Judgement: Not Recommended
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Lets start with a positives for now - this is a shooter with nice gun play, with decent design, alright graphics and sometimes with good atmosphere of WH40K universe.
Why review is negative then? Because besides on every positive side of this game there is at least a couple of negative ones.
Plot is very poor, people who don't read anything about Necromunda universe will understand nothing about it during course of the game. How hard to build encyclopedia into such lor-heavy game? Game plot shows some sort of twist at the end but i didn't really care because there is no good storytelling here.
Design and graphics are fine, but its butchered by freaking ugly depth of the field effect. Also every time game shows you a cutscene it looks absolutely abysmal, like 90s talking heads abysmal. Animation is woeful.
Gun play is good, but game got no scale of difficulty, once you master few perks and get one decent enough gun you practically indestructible. And you can spam grapnel hook and melee attack which one kills most of the enemies.
Side missions there are terrible, i did them to obtain all of the abilities in upgrade menu and they just so poorly done. Its basically copypaste killing stupid enemies on levels from campaign. You can see that each side mission change relation to you from different faction but its absolutely useless feature that got no practical meaning.
And i also need to mention technical problems, game optimization is not the best and there is still bugs. During my 18 hours of playthrough my game shut down to Unreal engine crash report 5 times. Also upon entering upgrade menu game freezes with only solution of Alt+F4 and try again.
Overall, this is game that has more disappointing qualities than good ones. I doubt that i will remember any mission of campaign, because there is no interesting bosses or different tasks here. Pick it on good sale if you have too. I won it on steamgifts personally (thanks to generous gifter again) and had my fun with it, but its not something that will be replayed or reminisced.
Why review is negative then? Because besides on every positive side of this game there is at least a couple of negative ones.
Plot is very poor, people who don't read anything about Necromunda universe will understand nothing about it during course of the game. How hard to build encyclopedia into such lor-heavy game? Game plot shows some sort of twist at the end but i didn't really care because there is no good storytelling here.
Design and graphics are fine, but its butchered by freaking ugly depth of the field effect. Also every time game shows you a cutscene it looks absolutely abysmal, like 90s talking heads abysmal. Animation is woeful.
Gun play is good, but game got no scale of difficulty, once you master few perks and get one decent enough gun you practically indestructible. And you can spam grapnel hook and melee attack which one kills most of the enemies.
Side missions there are terrible, i did them to obtain all of the abilities in upgrade menu and they just so poorly done. Its basically copypaste killing stupid enemies on levels from campaign. You can see that each side mission change relation to you from different faction but its absolutely useless feature that got no practical meaning.
And i also need to mention technical problems, game optimization is not the best and there is still bugs. During my 18 hours of playthrough my game shut down to Unreal engine crash report 5 times. Also upon entering upgrade menu game freezes with only solution of Alt+F4 and try again.
Overall, this is game that has more disappointing qualities than good ones. I doubt that i will remember any mission of campaign, because there is no interesting bosses or different tasks here. Pick it on good sale if you have too. I won it on steamgifts personally (thanks to generous gifter again) and had my fun with it, but its not something that will be replayed or reminisced.
Review posted on 21/12/2022, 09:56:00.