Necromunda: Hired Gun

[h1]Review[/h1] From the studio Streum On Studio which is basically known only for the bizarre E.Y.E: Divine Cybermancy and the underwhelming Space Hulk: Deathwing, comes another entry in the Warhammer universe. While Necromunda itself is a distinct niche of the franchise, this game barely feels like Warhammer at all, and unfortunately, it carries over many of the studio’s familiar issues. [u]Gameplay[/u] Your character moves extremely fast, too fast for the game’s own design. Aside from the first level, the environments rarely complement your movement abilities. Levels are either too large and open or too cramped to properly use mechanics like dodging or wall-running. While visually impressive, most maps feel disconnected from the gameplay and lack meaningful flow. Combat is chaotic and does not allow for tactical movement and usage of weapons. Enemies are plentiful and unnervingly accurate, often forcing you to rely heavily on augmentations like slow-motion to survive. Encounters feel artificially prolonged, with waves of enemies that seem to spawn endlessly. Once you unlock the grappling hook, you can bypass large chunks of levels entirely until the game funnels you into arena fights. Enemy variety is limited: you’ll mostly face tanky abhumans, robots, and standard human enemies with either physical or energy shields. Between missions, you can upgrade a wide array of augmentations, which is one of the more enjoyable systems. Fully upgrading them requires grinding bounties which are short, repetitive missions that quickly lose their appeal. This grind feels unnecessary. The ranking system is also oddly designed. Achieving high ranks often means avoiding combat entirely and focusing on collectibles or specific kill types like headshots or melee, which clashes with the game’s shooter mechanics. Weapons have some interesting ideas behind them, but the looter-shooter system feels tacked on. A simpler upgrade or purchase system would have worked better. The biggest issue, however, is the gunplay. Fast movement, tight spaces, and small enemies make aiming feel impossible. Ironically, the most effective way to play is by relying on auto-aim upgrade or instant-kill augmentations rather than engaging with the shooting mechanics directly. [u]Story[/u] The story is a confusing mess that tries to tie everything together in the final act while also teasing a sequel. While the ending itself is decent, it’s undermined by an underwhelming boss fight, something that’s unfortunately consistent throughout the game. [u]Sound[/u] The soundtrack leans heavily on generic metal tracks. Voice acting is serviceable, especially for the protagonist. Weapon sound design stands out positively, with some satisfying effects. I liked particularly the plasma rifle. [u]Graphics[/u] Visually, the game is a mixed bag. The environments, industrial complexes, tunnels, and underground arenas are often unique and atmospheric. However, character models and animations are noticeably lacking. This creates an uneven presentation that feels like a clash between high and low production values. [u]Conclusion / TL;DR[/u] Necromunda: Hired Gun has some strong ideas, particularly in its movement system and augmentation mechanics, but they are poorly integrated into the overall design. Frustrating gunplay, inconsistent level design, repetitive content, and a messy story hold it back significantly. There is barely any audience for this game. There is not enough diverse loot to justify it as a looter shooter, the balancing and shooting mechanics make it an inferior doom clone. Its a below average experience in every way.

With its fast movement and traversal mechanics, gory combat, special powers and clear focus on gunplay, Necromunda : Hired Gun is definitely what you'd call a Boomer Shooter. I hope that it's not derogatory or shows my age, because... I've enjoyed it ! Let's get something out of the way first, though : Necromunda is ugly. Even on high settings, the game's textures and colors look washed-out, the characters lack details, and the almost exclusively dark environments don't help either. It's a shame, because the overall design is quite nice. Between gothic buildings, mechanical structures and even a massive moving train, the levels are really diverse ! The other disappointing aspect is the incomprehensible story. It will probably make more sense (or at least, some) to fans of the Warhammer 40K series, and maybe they will have heard of some of the characters you meet here, but it basically exists just so that you have things to shoot at. Which is what the game is all about ! The shooting ! And I think it's quite good. There are many different weapons to play with, from heavy gatling guns, lasers and black hole guns, to the more classic shotguns and assault rifles. You can find higher tier weapons as drops during the missions, and upgrade or customize them in many ways once you're back at the base. Add a sight, a muzzle, or change the way the gun fires... It's pretty advanced and I had a lot of fun tinkering with that, which makes the gunplay even more satisfying. You can also upgrade your character ! Raise your stats, improve your companion dog's efficiency, or acquire devastating special powers for new ways to reduce your enemies to cinders. That's almost too many options for when you're in combat, and if you choose to use those powers (why wouldn't you ?), it's obvious that they're pretty overpowered. Good thing is, the enemies are overpowered too ! So if everyone is overpowered, then... No one is ? They can kill you so quickly that the game strikes a fair balance in terms of difficulty. The levels are open enough to make use of the many traversal mechanics, and secret chests are hidden everywhere to reward exploration. Still, the game only takes between 6 and 8 hours to beat, but there are randomized side missions to provide some replayability and an endless number of targets. At the end of the day, Necromunda : Hired Gun is a short but fun shooter with satisfying gunplay, even if the other aspects remain a little lackluster. It's a [b] 6[/b] to me. I'll forget about it quickly, but I definitely had a good time !

