Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2 - Complete Edition

I had'nt yet written how engaging this title is if you are into the W40K universe. And if you're into RTS/4X Strategy. An excellent game, much better than the first one (Not that the first is bad, but this is much wider in scope) yet the story follows from the first one, at least Spire's story does. The campaign took me about 60 fun hours, enjoyed them all. If you doubt, get it, it's pretty cheap and one of the best warhammer games around, which are not that much abundant, I own it in other platforms too, as I would like more games simple to manage and deep to play to follow its thread. Lore is not canon I think, but to finish the despoiler story arc in such an epic way is really enjoying. It's not a truly AAA yet is much better than most of them. Give it a go and come back to me. Remember the first one is much worse, but also a decent game that is worth to play first to know the story, but you can directly get into this one, and skip the first which is also pretty cheap to get. That's it I think. Killing the tyranid mothership is also epic...if you want that achievement ;)

The base campaigns are great for W40k fans. The protagonist from the first game makes a re-appearance. From a lore perspective, the game picks up post Cadian fall and introduces Guilliman and a certain Necron collector. The Necron campaign is also hilarious as it shows the constant bickering and scheming among court factions. The Tyranid campaign shows each faction's increasingly panicked response to the growing menace.

Here I am, 55hrs played at the time of writing this review, just completed Imperium campaign. What can I say, I loved every minute and every second of this game. I loved the first one too, and the second one is even better. Where to even start ? Graphically, game looks good enough. Explosions from ships are amazing and very satisfying. Campaign is interesting and side missions were all very enjoyable for me. Voice acting is really good, Adam Howden (voice actor for Admiral Spire) really gave it all for this role. But where this game shines is the gameplay....Oh man... I love the mechanics of this game so much it's hard to put into words really. Ramming one ship into another is incredibly satisfying , you can hear the clunk of metal as you crash into another ship. Once you master stances, you can pull of amazing stuff on the battlefield. And the torpedoes man , don't get me started on those. You give it max throttle with few ships, aim the torpedoes in slow-mo, release them, do a 180 turn, get back and watch how you wreck even the mightiest of enemy ships. In summary, if you enjoyed the first game, you're gonna love this one. If you like ship combat, you're gonna love this game. For me personally, a MASTERPIECE 10/10. Easy buy even at full price.

I have the game on Steam, and suffer the same crashes with a modern Ryzen 9 7920X that players suffer with newer Intel CPUs. What I read searching the problem online was that it was still using an unpatched version of the Unreal 4 engine. Sounded like the developer fixing that may fix the game on newer hardware.