Necromunda: Hired Gun

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3.7

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Posted on: August 12, 2023

Draugusto

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Games: 484 Reviews: 208

Doom eternal meets WH40k...sort of

First pérson shooter with franctic combat and fas paced mocvement, set in the WH40k universe, what's there not to love? Well, unfortunately many things, the game is not bad, but is full of weird design decisions that drag it down. - Enemies blend in with the dark enviroment, you will see them when they have already replaced your bones with lead, this is aggravated by the fact that enemies will spawn out of thin air, so you will get ambushed often (really, the world is filled with pipes, vents, hatches and doors, but enemies just pop into existence). There's an option to outline enemies but oonly works when they are far away,, aka when they can't hit you anyways - 90% of the enemies use hitscan weapons, so no matter how fast you move you will get hit - apart from the limited health kits the other way to heal is to take damage and then kill enemies , which defeats purpose of trying to not get hit - Weapon balance is too balanced, a Bolter does a little more damage than a regular rifle, but has slower fire rate and a smaller magazine, so it balances out, and worst of it all, the heavy bolter does barely more damage than the bolter, but is even slower so it balances itseld (in short your entry level rifle is the best weapon because more bullets mean more chances of critical hits) this is terrible and probably heretical if you ask any WH40k fan. - There's no inventory/stats screen readily available. - The faction system is pointless and side missions are only useful for a while, until you buy all your bionic upgrades. At the end the game is heavily carried by the visuals, the music the sound design, and your dog. And even though it was fruistrating most of the time, there were a few times I was having fung jumping and grappling all over the place,, finishing off enemies to keep myself barely alive. My recommendation, pick it up on discount, because this cake is undercooked and is made with some weird ingredients (and to think it was even worse at launch)

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Posted on: November 8, 2024

gserra

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Games: 140 Reviews: 18

Decent FPS

It has been fun to play. The combat is satisfactory and the sounds are great. However, I think this game lacks in some areas. For instance, the graphics are very "dirty" and confusing. Most of the time, I can't see the type of enemy because they are just a smudge on the screen. Other games like Deus Ex have sharper sprites. I understand this might be a design decision. Until now, it seems that customization doesn't matter a lot. I love the level design, really immersive, but I don't like the takedown animations, they are a bit clunky. Overall it is an OK game. I don't regret buying it, but I will probably forget it once/if I finish. Finally, I can't understand anything from the plot, but I guess that is ok for the game genre.

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Posted on: April 29, 2025

xxshug

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Games: 332 Reviews: 2

Mixed... but kinda Fun. Get it on Sale.

Like every Warhammer or 40K game, it's kinda good, and kinda meh. I got the game for $6.61 on an email subscriber discount, so I can't complain. But I will! I don't think they had time to properly balance the enemies at max difficulty. On the second to hardest difficulty, everything is easy as hell. On the hardest difficulty, it's easy as hell too -- until it's not. If you try to play up close and personal, like the game wants you to, you will be annihilated, especially on some of the boss fights. Some boss fights are hilariously fast. This is with a maxed out character and some 5K hours in Quake Live / Quake 3. The grappling hook is lame. Mostly only works on fixed ledges, there's no inertia or control like the Titanfall 2 grapple. You honestly had better control with the UT 99 grapple. This is really minor, but for me it's an irritation. 1999 was over 20 years ago, yet we can't figure out grappling hooks in FPS. The game doesn't know what it wants to do. The game doesn't know what it wants YOU to do. The game wants you to play like Doom Eternal, yet design choices punish you for it. There's a large progression system. You don't need it. There's a faction system, with 25 factions. They're virtually useless. You have 7 powers, eventually. You don't need them. You have a dog. You don't need him (his CC and spotting are real handy though). You can hold 6 guns. There's no pocket reloading. During long or intense fights, if you swap on empty, you will eventually have 6 empty guns. You have to pull out and reload each one individually. This brings the action to a screeching halt, the Benny Hill theme starts to play, and you run around reloading guns like a buffoon. Somewhat like Ultrakill, the game has a proximity heal system. When you get hit, if you damage enemies close to you, you get some healing. It doesn't seem to work all that great, and if you're low, you can't heal this way unless someone shoots you first, which likely will kill you.

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Posted on: April 5, 2023

idbeholdME

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Games: 734 Reviews: 69

Great shooting, but everything else....

Positive: - Shooting itself feels great. Weapons have impact, sound and look great, and enemies actually die when you shoot them, which is already a massive step up from the often mentioned nu-Dooms. Great fun shooting suff in this game. You can also bring up to 6 weapons with you, compared to the usual 4. - The amount of movement you can achieve here is pretty nuts. Double jumping, slides, wall running, you name it. And you're going to need it, because the enemies are fast and can be quite deadly. - World and level design feel decidedly 40K-ish. Negative: - Truly atrocious UI, obviously made for consoles. Menus within menus, constant pointless clicking to do the simplest thing, transition screens... BLEH. You will probably soon find yourself dreading having to do any inventory management. A UI this bad on a PC should be criminal. - The loot. Honestly feels pointlessly tacked on and the game would have been better off without it. All it does is make you spend more time in the hell that is the UI. Did you just find an upgrade? Time to spend 3 minutes tediously swapping the weapons and moving attachments to the new weapon so that you can deal 5% more damage. Weapons should have just been pre-set, would have made no difference but reduce the tedium. And would also prevent situations where you have OP weapons compared to enemies you are facing. You can also find armors, charms, weapon upgrades, but it's all extremely superficial. - Side missions. They get boring after an hour, but you have to grind them at least some amount, because you need the credits from them for upgrades. They have you run through campaign levels you already beat and the enemies in them spawn constantly, so it just devolves to speedrunning the objectives while ignoring enemies. Essentially, the core of the game is great, but there is just too much unnecessary bloat that detracts from the experience. Even through all that, I'm still giving this an 8/10. Better shooting than the new Dooms

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Posted on: March 30, 2025

Darkjedidisciple

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Games: 42 Reviews: 4

Frustrating Game

Crazy difficult and too fast paced for an old person like me. Does have very good old Doom style map designs. But enemies are hard to hit bacause of rather small hit boxes. And they are just normal humanoids, so no horror or cool factor in the game for my taste :( Necro has the annoying screen shake effects, when ones char gets hit. Making it too difficult to see anything and hit them back. Which ruins shooter game for me as always. The game has the most annoying sound loop of shouting characters, I’ve ever heard. It’s driving me nuts :(

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