(mini-review.)

I love Warhammer 40K. I am intimately acquainted with the Dark Angels and the Deathwing. I bought the game, hoping to find a deep, expansively fun shooter. Instead, the game is just a chore. The plot is paper-thin and predictable. In fact, it is far weaker than the plot in Warhammer 40K: Deathwatch, which got bashed for its storyline. The game vacillates between looking absolutely gorgeous, with massive, well-rendered environments/amazingly detailed terminator armor sets and laughably poor tactical dreadnaught animations (omg, those legs). All of this could be forgiveable if the game was fun and had replayability but it's not. The game is rote and repetitive, with you fighting overpowered waves of tyranids as you proceed through various areas of a space hulk. That, in itself can be overlooked as well, except that the classes and weapons are far from balanced. Weapons lack punch. Melee isn't satisfying. And powers/progression make little sizeable difference. Progression is brutally slow requring a mind-numbing amount of replay of the same missions in order to make small changes to your marine.

For a game that normally costs 30-40 dollars, Deathwing is simply a bad value. I finished the campaign in 8 hours with minimal reason to keep playing. And the lobbies are ghost towns as they are. While the game runs reasonably well and looks reasonably good, the design of the game is flawed at the core and that makes all the difference.

Not worth the time. You'll find better games elsewhere.

6/10.

(mini-review.) I love Warhammer 40K. I am intimately acquainted with the Dark Angels and the Deathwing. I bought the game, hoping to find a deep, expansively fun shooter. Instead, the game is just a chore. The plot is paper-thin and predictable. In fact, it is far weaker than the plot in Warhammer 40K: Deathwatch, which got bashed for its storyline. The game vacillates between looking absolutely gorgeous, with massive, well-rendered environments/amazingly detailed terminator armor sets and laughably poor tactical dreadnaught animations (omg, those legs). All of this could be forgiveable if the game was fun and had replayability but it's not. The game is rote and repetitive, with you fighting overpowered waves of tyranids as you proceed through various areas of a space hulk. That, in itself can be overlooked as well, except that the classes and weapons are far from balanced. Weapons lack punch. Melee isn't satisfying. And powers/progression make little sizeable difference. Progression is brutally slow requring a mind-numbing amount of replay of the same missions in order to make small changes to your marine. For a game that normally costs 30-40 dollars, Deathwing is simply a bad value. I finished the campaign in 8 hours with minimal reason to keep playing. And the lobbies are ghost towns as they are. While the game runs reasonably well and looks reasonably good, the design of the game is flawed at the core and that makes all the difference. Not worth the time. You'll find better games elsewhere. 6/10.