Necromunda: Hired Gun Reviews
Necromunda: Hired Gun is a perfect example of a game that does the Warhammer 40k license justice. If it had the time to hammer out the bugs and issues it could have easily been a sleeper hit of 2021. As it stands it remains a forgettable release that launched with too many issues to keep players’ attention. Even well after launch the game remains in a bad state that makes it hard for me to recommend checking it out. I hope the game gets ironed out at some point, but by then it may be far too late to return to.
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.
And so, Necromunda often oscillates between a brilliant indie gem and a frustrating mid-tier game.
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.
Some good warhammer 40k vibes can be found here but there's just a bit too much going on in Necromunda: Hired Gun. The fast-paced FPS gameplay needs refining and is constantly slowed down by the RPG elements which in turn are not allowed to shine through the FPS aspect. I actually think this setting would lend itself more to a Skyrim style RPG more so than a first person shooter but this is what we got and I am actually a bit gutted that I can't like it more than I do.
A fairly fun bullet-hell shooter frustrated by under-realised features and missed narrative opportunities. Ultimately, Hired Gun falls into a pitfall all too common to Warhammer adaptations: that of only ever feeling skin deep.
In spite of these flaws, the chaotic level of excess is also why it's still worth giving Necromunda: Hired Gun a chance at some point if the bugs and crashing end up fixed. Firing off giant green energy spheres and grenades before teleporting into a huge enemy and making them explode is fun even if it's not challenging. This is the type of design that's overflowing with ideas, mixing and matching concepts from other titles just to see what sticks. Even if the game doesn't come together as a cohesive whole, there's enough fun here to keep fans of FPS and 40K happy. Combine all that with the beautifully realized environments of Warhammer's darkest underground city and Necromunda: Hired Gun gives off a great vibe and ends up enjoyable despite itself.
The most obvious conclusion of Necromunda Hired Gun is that it's a shame. The technical difficulties are easily solvable, but they discourage any player from starting a game, being the most advisable to wait for a first patch that fixes the aiming and the strange ghosting. Since the gameplay is directly affected and the title bases its fun on it, the reasons for recommending it decrease to insalvables levels.
Review in Spanish | 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.
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.
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.
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
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 perfect example of a game that masters one thing and neglects the rest. The fun gameplay is matched by disastrous game design decisions, with myriad technical issues that make it an otherwise ordinary experience.
Review in Arabic | Read full review
Necromunda: Hired Gun unfortunately suffers from several bugs that make it a too immature game to be enjoyed properly. Underneath these issues, however, there is a far from trivial FPS.
Review in Italian | Read full review
Necromunda Hired Gun rests its foot on the accelerator of dynamism and violence, however it has an inaccurate aim. Many of its problems stem from strictly technical stumbles, some of which can be filed with special updates (such as bugs or application crashes), while others are inherent in its playful DNA, and have to do with almost completely absent feedback from shots, with a coarse artificial intelligence to the far-fetched, and with a general flatness of shootings.
Review in Italian | Read full review
Necromunda: Hired Gun has a lot of going on, but most of the game's elements remain half-baked. The bugs will be fixed eventually, but the mediocre campaign and redundant side-missions isn't something you can fix easily.
Review in Slovak | Read full review