Personal Rating: Meh : 3/10
Value for money: Fairly Priced
Play-time: N/A

Pros:
- Graphics are really great : Terminator marines look great and menacing
- Enemies does look interesting - when you can see them clearly
- Dark, atmospheric theme
- Melee weapons feedback is weighty
- Bugs fixed for the enhanced edition, better performance

Cons:
- Balancing the lore and gameplay killed the fun of playing an elite terminator marine
- Enemies blend somewhat with background
- Things get too hectic, too quickly
- AI teammates are terrible
- Starter abilities feel very lackluster
- Movement and pacing feels so slow
- Good theme, but boring map design (often too big and slow traversing makes it worse)
- Game mechanic design are mediocre
- Combat feels fun at time, but does not give you the power fantasy to fit the theme

I played through several hours on the non-enhanced version, which had bugs like see-through terrain, and this feels like a big step forward.

That being said, this game doesn't achieve the feel of being a terminator marine. I read a lot of Warhammer 40k novels, mainly on space marines - what I read and what the game provides feels very disconnected. Marines are meant to be a power house, and the terminator marines should be equivalent to a walking tank. However, it feels like they chose to contradict the established lore (Armour repairs by an apothecary injection, mass spamming of abilities by librarians, terminator being limited to walking through corridors, enemy dealing so much damage with peashooters). I understand this is for gameplay purposes and to not make players feel overpowered from the get go, but this kills the game theme for me. I have not encountered any co-op elements (crowd-control/disabling individual characters) like in L4D2, which makes it so monotonous just killing hordes of genestealers while navigating corridors. I did encounter one variant which exploded into a puddle of purple flames; probably have not played far enough into the campaign to discover more enemy types.

The campaign missions does not interest me and I will not rate it - slight variations to the coop game types of going to a destination and performing an action. The AI teammates are terrible: they can stare at enemies for a good 2-3 seconds while the xenomorph closes the gap and claws away 20% of their health before they start shooting. Teammates stand in the way of locking doors or walk in front of your reticle when you're firing. Enemies can spawn from various places, and if you're unlucky enough to trigger them while walking past a spawn time and get swamped, there's little you can do about it. When one of your elite teammates are killed you get a casual commentary similar to "Brother Reducial will fight no more" - which doesn't give them any character besides being replaceable fodder. I usually play games solo and have not tested playing co-op, which I think would be a lot better than the AI teammates (as long as they're not trolls locking the doors on you). I would not recommend the game if you're a fan of the books/lore as that was sacrificed for better cooperative gameplay mechanics. Unfortunately, I'd recommend Vermintide 2 over this game anytime.

Personal Rating: Meh : 3/10 Value for money: Fairly Priced Play-time: N/A Pros: - Graphics are really great : Terminator marines look great and menacing - Enemies does look interesting - when you can see them clearly - Dark, atmospheric theme - Melee weapons feedback is weighty - Bugs fixed for the enhanced edition, better performance Cons: - Balancing the lore and gameplay killed the fun of playing an elite terminator marine - Enemies blend somewhat with background - Things get too hectic, too quickly - AI teammates are terrible - Starter abilities feel very lackluster - Movement and pacing feels so slow - Good theme, but boring map design (often too big and slow traversing makes it worse) - Game mechanic design are mediocre - Combat feels fun at time, but does not give you the power fantasy to fit the theme I played through several hours on the non-enhanced version, which had bugs like see-through terrain, and this feels like a big step forward. That being said, this game doesn't achieve the feel of being a terminator marine. I read a lot of Warhammer 40k novels, mainly on space marines - what I read and what the game provides feels very disconnected. Marines are meant to be a power house, and the terminator marines should be equivalent to a walking tank. However, it feels like they chose to contradict the established lore (Armour repairs by an apothecary injection, mass spamming of abilities by librarians, terminator being limited to walking through corridors, enemy dealing so much damage with peashooters). I understand this is for gameplay purposes and to not make players feel overpowered from the get go, but this kills the game theme for me. I have not encountered any co-op elements (crowd-control/disabling individual characters) like in L4D2, which makes it so monotonous just killing hordes of genestealers while navigating corridors. I did encounter one variant which exploded into a puddle of purple flames; probably have not played far enough into the campaign to discover more enemy types. The campaign missions does not interest me and I will not rate it - slight variations to the coop game types of going to a destination and performing an action. The AI teammates are terrible: they can stare at enemies for a good 2-3 seconds while the xenomorph closes the gap and claws away 20% of their health before they start shooting. Teammates stand in the way of locking doors or walk in front of your reticle when you're firing. Enemies can spawn from various places, and if you're unlucky enough to trigger them while walking past a spawn time and get swamped, there's little you can do about it. When one of your elite teammates are killed you get a casual commentary similar to "Brother Reducial will fight no more" - which doesn't give them any character besides being replaceable fodder. I usually play games solo and have not tested playing co-op, which I think would be a lot better than the AI teammates (as long as they're not trolls locking the doors on you). I would not recommend the game if you're a fan of the books/lore as that was sacrificed for better cooperative gameplay mechanics. Unfortunately, I'd recommend Vermintide 2 over this game anytime.