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I will admit it has amazing verticality with decent gunplay, but that can't save this truly unpolished piece of trash. If it wasn't for the 40k setting, I would never recommend it to anyone. People call this bolter porn, but the damned weapon sounds horrible and isn't worth it.
Hired Gun (at least on XONE/PS4) is a mess. I can forgive the jank as hell controls and the lack of enough sensitivity controls considering I already have stick drift and deal with that in several other games.
May 31, 2021 · Necromunda: Hired Gun is a fairly easy game to explain. It’s a first-person shooter with a linear story. You play as a bounty hunter who’s sent after targets hiding in expansive Warhammer...
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Jun 8, 2021 · Necromunda: Hired Gun is just OK, but the setting still rules. Any chance to explore the coolest Warhammer 40K setting
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By Travis Northup
Updated: Jun 4, 2021 2:54 pm
Posted: Jun 3, 2021 2:06 am
Necromunda is the kind of game that makes me appreciate when developers are given the time they need to really polish a game to a shine, because this is what happens when they aren’t. It’s a fast-paced, gore-filled shooter in the same vein as Doom Eternal with a Warhammer flavor and some RPG elements thrown in, and combat is brutal, violent and often satisfying... but also sloppy and buggy. You’ll see yourself and others phase through the environment, slide around the level during melee animations before popping back into place, and even experience a hard crash or two when your skills are just too much for Necromunda to handle. All of that really sucks the fun out of what should be a great time.
You can see the potential of the gunplay in the moments where things come together – especially when you find a weapon that fits your playstyle well or you use Necromunda’s insane mobility to take out the bad guys in some really awesome way. Between midair dashing, double-jumping, and your grappling hook you can glide across massive areas in seconds and take out enemies with extreme precision. Most of the weapons feel great, from powerful shotguns that turn people into red giblets at close range to heavy weapons that can tear through enemies and scarcely need to be aimed.
As you find or purchase better loot and discover a build that fits your playstyle you can go nuts with some insane builds, like carrying around multiple shotguns and maximizing your mobility so you can zip around the map and blast baddies in the face, or a sniper-focused build where you focus your equipment on improving your odds of getting powerful loot drops.
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That said, the sights you’ll see along the way are actually quite impressive. Each level is massive and provides plenty of opportunity to wall-run and grapple across rooms as you conduct your orchestra of destruction. You’ll see massive metal trains, creepy, derelict structures, and even an obligatory sewer level, each with plenty of nooks and crannies hiding loot to be claimed and enemies to be slaughtered.
The campaign is short and ends with such little fanfare it actually made me laugh, but there are lots of side quests and repeatable content to keep you looting and shooting for much longer than the six to eight hours the main missions offer. You can replay campaign levels to improve your ranking or grind for loot, or tackle side quests to earn extra money. Side quests reuse areas from the campaign and amount to little more than short bounties to “kill 10 of this enemy type,” but many are at least more challenging than the story missions and offer enough credits to make it worth your while.
Necromunda: Hired Gun has an iconic setting, lots of gore, and great mobility and gunplay, but it keeps giving you reasons to not play it. Whether it's the technical issues, the hopelessly dim AI, or a story that’s as bland as a barn door and comically short, you have to be willing to overlook a towering pile of aggravating problems in order to app...
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mediocre
Necromunda: Hired Gun shoots itself in the foot with bugs galore, brain-dead AI, and a dull, nonsensical story.
Travis Northup
Jun 1, 2021 · Summary Become a Hired Gun. The money’s good, the dog’s loyal, and the gun’s reliable. Embark on an indie fast-paced, violent, and thrilling FPS set in the darkest reaches of Warhammer 40,000’s most infamous hive city. Platforms: Xbox Series X.
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Necromunda: Hired Gun is an indie fast-paced, violent, and thrilling FPS set in the darkest reaches of Warhammer 40,000’s most infamous hive city. For the right price, eliminate the most notorious gangers and mutants. Your armory is a sprawling arsenal.
