ANGER FOOT is grotty, rude and a hell of a ride

ANGER FOOT  is pretty simple. Kick baddies or shoot them, race the clock or don’t, get to the end.

Have fun, kick ass, get killed, do it again.

It’s grotty and rude, like the scribbles of a naughty kid in high school made into a game, from South African game devs Free Lives (BROFORCE, GENITAL JOUSTING, TERRA NIL).

Damn it’s fun to die and die and die and die again, but unless you are a mad score attack player you might get your fill pretty quickly.

Kicking goals

Here is the setup, you’re a crim of Shit City, a town of crime run by the Crime Minister and the only law is that crime is legal.

It’s a weird world packed with filthy alleys, disgusting apartment blocks, with pumping speaker stacks where you just have to boot your foes to recover your favourite pair of kicks.

If you played games like Hotline Miami, this will feel pretty familiar, as you are using the environment and setting up your path through a level as you memorise the best way through.

Enemies are set in the same locations every time, so it’s all about managing that dance through each level.

Kick a grenade back at the right time to instantly kill the whole room, or even kick a bomb-headed enemy as they get close to do the same.

Often I died accidentally kicking gas tanks that were wizzing right past my screen which felt like a bummber especially as you need to start the entire run from scratch every time you die.

You’ll die, like heaps, and it’s kinda ok because you’re back into it really quickly.

Each level is really short, you’ll make it through in under a minute in most circumstances unless you’re taking it super slow.

You might just want to do that the first time through, take it slow so you can find exactly where each foe is hiding and make a plan for how you’ll tackle them.

Then there are the shoes, which give you a variety of different power ups, I’ll be extremely honest though while I did experiment with a few different abilities the Scavenger Chuck Norris knock offs served me pretty well.

Each kick earned me an extra bullet in my gun and that ended up becoming quite ludicrous by the end of the run, just spam fire if you’re in a tricky spot.

The game is super stylish you’re in a weird world with dog men, croc men, muppet men and bomb-head men are all trying to stop you from getting to the end.

It’s pretty juvenile but you know, I guess that’s the point.

Disparaging the boot is a bootable offence.

This game is going to be beloved by a certain type of player.

If you love chasing perfect runs in games or if you’re a streamer, I can see this being an instant classic.

If like me you aren’t super driven by that chase of absolute mastery, I think you’ll get your fill pretty quickly

That’s not to say that it isn’t good, it’s definitely super fun and fast and visceral in a way that feels like it’d be so good to watch someone else on the couch play, but for me I was pretty happy with what time I had with it.

And if you are like me, it’s reasonable to say you’ll be kicking ass in ANGER FOOT for a good time, but maybe not a long time.

A copy of ANGER FOOT on PC was provide to SIFTER for the purpose of this review.