Warhammer 40,000: Fire Warrior

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.

Incredible

It's quiet.

always love a game that breaks itself and makes it literally unplayable if you try to fix it. might be a good game but now that it doesn't even launch even though I did everything that was explained by others to do. what a joke.

Game is closing at the start of second level. What else is there to say. :(