The sprites of the cultists, Chaos Marines, and daemons that you fight across the game appear neatly drawn and simply animated, until that is, you attack one with the game's opening weapon, the chainsword. That physical depth is also extended to your enemies, though in a very different fashion. It really sells you on embodying this juggernaut of a character, lending them the physical depth that their sprite-based limbs lack. Every footstep falls with an audible clank, while dropping from a height sounds like someone pushed a tank off a cliff (and has the same effect upon any unfortunate enemy stood beneath you when you land). But Auroch has wisely imbued a tangible sense of weight to that movement, reflecting your character's weaponised bulk.
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Your space marine can zip around maps like any classic FPS avatar. They may not be as detailed as Darktide's Tertium, but Boltgun's maps are every bit as colossal.Īlthough Boltgun may look "old", it feels distinctly modern beneath the fingers. Across your adventure, you'll explore sprawling gothic cityscapes and gigantic industrial complexes, where the roiling fountains of molten metal are as much a threat as the enemies clawing at your armour. Of course, Boltgun's technical limitations are only affected, meaning it can infuse the 40k universe with the grandeur it warrants. This might be partly down to both being licensed shooters, but it's also evident in how they use comparatively basic visual techniques to present a galaxy of vast scale. The game it most strongly reminds me of, however, is Star Wars: Dark Forces. Visually, Boltgun derives from the Doom and Duke Nukem school of polygonal environments and sprite-based enemies.
Watch on YouTube Here's a gameplay trailer to show you some Boltgun in action. But your team is killed in the initial drop, leaving you alone to battle a rapidly developing incursion by the forces of Chaos. The Adeptus Mechanicus has picked up strange readings in the forge world system of Graia, and dispatches you, along with a small team of other Space Marines to investigate. A brief cutscene summarises the situation. Unlike how it introduces its signature firearm, Boltgun doesn't stand on ceremony getting you into the action. Boltgun's boltgun is the virtual firearm perfected, so innately satisfying that it blows away the game's own power curve alongside the hordes of daemons you'll slaughter with it. No other weapon is afforded such treatment, which is appropriate because no other weapon is as good. It's a fitting introduction to Boltgun's eponymous weapon, not just because the game revels in the excess of both 40k and mid-nineties shooters, but also in how it reflects upon its strengths and, by association, weaknesses.
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Availability: Out 23 May on PC ( Steam), PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, and Switch."A Holy Relic!" burbles your accompanying servo-skull as you lock and load. In the opening level, your hulking space marine discovers the titular firearm on a literal altar, a chorus of angelic voices chanting as you pluck the weapon from its pedestal.
Warhammer: 40k Boltgun takes this to its absurd logical endpoint. Video games have always treated guns with a certain reverence, from the wicked grin of Doom's marine when he picks up the shotgun, to the pornographic customisation options of modern Call of Duty.
Boltgun's boltgun earns a place in the pantheon of great video game weapons, but the rest of the game's arsenal doesn't quite live up to it.
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