Vampire Hunters, created by Gamecraft Studios, is a first-person shooter that takes aim at the legion of the undead with the funny concept of “more guns are better,” and we would all have experienced the hassle of swapping weapons to find your gun of choice at some stage in an FPS game, but not anymore!

As you earn guns in Vampire Hunters, it becomes part of your active loadout. If you ever wanted to use a flamethrower, an SMG, and a Shotgun at the same time, this is the game for that.

The gameplay concept is simple enough. Walk down a long hallway, blasting anything that gets your way, picking up orbs to power up your arsenal to make you into a one-man army. In terms of difficulty, you will die a few times, as it’s quite easy to get swarmed by the enemy, but that is part of the experience.

When you die, you’ll have a chance to spend the gold you earn to upgrade base stats like firepower, reload speed, and health, or give yourself a better chance of unlocking and buying different starting weapons. Because of this, it offers plenty of replay value, making you work to unlock everything and find the hidden items that drop off enemies.

While there is plenty of replayability, there are only four levels in the game, not counting the training mission. It also doesn’t seem to really offer any kind of story, it’s just a good, old-fashioned arcade shooter, but it would be fun to play with friends, competing to see who can get a higher score on a level.

The graphics are a little lacking, so please be aware of this, especially if you’re the kind of person who buys games without looking into them first. The assets used are fairly common, with small changes to enemies such as using different colours or making them bigger to show it is a harder target, but the audio does offer a nice Castlevania-like soundtrack, and this feels like it fits, given you are hunting vampires and all.

While the controls are easy, using a mouse click for the pew-pews, and spacebar used to jump, the sprint feature is one to be aware of. Sure, you are getting into the level faster, but you’re also spawning more enemies the deeper you get in, so don’t just go sprinting ahead until you have geared up first. In the options, if you really wanted to, you can turn on features like auto-firing and auto-targeting, but it will reduce your score at the end of the run for having the feature active.

Vampire Hunters adds a new level to gun glory by filling the screen with as many weapons as you could ever want, using them to slaughter the legion of the dead. Given how short the levels are, I found it easy to just sit down and play it, without needing to think about what was really going on. With no major gameplay mechanics, it does get repetitive walking down a hallway and shooting guns.

Honestly, my first thought was the “We have ‘X’ at home” meme. This is like asking your parents if you can buy DOOM – it’s the “at-home” version. It is fun for small sessions, but for long play sessions, it can be rather dull. The lineup of weapons is impressive, but this doesn’t give it enough stay to turn over a high score.

Written by: Shane Walsh