Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number

Gaming NexusNathan Carter

9/10

Hotline Miami 2 is everything you would expect out of the sequel. It's still as violent as ever before and best of all, it's still incredibly fun. With multiple playable characters, an interesting story, a phenomenal soundtrack, and intense gameplay, I have a feeling that Hotline Miami 2 will be on my top 10 list of games when 2015 comes to a close. Aside from a couple of issues, Hotline Miami 2 is incredibly fun and is a game that shouldn't be missed.

COGConnectedNicholas Plouffe

85/100

When Hotline Miami appeared on the scene in 2012, I was floored. It was brutal, fast-paced, and most importantly, fun. Containing a level of violence and brutality on par with Manhunt, players were instructed by eerie phone calls to go to locations and murder everyone inside. Kill everyone faster and with more variety earned you a higher score. Slip up once and you’re dead. With a storyline almost as confusing as Mullholland Drive to boot, a new cult classic was born.

GRYOnline.plKrystian Smoszna

8.5/10

Want an easy game? When you hit Hotline Miami 2, you called the wrong number. This game is much more difficult than the original and is only for fanatics of this style of play.

Gamers HeroesCasey Scheld

80/100

Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number is the type of game that will get your heart racing and test your reflexes at each and every turn. It's late-80s-early 90s-infused world proves that arcade-style gameplay isn't dead -- it just moved.

StuffTom Wiggins

Well, apart from its predecessor, and if you played that you’ll know what to expect here: lashings of ultraviolence; frantic, trial and deadly error gameplay and the best soundtrack this side of Los Santos. If you didn’t, the aim is simple: clear each stage of enemies using guns, knives, bats, iron bars and more before you can move on to the next one and do it all again. The difference is, everything in Wrong Number is bigger, tougher and nastier than before.

GameSpewRichard Seagrave

8/10

Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number is a somewhat flawed masterpiece. Addictive and brutal, it often walks the line between making you feel a sense of accomplishment and disdain. Whilst it goes out of its way to be grander than the original (and on the whole succeeds), its bigger levels and erratic difficulty unfortunately separate it from its predecessor unfavourably. Those with balls of steel and razor sharp wits will find this title immeasurably enjoyable, but those without may be driven to the end of their tether.

Playstation UniverseJohn-Paul Jones

8/10

Although Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number is more narratively ambitious than its prequel, something has been lost in the transition. The levels, while good for the most part, simply do not match up those seen in the original game. Nevertheless, Wrong Number still stands as an excellent closing act for the series all the same.

TechRaptorAlexander Baldwin

7.5/10

A decent sequel that pushes Hotline Miami to the limit. However, held back from greatness by a few niggling issues.

VideogamerSteven Burns

7/10

Reloaded.

VGChartzVGChartz Staff

6.5/10

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Game SkinnyCurtis Dillon

6/10

Hotline Miami 2 ups the ante in this ultra-violent sequel but ultimately loses a lot in the process. Wrong Number indeed.

Metro GameCentralRoger Hargreaves

5/10

A hugely disappointing sequel that seems to misunderstand what made the original gameplay great and is tediously self-indulgent when it comes to its story and violence.