This game is beyond any indie 40k game I've experienke. By the will of the machine god, the Omnissiah who knows all tekhnology these new mechanics are truly sacred.
Instead of accuracy there is range and line of sight. Instead of cover you have Skitarri, lobotomized human machine hybrids to serve as fodder for your valuable tech priests. There are many more things here but my machine spirit warns me I must go shortly lest me = 0.
The environment looks, the sound and voices divine. The music however is beyond even the Omnissiah Itself.
This humble servitor is pleasantly surprised with the program.
I was on the edge buying this on GOG because of the localisation issue (One could not change language ingame and was stuck with subpar translations of an otherwise well written story). Well, this has been fixed! Chose the language you desire from the ingame options menu.
Furthermore it runs smooth on my notebook too, which only brings an Nvidia MX 250 2 GB card to the necrons tomb (Below minimum system requirements).
- The mechanics bring a smile to every turn based strategy fan
- High replayability
- High customisation of units ...
- ... and difficulty settings (from Snotling-wuss to Emperors-iron man)
- Intriguing story
- Great music
- Interesting voiceovers
The combat is better than xcom's. Yep, you heard that right. No more RNG BS where you're right in the face of an enemy and miss your shot. Only your own troops can get around 20% dodge change but, otherwise, all attacks hit their intended target(s) for the displayed amount of damage. Armor is a factor here but the UI does a great job to show you who has how much of it provided you've scanned the enemy. The story is a bit flimsy and vague but the atmosphere is undeniably spot on Warhammer 40k. Growing and improving your cohort feels satisfying especially if you consider the fairly hard difficulty you'll be facing at the start of the game when your troops are few and unupgraded. The soundtrack is so good that you'll not only keep it on for the entire playthrough, but you might also enjoy listening to it on its own.
Played the game on Linux and it ran beautifully. :)
If you want a more concise review watch MandaloreGamings review on the game on his youtube channel.
Now its similar to XCom looking at it but if you play it, it stands on its own big time. Now one things to say is the fact that it isnt that hard, the early game is the hard part, in fact it gives a lot of things to the player. However the game allows you to do so much with cognition point system its crazy. My big gripe I have with it is simply some things are too broken.
This game gives me a Final Fantasy Tactics feel to me where you can customize your Tech Priests so much to your wim it makes you think about how do you want to make em to be. Now theres no job system you simply pick a level tree and levels are permanent so watch out.
Basically it works like FTL except you dont get chased. You are trying to level your tech priests as much as you can before the final boss.
But if you find the base game too easy you can adjust the difficulty, and its not just Easy, Normal, Hard, you can actually adjust what the game is like. For example you can turn on permadeath, you can turn on a option where it tells you what to push if you hate guessing. You can adjust your own or your enemies HP. You can make it if you can a revenue of blackstone (You need them to level priests) etc.
Admittedly I havent beaten the game yet but I feel satisfied just playing it.
A good WH40K game. If you're interested in turn-based combat with great atmosphere this is worth playing. There are enough enemies to keep things interesting, the battles are tactical and the progression of your characters is good. I was quite happy to see the strategy was not overlooked in terms of the possible weapons you can use and the overall " skill tree " of your characters. The music and sound design is quite impressive, the weapons and enemies sound amazing, and the soundtrack is godly. The art direction of the game overall is what makes this game as great at it is. Definitely would recommend.