The game is playable. I didn’t experience crashes, performance was smooth and achievements unlock normally. However, the grapple hook is a problem. The game is supposed to be fast-paced and encourages quick movement, but while using the hook I often got stuck in textures, which completely breaks the flow and can leave you stuck.

Sorry to write this but the game is a wash. It crashed 3-5 times. The UI is unintuitive and annoying to figure out. Story is disapointing. You are a pawn in someone else game but have no emotional connection to anything that is happening. The only characters I liked were the dog and the guide. Only emotions I felt was slight horror watching my dog being turned into a cyborg, sorry boy but I don't even know if it was worth it. The combat at times would really work and I would be enjoying the game. However I ran into too many bullet sponges and unfun enemies. Some bosses died quickly while other took too long. The game gives you the ability to wall run and makes most walls difficult to run on. I feel like the game designer and the level designer had different ideas. The game really should given you the first rank of all the abilities as I played the first 5 levels only focusing on slow time and increasing loot drop. You need to unlock everything as you go rather than focusing on certain skills. Last bit is how dissapointing the clan Esher skin was. Come on show a bit of skin. 4/10

Разработчики на полном серьёзе продают своё говно, которое они называют игрой за 2000 рубасов. Играя на высокой я понял следующее: Есть прокачка персонажа, но хватит и пассивки на хп и щит. Есть разные апгрейды пушек, но они не нужны. Есть разные аксессуары разного качества, но эпик от обычки редко отличается. Есть продавец пушек, но толку от него мало, т.к продаёт срань, которая хуже того, что можно получить на первых уровнях. Есть боссы, но все они багнутые. Каждый из них может пропасть или застрять в текстурах. Они настолько фигово сделаны, что на каждой арене с ними есть продавец стимуляторов за 40 гривен, которые позволяют воскрешаться прямо в бою пока не закончатся деньги. Ну почти на всех аренах, кроме последних, но... С них можно просто выйти, купить в городе хилки со стимуляторами и вернуться. Есть оргрины, которые кидаются подожжёнными пропитанными спиртягой какахами в игрока. Есть текстуры, в них можно застрять. Есть уровни, где надо больше бегать, чем стрелять. Есть музыка, но она пропадает и приходится бегать в тишине Есть интерфейс, но он пропадает и приходится бегать без него. Есть совесть у разработчиков, но нет.

Как ни странно, игру рекомендую, как шутер с офигенной вертикальностью, приятной стрельбой и неплохой кастомизацией пушек, он вполне работает. Я провел 19 часов в игре и это было весело. Если хотите шутерок на вечерок (пару-тройку) - вполне годно. Только не ждите от игры ваха лора, глубоких сюжетных поворотов и ПРОДУМАННОСТИЮ тут таких нет. В следующей части хотелось бы больше пушек, больше прокачки, может ДРУГИХ локаций, да? =) Thank you devs, LF next your game!

Aesthetics are nailed. Player controls are fluid and very dynamic in all dimensions. Weapons are cool. Graphics are cool. Art is cool. Level design is okay. Regarding the story - nothing makes sense. The plot doesn't make sense, it is meaningless to follow it. Who killed who and why and how is our protagonist even related. Dialogues are out of place completely. All of them. Of all the characters. They make zero sense and it's hard to follow them. Also poor enemy variety and plot isn't synchronized with them any how. It's the same thin thugs, buff thugs, women psyker thugs, ogryns, dogs and combat servitors. In every location. A WH40K theme park.

Пляяяя.... В очередной раз, читаешь отзывы этих ипучих Еретиков у которых все кал.кал.кал И в очередной раз заходишь в игру и понимаешь что все вполне себе ничего так. Я хз что это за люди... Недолюбленные какие то. Забейте! графоний норм, ваховская атмосфера есть, стрельба не ВАУ но не плохая уж точно. Поиграл с удовольствием. Да, Слабых мест хватает, нет мультиплеера, кривенькие анимации, посредственный сюжет. Но я сначала посмотрел часовой видос на ютубчике про лор планеты Некромунда, про пищу из трупного крахмала, и фабрики по переработке тел) И потом пошел играть, мне в принципе фантазии хватило додумать то чего нет по сюжету. Хаха. Короче легкая смесь RAGE, Pаinkiller(старый) и еще чего то. Играется приятно, а уж за 300 рубасов, еще и ныть что плохая игра... Стыдоба. Короче советую!

Played this game for 97 min and the game has bugged out 3 times already forcing me to lose progress and/or restart a mission. You will occasionally just jump somewhere the game doesn't want you to be and you are frozen in place. Or maybe a door opens but you run away to go explore a different part of the map, when you come back the door is open but you can't go through it bc there is an invisible wall there as if the door was still closed. Very frustrating.