2 people found this review helpful
Recommended
10.8 hrs last two weeks / 208.0 hrs on record (28.2 hrs at review time)
Posted: 14 Jan, 2021 @ 7:33pm

A superb game about knocking flying gun-bricks the size of freeways together.
The campaigns are tough especially in the start but really fun once you get the hang of it, and get a few ranks of renown. Make sure to save often! Its a light 4x style of game in the campaign kind of like Star Wars: Empire at War just with no ground battles and there's an urgency meter that builds up and makes the campaign harder as time goes on so you can't just sit back and turtle, but gets reset every time you complete a mission (including side missions). It can be a little stressful but its an appropriate mechanic for a scenario where the stakes are high.
While there are only campaigns for The Combined Imperium (Imperial Navy, Mechanicus Fleet & Adaptus Astartes all at once), Necrons, Tyranids & Chaos (with the DLC) they're quite large campaigns with a lot of nice lore detail and lots of missions.
While it would be nice to have an Ynnari campaign with combined Craftworld/Corsair/Druchari fleets and an Ork campaign to round out the active factions in the setting (No Tau in the Eye of Terror I'm afraid) what's already in the game is a heap of content and the Aeldari ships are honestly pretty hard to use, very fragile and micro intensive. Orks would be easy though. There doesn't seem like there will be any more DLC campaigns at this point so oh well, just Chaos.

Opinions on the story and writing is mixed but I think its good as far as 40K Video Game story telling goes, the cinematics are very pretty and the majority of the voice acting is top-notch and carries even some of the worse dialogue.

I have no opinions on the multiplayer, I played a couple of matches and it seems okay, I'm not really a PvP person.

End of the day I think the game is well worth it just for the campaigns, especially if you get it on sale (I did and it was a downright steal getting this game 75% off).
Quick buyer beware though: If you have trouble with "Easy Anti-Cheat" avoid this game I'm afraid, it uses it and the launch commands on steam to disable it don't always work.
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