Despite having only clocked in 4~ hours as of this review, I have to agree with the many others. For awhile it was peeving me that this was a mixed game on launch, but I can also understand where people where coming from.

For 40k fans, its the game everyone has been waiting for, a FPS tagged 40k title without it being near-insufferable or overly average. Its fun, it has the arsenal that everybody wants, which includes bolters, lasguns, plasma guns, and even other more not so seen yet just as important guns, such as autoguns and stubbers. Hell you can even wield a heavy bolter (and feel how unwield-ly powerful it is) early on in the campaign (and you get to keep it!). For me its what I wanted since a wee lad, to fire a lasgun in a good 40k FPS. And, I think too that the weaponry depicted is pretty lore-friendly, lasguns feel powerful considering for the most part you're hitting unarmored Necromunda punks, and bolters have the recoil that only an Astartes can shrug off.

The visuals as well are stunning, everything is 40k, but its also in Necromunda, so just think of the environment as a Mad Max hellscape with nth amounts of skulls and worship. And as stated, it's paired with a pretty good structure of a game, every new element in singleplayer FPS titles is pretty much here, such as wall running, grappling hooks, double jumping and dashing. It's implemented well enough to feel smooth enough.

And before I go into the cons, I'll say this. It's rough and I can see some people brushing it off as another cram-game that GW just shoved out. Its not, I know you may be hesitant but trust me, this is at least worth a glance at. Despite the following jank, it's not troublesome enough to feel as though another title ripped me off just because I wanted to experience one of my fav universes.

So with that, it's polished here and there, but the rough parts are really rough. For now of course, there are crashes, bugs, freezes, and glitches (and even some sequence breaking bugs). And on top of that, the animations, characters, and voice acting are at best corny, at worst jank. Your mastiff too, even while upgraded is unfortunately pretty weak. As for the AI, sometimes they bring their A-game, and sometimes you can just snipe them as they stand there taking it.

But those'll be hopefully ironed out somewhere down the line (bug-wise). What's left is a good structure for gameplay. It has a nice arsenal to play around with, it has a pretty fantastic loop of just exploding people with bolts or popping them with lasfire, and on hard difficulty it does give a challenge that forces you to utilize everything you have. Think of this as some strange DooM Eternal incarnation that was surrounded by 40k miniatures and codexes and was given not even half the budget to make. Still good, but still rough.

In the end, I think it's well worth the price. It's a solid 40 dollar title, and you get to venture into 40k places that aren't depicted all that much in other titles. It'll be cleaned up somewhere down the line and we'll be left with a nice, jank 40k adventure. Hopefully further additions would be tacked on, such as DLC, missions packs or what have you. Even if that doesn't come along, I think what we got is pretty damn good. For 40k fans, it's a dream, for shooter fans wondering what they're looking at, just get it on sale and see what you think.

Despite having only clocked in 4~ hours as of this review, I have to agree with the many others. For awhile it was peeving me that this was a mixed game on launch, but I can also understand where people where coming from. For 40k fans, its the game everyone has been waiting for, a FPS tagged 40k title without it being near-insufferable or overly average. Its fun, it has the arsenal that everybody wants, which includes bolters, lasguns, plasma guns, and even other more not so seen yet just as important guns, such as autoguns and stubbers. Hell you can even wield a heavy bolter (and feel how unwield-ly powerful it is) early on in the campaign (and you get to keep it!). For me its what I wanted since a wee lad, to fire a lasgun in a good 40k FPS. And, I think too that the weaponry depicted is pretty lore-friendly, lasguns feel powerful considering for the most part you're hitting unarmored Necromunda punks, and bolters have the recoil that only an Astartes can shrug off. The visuals as well are stunning, everything is 40k, but its also in Necromunda, so just think of the environment as a Mad Max hellscape with nth amounts of skulls and worship. And as stated, it's paired with a pretty good structure of a game, every new element in singleplayer FPS titles is pretty much here, such as wall running, grappling hooks, double jumping and dashing. It's implemented well enough to feel smooth enough. And before I go into the cons, I'll say this. It's rough and I can see some people brushing it off as another cram-game that GW just shoved out. Its not, I know you may be hesitant but trust me, this is at least worth a glance at. Despite the following jank, it's not troublesome enough to feel as though another title ripped me off just because I wanted to experience one of my fav universes. So with that, it's polished here and there, but the rough parts are really rough. For now of course, there are crashes, bugs, freezes, and glitches (and even some sequence breaking bugs). And on top of that, the animations, characters, and voice acting are at best corny, at worst jank. Your mastiff too, even while upgraded is unfortunately pretty weak. As for the AI, sometimes they bring their A-game, and sometimes you can just snipe them as they stand there taking it. But those'll be hopefully ironed out somewhere down the line (bug-wise). What's left is a good structure for gameplay. It has a nice arsenal to play around with, it has a pretty fantastic loop of just exploding people with bolts or popping them with lasfire, and on hard difficulty it does give a challenge that forces you to utilize everything you have. Think of this as some strange DooM Eternal incarnation that was surrounded by 40k miniatures and codexes and was given not even half the budget to make. Still good, but still rough. In the end, I think it's well worth the price. It's a solid 40 dollar title, and you get to venture into 40k places that aren't depicted all that much in other titles. It'll be cleaned up somewhere down the line and we'll be left with a nice, jank 40k adventure. Hopefully further additions would be tacked on, such as DLC, missions packs or what have you. Even if that doesn't come along, I think what we got is pretty damn good. For 40k fans, it's a dream, for shooter fans wondering what they're looking at, just get it on sale and see what you think.