Warhammer 40,000: Fire Warrior

I could get used to the controls, but the game is terribly outdated even for it's time. The enemies are just teleporting right into your face and you always stuck at something. I played through because of the Warhammer theme but it is not worth more than 1 playthrough. Buy this at sale only or don't buy it at all. You will not miss out anything.

The GOG version of this game has never started.

great! A solid ps2 era shooter and a fascinating look at what its like to fight the imperium from the outside for once.

This game sparked my love of Warhammer 40k, so it will always hold a special place in my heart

tl; dr: It's very derivatve of Halo, but dodgy controls and terrible sound design drag it down and there's not much aside from the 40K setting that would cause me to recommend it. So, to start, I can't really run the game. Clicking "play" in the Gog launcher just throws an error message. The EXE runs on it's own without the launcher, but I can't run the config utility either, so it's possible that your mileage may vary. As someone who really likes 40K, Fire Warrior always had a kind of mythical status to me, since it was the only 40K FPS for a long time, and you couldn't buy it anywhere. So, I was super excited to see it on Gog. Unfortunately, most of the game is just decent, not really "good," and doesn't even reach that level in some aspects. For example, the sound design is terrible. Everything that's not a solid tone has been bitcrushed to a massive degree so that the whole game sounds muffled. There's no music, either, and volume mixing is awful when characters are talking. The other major problem is that this game has the floaty controls of an early console port. It's one of the only FPS I would ever suggest to play with autoaim on, because moving the mouse is so weird feeling. It's aggrivated by the fact that the weapons in this game are inaccurate as heck. This is not really a huge problem at the beginning of the game, since your weapons are mostly machine guns or shotguns where accuracy is not a major issue, but later on, when you get slow firing weapons like bolters, and are fighting enemies with massive health totals, it gets really frustrating. Aiming at center of mass at an enemy maybe ten feet away, pulling the trigger, and watching the shot whiff half the time is not fun, and the end game is basically that experience for three or four hours. So many fights ended up just feeling like dice rolls because of this. So, yeah. Not terrible, but not great, and enough "not fun" problems that I can't really recommend it.