In terms of aesthetics and visuals this game passes with flying colors. But when we get into the main part, which is the shooting, we realize the obvious flaw. The delay between shots is frustrating. Our character's movement and the AI's reaction are quite fast, so they end up being completely out of sync with each other. Too bad, I really wanted to enjoy this game.
First I'd like to say that it was horrible to optimize this for modern PCs, but I can't explain it exactly, it ended up working pretty well and I finished Shogo. Honestly it doesn't matter, the game even after 20 long years is still great. I felt like I was playing a Duke Nukem mecha anime. Big F# Guns, Explosions, Giant Robots... Seriously, everything I like most about an FPS at once, i couldn't ask for more. It's kinda hard to believe those were the same guys who brought us that awful Blood 2. I wish i played this sooner. A great piece of work, and I missed it all these years.
First I would like to make it clear that I know absolutely nothing about the lore of Warhammer 40k, so if you are purely a fan of the franchise you might even like the game. What I'm going to talk about from now on is purely from the point of view of an average oldschool fps fan. For starters the weapons were bad. Can you imagine a FPS game where even a Minigun is a bad weapon? Not even Doom 3 has achieved this feat. The responsiveness of the commands was absolutely AWFUL, i wasn't able to fix the mouse acceleration as there's no fix for it, and because of that i was forced to activate Aim Assistance. OMG... I felt like I was playing a really bad emulator. The level design was linear all along, even though it had the traditional system of colored keys to advance the map like other classic FPS, it had no exploration and no secrets. The plot was equally terrible, as a non-Warhammer fan i just couldn't understand any of what was going on until the last part of the campaign. And when I finally understood something, I realized that it was simply a bad plot. The shooting part didn't help at all either, it was crude and unimpressive until the end of the game.
