Necromunda: Hired Gun

Its good fun, a mixture of DOOM gameplay and jank. Others have complained of game breaking bugs, but for me they have been minimal, with frame rate drops much better since the update. Iv had plenty of fun, found it comfy. The aesthetic for the game is exellent. I would probably not recommend it for people not into 40K, but for those who are, I can recommend it.

Pros: - nice gunplay - WH40K setting - graphical style - basic but decent upgrades system - it's a 10H game Cons: - nonsensical plot and dialogues - you max out your character after 6H - it's a 10H game - pointless gun modification

There's a lot of promise in the gameplay but it's kind of an undisciplined mess that crams in too many mechanics without using them to create depth or variety or challenge. The worst offender is the haphazard mash-up of DOOM's glory kills with Bloodborne's Rally system. The Rally regen system is pointless when every enemy is spamming bright, fast projectiles from all directions so you're constantly taking damage, and glory kills are pointless because you don't have to get the enemies' health low before doing it (and you generally get more health from just shooting). So it doesn't add a tactical layer of HP management to combat, you just occasionally press the execute button when an enemy wanders in front of you. My experience of the game was just running around mindlessly spraying through an indistinct haze of particle effects, completing ignoring my health as it went up and down like a yo-yo. There's the same issue with movement that combines DOOM Eternal's double jump and air dash with Titanfall's wall run and a hook shot. But the levels aren't decided to make anything of them so they end up contributing little. They've done a good job of bringing a variety of 40k weapons to life, but they don't feel very different: they just spray different sized bullets at different rates. And the more interesting and more iconic weapons (like bolters and plasma guns) are generally worse than the fast-firing weapons because the health regen system encourages you to hose enemies. Having said all that, this is the only decent 40k FPS out there (so far) so it may be worth checking out. But only play for as long as you're having fun. The levels, the combat encounters, the mechanics, the story - none of it gets more interesting later on.

Gameplay: Not quite polished Graphics: Pretty nice. Acting: B-tier. Story: There is one, barely. Music: Punchy and good. This is another painfully average shooter in the spirit of Doom (2016), and it is just that; average. That said the issues this game has come from budget, not design. Once again Streum lets out a game tinged with brilliance behind layers of grit and smudge that a bigger budget could have made rise to the front. As it stands I'd give it a charitable 4\5 but that is indeed charitable. You can do a lot worse than this game in terms of entertainment, but you can also do a lot better. On the plus side compared to Spacewing Deathwing this has great music, so presumably the next one will have improved another aspect? We can but hope.

It may not be a masterpiece, but it's easily one of the best 40k games to date. Iron out the kinks and add more stuff in the future and we might be looking at the best.