The GOG version is not only not DRM free, there are also no achivements. It is bugged. Game itself is poorly programmed (to the point of grammatical errors) and is a DLC hell. A copy of extra aspects of SOTS 2 on Klauschewitz engine.
The game is empty, poorly optimised (even for basic pixelated graphics), the pilot bios and the missions are SJW heaven, the mechs are uninspired. Plays like an old CD you've found under your bed and installed just to see "what's on it". Avoid.
This is like a nicely wrapped chocolate box with cheap, stuck together sweets (judging by the smell -- second hand ones) inside of it, some with the wrapper infused into them. The design of the menus, apart from the fact that you can't skip the cutscenes (you have to click every time someone says something, or you have to press ESC, skip the whole thing, miss important info and reload the auto-save), is very... Space Hulk. Nothing special, but in line with the atmosphere. Sound design is okay (better than most other 40k games, except DoW1 and 2), voices are nicely minced, music is "limited", as in it hits the climax and then goes silent for ages. Which means that after 2nd turn you spend the rest of the fight listening to ambient noise. Graphics -- nothing special, yet it melts the PC down. The whole game isn't properly programmed, eg.:if your wiresless headphones disconnect, and you reconnect them again -- the game will still use speakers. Decade old games don't have this. Ironic, that a game about cyborg IT priests was programmed by an intern working "for free Lunch" on an iPad (at best). Tactics are non-existant: I quit when I had to spend "Cognition Points" to hit someone in melee with an axe. Either priests have brain damage or a strange disorder, where they have to read a book before attacking someone. So much for the UBERMENSCH of the far future. This isn't even the depth of the nuXcom, and if we're talking TB strategies of the old, then this is a snotling trying to fight the pre-heresy God-Emperor. There is nothing here: you can't ambush, can't overwatch, can't do antyhing but shoot and move. This is a cashgrab that is based on the license. Much like the overpriced miniatures by GW, it looks nice on the outside, but on the inside you get nothing but grey plastic. I am beginning to think the five-star reviews were made by people who think that centurion armour is a great addition, and who probably have the complete works of Matt Ward on their shelves.
One of the worst games ever. Let's start with the fact that this is an excrutiatingly bad and long unskippable cutscene with the most generic horror story you can ever imagine, which copies the shining, but in a horrible, bland and painfully mediocre way. I want to emphasie the "boring" part. This game is aggressively boring. No, no. It doesn't just bore you because it's oblivious to its horrid story. It tortures you. Let me explain: Imagine you are reading a book that has an answer hidden within its pages, but most of it is complete non-sequitur and chapters end with absoultely no rhyme or reason, the proverbial gun on wall does not fire, it just hangs there. Beating the game is total guesswork, and in the last chapter it means you have to guess from 20 different outcomes in order to progress or you die instanlty. Yes. And if you spam ESC to skip the cutscenes, the last one, will ask you if you want to continue or not, and if you press ESC by accident, you have to replay the whole game again. I mean the whole 7 hours of watching a girl stare at things for painfully long periods of time while playing with her hair, freaking out by the same thing over and over again and not leaving the house or calling the cops when she gets raped, manhandled, discovers a dead body in her garden or sees actual ghosts. No. Then you have to sit through the part where an old man, who falls asleep at every word, then wakes up midesntence and stutters the same story you have been seeing through character dialogue and clues THE WHOLE game in a 10 minute long shot of a dude in a wheelchair. This game is physically painful to play. The locations repeat, the items don't make any sense at all and the typos are just as good as the narrative of the whole thing, which doesn't follow itself (the main cillian killed 8 people, yet they say he's only killed 5). The game is unnecessarily cruel too, but not only this, the acting is so bad it makes you physically uncomfortable.
