Recent reviews by Liam

Honestly one of my better RPG experiences in recent years. Is it an expansive open world romp? No. But it doesn't sell itself as such. It's a well told story with well written tight dialogue and some RPG elements from combat builds to relationship development. I believe its more contained plot and story elements gave developers more control in directing the player experience; which shows in spades in the jokes I actually laughed at and the characterizations and character development I actually cared about. If there is to be a sequel, It'll be a day-1 buy for me. I thoroughly enjoyed my time with this one.

Heretics aren't going to cleanse themselves.

Sometimes after a hard day at work, you just wanna spread the good word, ya know? Join a squad of 4 and dispense righteous justice one .75 caliber round at a time.

Love the art design. Big expansive backdrops and gloomy lighting set the mood. The music is fitting and picks up when the hoards of faithless come running. The guns feel appropriately powerful. Big guns sound and feel big. The character design is also fitting. You're an Imperial underling. Scum of the galaxy churned into instruments of the Emperor's will. You're not a pretty Abercrombie and Fitch model. In the 40k universe, pretty people don't stay pretty for long. Characters are scarred and weathered; the militarized janitorial staff that you are. Some don't like this. I think it's fitting. We're grunts in a war machine. Don't get me wrong though. The texture work and design of the characters is gorgeous. They're just not pretty people. If you're aim is to fulfill a fantasy of an attractive protagonist, this may not be your jam. Character creation only churns out character actors.

My only complaint at the moment is that, for whatever reason, the devs decided that voice comms should be disabled by default. You have to go into settings and enable push to talk or voice activation. This has lead to most new players not knowing how to talk and an overall hindrance to cooperative communication in a cooperative game.

I've had trouble putting this one down for very long. I think it scratches the same itch the newer Doom releases have.

Hired Gun has some rough edges, but it brings some punch to it's arcade-y shooter roots. I've enjoyed the run and gun in spite of the "meh" enemy AI people seem to be having a seizure over. I've enjoyed finding and upgrading different weapons. It's also cool seeing more non-rts 40k content.

I lost interest in the story about half way through, but the big loud guns and shiny 'splosions made up for it. /shrug

Buy on sale.

Pretty good/spooky Stephen King style horror game. Worth the pickup while it's on sale IMO. Tuck it away for next Halloween to play at night . . in the dark . . alone . . .