Space Hulk: Deathwing

“The Space Hulk: Deathwing tries to combine slow, tactical squad-based shooting with the gameplay of a horde FPS but it fails to make either side work.”

“First and foremost, the gameplay is clunky and unresponsive, making it extremely frustrating to navigate the dark and cramped corridors of the hulking spacecraft.”

“Absolutely amazing environments and atmosphere mired by slow, tedious, repetitive, frustrating gameplay and the lack of any depth.”

“The optimization makes even Vermintide look like golden coding optimization from the gods when compared to Deathwing.”

“I spent a lot of time tuning down every setting one by one and figured that in the end it hardly helps at all; it just makes the game look visually worse but grants no FPS boost in busier scenes. On top of the frame rate problems, there's also a lot of stuttering, hitching, and even full-on hard freezes lasting up to 10 seconds, during which you better have a friend around in co-op protecting you.”

“Performance was horrible (especially when a horde shows up), the multiplayer barely worked, the game had terrible load times, and was just frustrating to play.”

“The graphics are not optimized in the slightest - worst graphics settings of all my games and still laggy - in comparison Skyrim runs smoothly in full blast mode, so it ain't the platform.”

“Plus the fps always drops faster than you can say "for the emperor" whenever there's a horde of enemies within range to attack you, regardless of what your graphics and video settings are set at.”

“Space Hulk Deathwing was a game that I thought could have a lot of potential, but if only the creators had the time to go with performance over the graphics quality of this game; I have had trouble playing this game and the only thing I was able to play was the tutorial, and once I got into the campaign, my framerates and everything just dropped as hard as Fat Man and Little Boy on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.”

“Sadly for me the negatives have outweighed the beauty and atmosphere that is so steeped in the lore of the franchise.”

“Unfortunately found not up-to-date looking graphics, clunky controls, zero atmosphere - and that your character cannot climb ladders or over any obstacle.”

“The appropriate soundtrack in this game is almost non existent (there's only ambient sounds which you barely can hear and that's about it), which makes exploration really boring and honestly... the lack of soundtrack is really hurting the atmosphere of this game and the combat a lot.”

“The glitches are horrific. I'll be having the smallest inkling of fun, then boom, I am killed instantly. With a game that basically has no checkpoints, this caused me to wake my roommate by screaming. I'd consider it a cash grab attempt, but I see the effort of the studio with the detail to lore, graphics, and atmosphere. They really know what Warhammer is.”

“This game is unfinished, buggy, feature lacking, and ultimately a disappointment.”

“The gameplay is buggy and broken, with memory leaks that slow the game down to a jerky mess after an hour or two of constant play, forcing a restart of the game.”

“There is no replay value from what I've seen: some powers were actually removed from co-op multiplayer, nothing to unlock, collectibles literally do nothing, it's still buggy as hell, and very unoptimized for most systems.”

“Multiplayer has zero replayability, there is no progress and barely anything to achieve.”

“Without a new game+, there isn't much replayability, and all of the collectibles and gear you amass throughout the campaign disappear when you start over, which means if you want to find every collectible, you can't even miss one single relic or else you'll have to start over.”

“Also add a soundtrack; the game feels empty even when I'm covered in Tyranids clawing, nashing, and biting. It just feels like I'm grinding for no reason instead of feeling like a terminator exterminating the enemy.”

“The appropriate soundtrack in this game is almost non-existent (there are only ambient sounds which you can barely hear), which makes exploration really boring and honestly... the lack of soundtrack is really hurting the atmosphere of this game and the combat a lot.”

“The interface is junk (it's like something ripped off a 1990's video game), there was no music (although I suspect this was a bug), all the melee combat has the exact same generic swooshing sound, nothing sets this game apart from every other generic point and click shooter game.”

“The gameplay falls short after the initial "wow, I'm a terminator!" feeling - it's repetitive at best, tedious at worst.”

“But if you have to rely on the AI allies, you're in for a long, tedious slog through the mud with this game using weapons that feel too soft against enemies that feel too tanky - and this is coming from a 40k player of some twenty years, playing both the Tyranid and Space Marine sides.”

“You start every chapter back at level 1, grinding everything anew; however, you can opt for codex rules which unlock everything but you are locked into that role/equipment choice and are unable to change anything mid-game.”

“Unless they start talking to the community soon or releasing the new patch, this game was a simple cash grab using the Warhammer name to make money.”

“Sadly, this game is just another cash grab with the developers probably being rushed to finish the game and being forced to release this pathetic excuse for a "game" far earlier than it was supposed to be.”

“The game also seems to be very short-lived and I foresee many cash-grabbing DLCs from the developers to add features that should be in the game in the first place.”

“The multiplayer is enjoyable, though lacking one key aspect: no character development or gear gain opportunity.”

“To be honest, I put this down to GW's rigid dumbing down of their tabletop systems and this game's close following of that source material, more than being a poor design by the game's devs. No proper character development here.”

“Considering they touted this as being written with Gav Thorpe, a rather accomplished 40k novelist, there is a shocking lack of any sort of character development.”