Necromunda: Hired Gun

Pros: 1) It's fun and I can dial it down so I'm not totally sucking at it. 2) It has a LOT of progression so you can choose your build and work towards it. 3) It has a decent amount of weapons that you can customize for affect AND look. 4) It has ENDLESS side missions so you can save up for the upgrade/weapon you want. 5) It's got enough stress that I get mad when I get killed, but not so much I rage quit LOL. 6) Not afraid to show big breasted females (no faces, but...) in skimpy outfits as bkgrnd NPCs. 7) Voice acting is GREAT. Who knew warhammer universe was in Australia? LOL 8) Graphics/visuals/backgrounds characters etc, very nice and you can adjust lots of settings. 9) VERY immersive, you feel like you're on a hive planet. I play it everyday. 10) You can pet the dog. 11) Even if you fail the side missions, you'll still get some loot/money so you can progress! Cons: 1) Even at easy it's hard for me on the side missions but see 11) above. Most fun I've had in a long time. I'm an older gamer, I remember buying pong and attaction it to my TV. This game is still a lot of fun for me, not as fast twitch as I use to be, notwithstanding. tl;dr: Buy it, it's fun.

Yes, many mechanics in this game are as simple as they would have been in an earlier era of FPS. I'm fine with this as an older gamer and really find those mechanics refreshing within such a great looking universe. I'm not getting the hate on this one. The graphics options are very thorough and DLSS really helps fine tuning things. I thought this game was a huge step up from Deathwing and plays a bit like a combination of the recent Doom games and Metroid Prime of all things. I recommend this game to fans of the Turok franchise who don't need everything to be super innovative gameplaywise. This is one of the very few "next gen" looking games to me on my rig. Thanks devs. Sorry for goofballs.

Very good AA shooter. Solid mechanics, great movement. Would have liked more enemy variety, and better mission design. A great foundation for a sequel...

It's a solid basegame that can't fully realize both it's gameplay promise or 40k setting potential. The story is barebones and the insight into the Necromunda setting and characters is very limited. It suffers from janky animations and a serious lack of content and enemy variety. The environments are pretty great, but the hub is kinda lame. The user interface is kinda infuriating at times. It needs some polish as well as more content. But if you're looking for a decent shooter in the 40k universe, this is probably your best choice.

Hired gun so desperatley wants to be Doom Eternal that it forgets the fundementals of what makes movement shooters fun, following a 'yes and' style of design which cripples the game desperatley. Plenty about the game is 'cool' with some decent ideas cooking about but pulled out of the oven way too early. Weapon customization is nice, but the upgrade system is unecessary, mimicing that of Vermintide and Space Hulk. My primary problem with this is that Hired Gun is not a co-op game so the inclusion of a grindy upgrade system seems like an after thought meant only to improve play-time metrics. I would much rather do the B to S tier missions in order to unlock cosmetics and weapon attachments versus "oh boy more items that are useless to me". Regardless, Necromunda manages to have fantastic visuals in the fast paced shooter but really bungs itself down with the jankiness of movement, poor level design, and mediocre gunplay with the illusion of depth. There are a couple things that can be fixed with a definitive edition, but level design and gunplay are not really one of them. Those areas of the game desperatley need an overhaul and could have been fixed with some more development time. Necromunda: Hired Gun could have been an amazing game but it isn't a terrible one, bogging down itself by being a poor DOOM: ETERNAL clone.