Paint The Town Red Review (Xbox Series S)

by Jim Smale · Published July 6, 2021 · Updated December 9, 2021

For our Paint the Town Red Review we take on this chaotic first-person melee combat game set in different locations and time periods. The voxel-based enemies can be punched, bashed, kicked, stabbed, and sliced completely dynamically using almost anything that isn’t nailed down.

Paint The Town Red Review Pros:

Pixel cube-style graphics.
3.5GB Download size.
1000 Gamerscore.
Graphics settings – brightness slider, mode (performance or resolution), framerate cap, and motion blur.
Can Invert axis and sensitivity sliders.
First-person brawler gameplay.
Three game modes – scenarios, beneath, and arena mode.
Six levels – biker bar, disco, prison, the pirate cove at day, the pirate cove at night, and saloon.
Two ways to play scenarios – challenge or standard complete with optional modifiers you select to use.
16 game modifiers – top-down, superhot, random friends, lights out, no slow-mo, living dead, slow-mo run, zero-g, weak enemies, weak player, gun show, no weapons, machete time, unlimited power, hard hitter, and shocking touch.
The arena has two ways of playing -five sets of challenges and endless mode.
Pick up and use items.
Beneath is your main mode.
Beneath has several save state slots.
Four character types to be in Beneath mode – Brawler, warlock, specter, and vanguard. Each has unique abilities and stats.
Combat – you can pick up items, punch, kick and block. Special moves charge as you play.
Comical damage to people like black eyes, cuts, chunks of head falling off, and their skeleton showing.
A lot of blood.
Arean mode is wave-based combat with one health bar.
First-person view.
Beneath is a roguelike game variant where you earn energy to buy permanent unlocks and upgrades.
Levels randomize every game in Beneath.
Room-based challenges will pop up in Beneath.