I was dubious, but took the plunge and do not regret it. General: Very few games have drawn me in and given me such levels of choice. This game kept me playing for hours without even considering doing anything else. Worth the money. Graphics: This game is of the same quality as Pillars of Eternity, or Tides of Numeria in graphical terms. No excessive ray-tracing or unneeded frivolities concerning SSAO or anything of that nature. It runs extremely well on my mini-pc at full resolution and 4x AA etc. No problems at all. Sound: Voice acting is used sparingly, but is of superb quality and always interesting to hear. Congrats to the atmospheric sound choices and often overlooked combat sounds. No complaints at all. Story: The character creation, and introductory background choices is extremely good. You are offered a series of events to participate in that shape your experience in game. The choices are text-based decisions and the results of your options are shown, impacting your faction relations and sculpting your history before play. You can choose quick-play to skip this, but I was very entertained and interested in choosing my own brand of character, which wasn't forced into the narrow band of Good vs Evil. Instead, your decisions are related to real-life situations which I was delighted with. You are a somewhat blank slate and this was very well crafted. I shan't say more to avoid ruining the story itself. Gameplay: Top-down, RPG with space-bar pause mechanic. Spell creation through selecting runes which you gather throughout the game, posessing both melee spells, ranged and arc of effect etc. Combat is tried and true with a tutorial that doesn't treat you like a child and is simply a series of situation-appropriate text boxes you can skip if so desired. Misc: I was running this in linux using wine and had 0 issues which is always nice to see. Hope to see more games like this.
Given the scrutiny automatically garnered from possessing the stigma of 'A 40K game' and it's subsequent expectations, this delivers well. Voice acting, game-play, story; all elements are acceptable justifications to run around and shoot things with a Warhammer theme. While this is not a technical landmark, nor anything particularly innovative, it is a very good game in and of itself. I have encountered no bugs, nor performance problems beyond what I would expect of my hardware. If I were pressed to make a comparison, I would say it is what you would get if you blended 40k with Ghostrunner. Lots of wallrunning, climbing, jumping and gunning. Generally, I'd say if you come to it without expectations, you'll be pleasently surprised with how solid of a game this is. It checks all the boxes a modern FPS is required to check, right down to the melee-kill-animations and slide-dodging. Certainly, it's worth the sale price, but likely not the full price. So, if it's on sale and you meet the minimum specs you are likely in for a fun, shooty time.
