air, then fire a sniper round into the guy's dick as he's falling down in slow motion? Kick a guy into a man-eating plant and watch as he cries in agony as he's getting eaten alive? Expose a heavy brute's butt and then fire at his crack so that he'll die farting fire? Hilarious.

** The RegeneratingHealth system. Ironic that a game who's dev team loved to take the piss out of modern military shooters at every opportunity would utilize one of its most iconic gameplay elements. Especially since the standard model of regenerating health that it uses encourages defensive play by hiding behind cover, which flies in the face of the hyper-aggressive, "kill everything as awesomely as possible" style of play that the skillshot system encourages.
* SpiritualAdaptation: ''Bulletstorm'' is considered to be a better ''VideoGame/DukeNukem'' game than ''VideoGame/DukeNukemForever''. The main character, Grayson, is seen as a throwback to protagonists like Duke and his ilk. It's even more ironic now, since the ''[[UpdatedRerelease Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition]]'' has Duke Nukem as a playable character. There are others that see it as an [=FPS=] version of ''VideoGame/MadWorld'' or ''VideoGame/Wild9'' due to use of TheJoysOfTorturingMooks, VideoGameCrueltyPotential, and a [[YouWillNotEvadeMe electric, leash weapon]].
* WhatAnIdiot: Grayson and the rest of Dead Echo worked for Sarrano for years before realizing his wet-work was straightforward political assassinations rather than anti-heroic public service hits. This is the same Sarrano who [[ObviouslyEvil never once tries]] to put on a [[VillainWithGoodPublicity good show face]], entices his mercenaries to get creative with their kills, is openly racist, misogynistic, and sadistic, and responds to Dead Echo's accusations that murdering an investigative journalist was wrong with (paraphrasing) "well yeah, what did you think you were doing, dipshits?" An absolutely epic case of HorribleJudgeOfCharacter.
** Also, pretty much everything related to the Resort on [[DeathWorld Stygia]]. To whit:
*** Building a resort on a DeathWorld bombarded with high levels of gamma radiation.
*** Staffing the resort's maintenance team with cheap prison labor and putting the prison labor in charge of maintaining the radiation filters that keep said aforementioned radiation from affecting everyone in the resort.
*** Dumping the extremely toxic radioactive waste that is created as a byproduct of the filters in the prison cells with the inmates (it was just supposed to be temporary before the company created a more permanent dumping ground, but that seems like a detail that probably should have been nailed down before opening).
*** The prisoners smashing the radiation filters to stop them from producing the waste in a massive display of DidntThinkThisThrough.

*** The prisoners smashing the radiation filters to stop them from producing the waste in a massive display of DidntThinkThisThrough

* ScrappyMechanic: A lot of people ''really'' hate the fact that you can't jump(in spite of the fact that there's no real need to jump at any point in the game, and it would serve no real purpose) enough to turn them off the game completely.

* WhatAnIdiot: Grayson and the rest of Dead Echo worked for Sarrano for years before realizing his wet-work was straightforward political assassinations rather than anti-heroic public service hits. This is the same Sarrano who [[ObviouslyEvil never once tries]] to put on a [[VillainWithGoodPublicity good show face]], entices his mercenaries to get creative with their kills, is openly misogynist and sadistic, and responds to Dead Echo's accusations that murdering an investigative journalist was wrong with (paraphrasing) "well yeah, what did you think you were doing, dipshits?" An absolutely epic case of HorribleJudgeOfCharacter.