Recent reviews by Tash

Boltgun is not hard.

Full disclosure, I completed this on normal difficulty; not too hard, not too easy. I see a lot of complaints on Plebbit and other sites that it's hard even on normal, which is genuinely nonsense.

Boltgun was one of a spate of games in the boomer shooter genre that came out in the same timeframe, and therein lies the secret. This isn't an ultra-tactical battlefight shooter. If you take it super slow and screw around there are points where the game will paddle your ass raw. Keep moving. Take resources. Reload. Shoot, shoot, shoot again. Occasionally enemies will get close, so punish them with your chainsword and keep going. If you stand around you'll get overwhelmed. Every fortification is temporary. You are the Emperor's Angel of Death, and you need no such things for long.

It's exciting and action-packed. If you like boomer shooters, I highly recommend this one.

Word of advice: gib enemy corpses if you can. Champions can't revive if they're dismembered and Pink Horrors also can't divide if they're dismembered. There is never too much violence.

It's not a complex game. It's a game for violencing monsters as a British person so British that you need a pith helmet. You're so British that Zulus and Frenchmen in the real world shudder whenever you boot up the game. It could only be more British if you had Astartes powered armor painted over with the flags of the union states and an iron halo that projects a hologram of the Queen over your head. Your sole purpose in being this intensely British is to kill monsters. It's great. It's like how every horror movie should end; with a chorus of English accents heralding the death of the big bad in a furious orgy of kinetic reason.

Also the SCAR sounds sort of like a boltgun. Also also, BUY ARMOR.

One of the few games which will uncompromisingly allow destruction fit to make a hippy froth with weak, vegan rage while preserving an almost sterile 'a colonel is you' RTS style. Very fun, needs a bit of tweaking since sacrificing two hundred infantry in a boneheaded flank rush would no result in a handful of lost points in real life, and is exploitable as all hell in game.

Let's assume you know nothing about Warhammer 40k; let's take this at face value. You are a superhuman warrior, created by a Godlike being known as 'the Emperor', to defend mankind. Your armor is impervious to weapons that would rip a human being's arm off; your primary weapon is a bulky assault rifle which fires .75 caliber, rocket propelled grenade bullets, while your primary melee weapon is a chainsaw sword.

Your enemies include Orcs in space, larger Orcs in space, demons from Hell, corrupted Marines and regular humans, and more Orcs in space(WITH ROCKETS NOW AAAAA).
In the course of fighting them, you destroy an orbital spire with a nuclear fusion cannon powered by the essence of Hell, which is also your main method of FTL.

This game is rad and gives not a single crap for reason. It's what Doom 3 should have been.

(It really says something that it's the grim dark future but at least we've managed to eliminate gender roles, even if most soldiers are still dudes.)

Is this a great game?

No. The plot is thin and serves mainly as a vehicle for you to shoot at mans.

Is that a bad thing?

Not necessarily; the scenery is great and the weapons are recognisable in form and function.
It's a lot of fun to play online and the bots can be amusing as hell too.

If you want a nice science fiction shooter without hours of plot that gets in the way of putting a knife in a space marine's face, this will keep you for a while.

P.S. never play this with a trackball mouse aaaaaaaa

This is not your typical Brick Protagonist shooter, so let me tell you why this game is the best thing;

I was given a mission to terminate an enemy convoy. I immediately set about deploying mines on the road, then I placed satchel charges in a line, so the explosions would overlap.

The enemy convoy appears; one BMP-2 in front, followed by four Ural trucks and one BMP-2 in the back. The lead BMP runs straight over the mines and stops, literally smoking; the crew evacuates.

It is at this moment that I detonate the satchel charges, destroying their crew and two ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ trucks.

I whip out an AT4 and pop rockets into the final two trucks, but the remaining, unmolested BMP-2 has other ideas; it sweeps my position with a hail of 7.62mm, crippling my legs and sending me to the ground.

I have one magazine in my M4. I can't use my AT4 from a prone position.
The surviving enemy infantry are moving into the town.

I CRAWLED MY CRIPPLED ASS BACK TO THE BOAT, OVER 300m. Under fire.

Buy this.

Would you like to walk the wastes as a man-machine hybrid?
Would you like to enforce order with a wide variety of weapons, though you'll probably only use the minigun?
Do shotguns arouse you?

This is the game for you.
P.S. You can punch mutant bears to death.