With so many foes, and most of them being melee attackers, your screen very soon becomes covered in nothing but blood, visual effects, and bodies. Other games – like Vermintide, Left 4 Dead or Killing Floor 2 – feature similar levels of action but still manage to very clearly let players perceive their actions and the resulting effects. It all sounds fine in theory, but when all hell breaks loose, the game just becomes a chaotic mess. The three skill trees can be used to improve abilities and unlock new ones. You’ll usually be carrying a traditional rifle for ranged damage, a melee weapon, and also have access to a psychic attack on a timed cooldown, such as shooting a bolt of lightning across the battlefield. You can customize your loadout via unlockable gear for each class. Players have access to one of five combat classes, each with their own stats and weapon sets, ranging from the typical melee-focused fighters to heavy weapons damage dealers. Hordes of Tyranid creatures soon begin flooding whatever area you’re in, and your squad must fight to the bitter end to fend off the threat. So once the action picks up, you’d hope that so would the fun factor, but that’s not the case. In a bit of clever design, you can shoot some pipes and light incoming enemy hoards on fire. You can interact with the occasional door or break a wall, but that's about it. Aside from a few collectibles, there's nothing else to do in the levels besides head towards your objectives.
It can feel rather claustrophobic and also boring, to trek down these corridors for a while with nothing to do. Take a wrong turn, and you could end up in another dead end, and have to walk all the way around again to reach your destination. That’s a good thing, because at times it feels like you walk for a while (the ability to run is limited) with nothing happening, and nothing to interact with. Though it’s certainly not the most impressive game visually – even on highest settings, textures and effects are lackluster, and the menus are extremely basic – the game still manages to create an oppressing atmosphere.
The attention to detail in the environments is commendable, and the Gothic style architecture of the space ships you visit can feel daunting. While things are quiet, the game does manage to be a bit immersive. Thus, despite having a variety of intersecting areas and seemingly large levels, you’ll mostly be travelling along a linear path. A map always shows your location and the entire area without a need to explore, so you can see exactly where you need to go. Since you and your brothers are hulking warriors, they are unable to crouch or jump, so your only option is to take the long way around. The corridors feature many dead ends, be it via debris or malfunctioning doors.
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Players will be exploring the internal compartments of the space hulk via a series of corridors, which are often broken up by larger rooms. It’s definitely not possible to make sense of all aspects of the story without doing some external reading to get some basic understanding of the universe and the terminology. You’re simply thrown into the game and presumed to know what the various names, factions, and lore references mean. Fans of the Warhammer 40,000 universe will enjoy this much more than those unfamiliar with the setting, as mentioned, since the game makes little attempt to inject any basics into the dialog or tooltips. The story that follows is relatively basic, as you navigate through a series of environments and ships, exploring the depths of the space hulk and what happened on-board.
Hulks often exit and re-enter the Warp seemingly at random, so when one appears, you are quickly dispatched by the Imperium of Man faction to investigate it, and dispatch of any foes onboard. The game follows your squad’s deployment onto a space hulk – which is a term that refers to the wreckage of a starship(s) found drifting through the vacuum. You and your brothers are clad in special Terminator armor and utilize heavy weapons, to ensure maximum devastation. These are super elite soldiers with a sole purpose is to eliminate whatever threatens their existence and way of life. Players assume the role of a Librarian squad leader from the Deathwing of the Dark Angels Chapter of Space Marines.
If you’re deeply familiar with the lore of Warhammer, you are probably going to enjoy the game a lot more than newcomers.
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