The levels are linear and tight and almost exclusively set through corridors or trenches.Īs a result, combat is gratifyingly intense, if somewhat samey. Apart from the obligatory high-resolution textures and a rudimentary online mode, very little has been added to make use of the PC’s power. Without wanting to appear elitist, the problem with Fire Warrior is that it was designed from the outset as a console shooter. Regardless, all without exception die within 20 seconds of you meeting them. Thankfully, rather than having to rely solely on your arsenal of weapons, you do at least occasionally find yourself fighting alongside other Tau Fire Warriors, some of whom lay down suppressive fire, while others must be protected while they open locked doors. Even when you get the chance to pick up a new weapon there is always something faulty the M16-style machine gun, for example, has a muzzle flash that practically whites-out most of the screen. Unfortunately, while the weapons look convincing enough to please the Warhammer faithful, FPS veterans with not a care for the licence will find most of them lacking real punch and, early on especially, rather flimsy and ineffectual. The weapons too are faithfully recreated, from las-guns, blowtorch-style melta-guns, all the way to bolters and a missile launcher -plus a couple of fixed cannons for good measure. Just as pleasing for the same reason are some of the maps burning Predator tanks lay scuppered in desolate trenches, while later on you get to stalk the corridors of an Imperial Battleship. Space Marines, a Dreadnought and even the omnipresent Chaos legions turn up at various points, all of which will please the Warhammer faithful no end, seeing as they've never been given the 3D game treatment before. While the aim of the game is obvious, the storyline does try to twist the plot, at least enough to bring in various enemy units to battle. Yep, it's one-man-army-saves-galaxy-despite-insurmountable-odds time again.
The first mission is to spring a high-ranking agent from an Impenal pnson, but over the course of 20 missions it becomes clear that it is the entire Tau race that needs liberating, as ever, from the boundless clutches of the hateful Imperium.
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Fortunately for the sake of my personal hygiene and the eternal love of a good woman, Fire Warrior - the first FPS to be set in Games Workshop’s 41 st-century war-torn universe - is far less demanding than its tabletop brethren, requiring only a cursory knowledge of the 40K universe and a modest PC to get started.Ĭuriously, rather than focusing its attentions on the genetically-altered heroes of the Imperial Space Marines, the game casts you as Kais, a fledgling Tau soldier of the Fire Warriors caste about to undergo on-the-job training. But the pull of Warhammer is still strong despite being clean for a decade.įaced with the prospect of playing Fire Warrior, I honestly feared that it would turn me back down the dark path. I was one of the lucky ones, I managed to get out long before acquinng the cheese-ball whiff and an ear for Napalm Death. Attic AttacĬrudely daubed in acrylics and tissue-wrapped, my own collection of miniatures rests peacefully in dog-eared boxes somewhere in the loft - never to see the light again. And for your utter devotion you will be forever rewarded with the Curse Of Nurgle' - bubbling acne and the lingering pong of Cheesy Wotsits and white spirits that will shadow you to your doom. High priests in waiting must become one with all of the GW realms, they must befriend the hardcore regulars at their local GW temple and cultivate a liking for metal in all its musical and physical forms. It takes more than a subscription to White Dwarf magazine and a proficiency in the art of drybrushing to get into the inner circle. The Cult Of Games Workshop not only requires its acolytes to devour and eventually regurgitate its many rule-sets, but to buy and lovingly paint hundreds of lead figures before war across the bedroom carpet can even begin. The road to becoming a fully-fledged Warhammer fanatic is long, expensive and arduous.
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