Necromunda: Hired Gun

Necromunda works as a shooter, but the competition is fierce, and it remains several steps behind the masters of the genre.

Necromunda: Hired Gun has some jank and some odd qualities, but when tearing your way through hordes of cyborgs is this much fun, I don't really mind so much.

A game that will please every Warhammer 40K fan with its narrative and gameplay mechanics, but can be a bit shallow for everyone else. And the team still has to do plenty of optimization to make the game work well on most on the platforms where it's available.

Necromunda: Hired Gun does have redeeming qualities. The movement is great, the gunplay feels good, and the environmental design is stellar. There's simply a legion of issues on both the design and technical fronts working overtime to hold it back. If you are willing to overlook Hired Gun's many problems and massive amounts of jank you'll likely have a great time blasting gangers to bloody bits. But, I won't fault you for waiting on a sale or sequel instead.

Necromunda often oscillates between a brilliant indie gem and a frustrating mid-tier game. Some moments, it’s the best Warhammer 40,000 action game – as you mow down enemies and watch their skulls explode to its rocking tunes, and look stylish doing it as you chain grappling hook shots and double-jumps. Other times, you miss a major story beat because an important character’s audio mix was too low, or feel like you’re pixel-hunting for enemies like it’s Warzone.

Necromunda: Hired Gun is a frenetic fps without a moment of pause, but various technical problems, a forgettable story and a gunplay with too many ups and downs put some excellent ideas in the background.

Necromunda is a sight to behold, but it's undermined by wonky shooting, superfluous mechanics, and bugs.

Игра классная, для игры с таким бюджетом топ.

The guns, movement and levels feel pretty fun. The voice acting and story are kinda odd. Also there are a decent amount of bugs nearly every players encounters. Other then that its worth a playtrhough (~5hrs) or smth like that.

After spending 21 hours and completing pretty much the entirety of this game my main thoughts are the following,while it has some characteristics of a truly great action game it also suffers by a number of issues that makes the game more in line with your slightly above average or 7/10 game. So it's an FPS action game with some light rpg elements like leveling up and upgrading some gear and abilities, so far so good and overall that's what it does well. It offers some good action while also featuring a well implemented grappling hook thing which it can really make a difference, also the shooting I think it's good enough and feels nice. What is not so great is the technical issues, how it looks and that it is in my opinion a rather outdated video game,also the characters not so great but I can live with that. So the game absolutely does not look next gen at least the way I experienced it, the vivid colors realistic high quality textures etc are not here. It is more reminiscent of an early to mid PS4 era FPS. Finally in a technical aspect this game is just terrible, from regural bugs and glitches,stacking in environments game crashing every 1-2 hours, HUD just disappearing from the screen for large amounts of time etc. A pretty big mess overall.

On its surface this game is doom eternal in 40k setting, which is something in theory i would delight. Sadly thats where the good things i can say about game ends. Gameplay is repetitive the story is HORRIBLE! Voice acting is poorly done. An ambitious game that has fails to deliver what it promises.

First of all, NHG is an arena shooter; some may like it, some may not (I don't). While the game is very likeable, IMO, it has some very annoying flaws: - it's buggy: there are clipping issues; sometimes, the player inadvertly gets out of the level boundaries, and they will be unable to get back in, necessarily losing a life - occasional "find the exit" mechanics: in an action game, such mechanics are not appropriate; it's out of place to figure out silly puzzles about finding how to escape - side missions are somewhat miscalibrated; it's hard to finish them before some levelling up; and again, some "find the exit" objectives are very annoying - glory kills are too slow - they really break the flow - and they're also not very clear as in Doom - at times, it's unclear if the objective is to escape an arena or keep killing enemies (and in the first case, one ends up wasting time) - at least one boss in the first half of the game is a silly bullet-sponge enemy; it takes something like 15/20 minutes of almost continued shooting, to the point that it's not clear if there's some other objective that one should pursue. It's a big shame, because the world is fantastic IMO.