IT'S QUIET IT'S QUIET NO ACTIVITY
Take the most bland FPS from the late 90s, and then wrap it in a 40K skin, and you get this.
I'm glad it wasn't space marine/imperium focused, the idea of going with the Tau is a good idea, as they are the closest 40K has to 'good guys'. And honestly i think they should give this another go.
But other than that, i don't have too much good to say. 40K is a grim dark world, but it doesn't have to be boring visually. Here it very much is. The first two levels are long dull stretches of brown trench with the same square metal window things every two metres, following this is a series of metallic corridors, and really quite lame looking imperial propaganda posters.
Gameplay is where it flounders worst. Exploding barrels all over the place, first enemy in the game takes too long to kill, despite being a Tau game, the Tau guns themselves are useless, and you end up finding out the imperial guns are much better, despite much of 40K's internal setting telling you otherwise.
The game doesn't really provide much in the way of intuitive hints or help. Early on you face a twin jet plane thing, and you're just told to 'make the landing zone safe' essentially. So i empty all my piddly tau guns into the thing, and then all my inexplicably better shitty imperial lasguns and bullet-based weapons into it, and yet it still keeps on truckin'.
Turns out, you're supposed to shoot it's turbines, and these aren't highlighted in any sort of way ( not that i want big giant arrows or glowing effects ), and they don't give any real visual or audio clue when you hit them as if to say 'yes, shoot here please'. And even on the easiest setting, it's really quite difficult. I ended up cheesing it, hiding behind a pipe which i don't think was intended to make you un-hittable.
Overall, i can't really recommend. Even if you love 40K and want a neat gen6 Warhammer game, it's just incredibly dull and tedious.
Take the most bland FPS from the late 90s, and then wrap it in a 40K skin, and you get this.
I'm glad it wasn't space marine/imperium focused, the idea of going with the Tau is a good idea, as they are the closest 40K has to 'good guys'. And honestly i think they should give this another go.
But other than that, i don't have too much good to say. 40K is a grim dark world, but it doesn't have to be boring visually. Here it very much is. The first two levels are long dull stretches of brown trench with the same square metal window things every two metres, following this is a series of metallic corridors, and really quite lame looking imperial propaganda posters.
Gameplay is where it flounders worst. Exploding barrels all over the place, first enemy in the game takes too long to kill, despite being a Tau game, the Tau guns themselves are useless, and you end up finding out the imperial guns are much better, despite much of 40K's internal setting telling you otherwise.
The game doesn't really provide much in the way of intuitive hints or help. Early on you face a twin jet plane thing, and you're just told to 'make the landing zone safe' essentially. So i empty all my piddly tau guns into the thing, and then all my inexplicably better shitty imperial lasguns and bullet-based weapons into it, and yet it still keeps on truckin'.
Turns out, you're supposed to shoot it's turbines, and these aren't highlighted in any sort of way ( not that i want big giant arrows or glowing effects ), and they don't give any real visual or audio clue when you hit them as if to say 'yes, shoot here please'. And even on the easiest setting, it's really quite difficult. I ended up cheesing it, hiding behind a pipe which i don't think was intended to make you un-hittable.
Overall, i can't really recommend. Even if you love 40K and want a neat gen6 Warhammer game, it's just incredibly dull and tedious.