Necromunda: Hired Gun Reviews
A fast-paced FPS set in a Warhammer 40,000 universe, with a captivating setting and an exceptional soundtrack.
A serious lack of polish and some unnecessary padding keeps it from being great, and it’s still got nothing on the criminally underrated and oft-forgotten Warhammer 40k: Space Marine – the pinnacle of action games set in that universe.
Necromunda: Hired Gun is an enjoyable dive into the grime of Warhammer 40,000's most corrupt city. But all of the incredible atmosphere in the world can't hide its rough edges.
Hired Gun is almost great in its core shooting mechanic and offers nice Warhammer 40K aesthetic, but everything else in this game is mediocre at best.
Review in Russian | Read full review
Necromunda: Hired Gun is a very cool game. A pleasant shooting model, great music and design and a correspondingly long campaign. The PS4 version, however, has a lot of liquidity issues, and a dead zone was forced in aiming, which takes away the pleasure of shooting. If you play it on newer hardware.
Review in Polish | Read full review
Necromunda: Hired Gun is a game for those who enjoy the action, with brutal and bloody combat, as well as confrontations that always make you feel satisfied. The mix between scenarios, with amazing art and design, verticality and gunplay can work very well and be really fun. Unfortunately, his mistakes take their toll and ruin a game that in design and proposal had a lot of potential.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
Despite some brisk and occasionally satisfying combat, Necromunda: Hired Gun is a boring and clunky foray into a deep dark hole within the WH40K universe.
Necromunda: Hired Gun is not so bad. But could be better without baseless RPG elements and there should be better weapons.
Review in Slovak | Read full review
The patches are coming out steadily, the developers are trying to fix their mess, but in the end, Hired Gun leaves you with a bitter taste. This could have been a memorable game, yet Necromunda: Hired Gun feels like an ambitious project too big for such a small developer.
Necromunda: Hired Gun is a game that goes far from doing justice to the setting, having serious problems in its gameplay and a narrative that does not hold the player at any time. Add to that a vast amount of technical problems and it's a game to be avoided.
Review in Portuguese | Read full review
It’s probably the most polished game Streum On Studio has made yet, even if it doesn’t quite have the same level of depth and complexity as E.Y.E: Divine Cybermancy. It’s both a pretty solid shooter, and a fairly good Warhammer 40k game overall; so long as you go in expecting a somewhat buggy and unpolished experience.
This was a rollercoaster of a review, through no fault on my own. This is the first time I've ever done a complete 180 mid-way through writing, but I suppose that it's only fair if the patches didn't just fix small issues, but rather fundamentally changed the way the game plays. The score has to be indicative of the product the consumer is going to buy, and as of right now, that product is a 6/10 - an average game in every respect, but also one that gets an extra point for being exceedingly faithful to the license it's based upon, and thus likely to please long-term fans of WH40K. It pleased me, at least.
A Bounty You Can Safely Skip
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
Review in Italian | Read full review
Necromunda: Hired Gun wisely aims high but ultimately flubs the execution on too many fronts to warrant a universal recommendation, but for the most hardcore Warhammer or first-person shooter fans it may be worth a look for the amusing marriage of its ideas.
After spending some intimate time with Necromunda: Hired Gun, I can only describe the game as incredibly average. Its really flawed and fun parts cancel each other out in a near-perfect way leading to one of the most middling experiences I've had this year. However, if you're a Doom loyalist and enjoy the FPS genre, there is some fun to be had with this mixed bag of a game regardless.
Necromunda: Hired Gun features a stunning art direction, but with a garbled story and more technical and design blemishes than you can poke a space stick at, this one's bound to be buried in the under-hive.
There is some merit to how enjoyable the movement is in this game. However, it’s clear there are polish and refinements required if this bounty hunter wants to make bank. Necromunda: Hired Gun is messy and not the game Warhammer 40,000 fans or FPS lovers will be speaking about in years to come.
In sum, Necromunda: Hired Gun is a very mixed offering. It seems that for every pro the game brings, there is a con to match it. I still had fun with Necromunda, but the experience is tainted significantly by the various issues — technical and otherwise — that the game has at the time of this writing.