Great game overall.

The campaign is only 5-10 hours but full of epic moments and beautiful setpieces. The art design and graphics are excellent. My one gripe about the campaign is that the AI teammates are useless above normal difficulty. You cannot rely on them to kill anything and the enemies have too much HP above normal to solo quickly. If you want to play through the campaign on one of the harder difficulties I would suggest grabbing some friends if you can.

Overall the game reminds me of older action shooting games where you can find equipment and pickups scattered around linear levels. The encounter design is very good. The game constantly puts you in different combat situations and sprinkles in minibosses here and there. You are also expected to parry and dodge attacks if you want to make it out of situations alive as the enemies are dangerous. If you play well, you wipe them out, if you don't you tend to get overwhelmed and probably die.

That's the other amazing thing about this game: the enemy design. The way the Tyranids move together in huge swarms is spectacular. Enemy diversity is also very good with almost every unit having ranged and melee variants. Elite enemies and bosses also have a pretty diverse move sets.

It's a good thing this game has great enemy design since you'll be spending a lot of time fighting them in coop since the game's "Operations" are where most of the replayability is. While the game does its best to keep the 6 different coop missions feeling fresh with semi random enemy and equipment spawns the objectives and level layout remain the same. The more powerful weapons and perks you unlock as you level up do offer a pretty good boost in strength at least.

It would be VERY nice if the devs would add the campaign missions into the pool of coop missions as that would double the amount of levels you have to play through while leveling the different classes.

That's the only reason that makes me hesitate to recommend this game though. I really wish it had more than 6 operations. Thankfully there will be more PvE missions at some point this year. The game is good, but unless you're fond of the Warhammer 40k universe I imagine the content will feel a little thin.

it's worth noting that I have not tried the PvP yet though.

Great game overall. The campaign is only 5-10 hours but full of epic moments and beautiful setpieces. The art design and graphics are excellent. My one gripe about the campaign is that the AI teammates are useless above normal difficulty. You cannot rely on them to kill anything and the enemies have too much HP above normal to solo quickly. If you want to play through the campaign on one of the harder difficulties I would suggest grabbing some friends if you can. Overall the game reminds me of older action shooting games where you can find equipment and pickups scattered around linear levels. The encounter design is very good. The game constantly puts you in different combat situations and sprinkles in minibosses here and there. You are also expected to parry and dodge attacks if you want to make it out of situations alive as the enemies are dangerous. If you play well, you wipe them out, if you don't you tend to get overwhelmed and probably die. That's the other amazing thing about this game: the enemy design. The way the Tyranids move together in huge swarms is spectacular. Enemy diversity is also very good with almost every unit having ranged and melee variants. Elite enemies and bosses also have a pretty diverse move sets. It's a good thing this game has great enemy design since you'll be spending a lot of time fighting them in coop since the game's "Operations" are where most of the replayability is. While the game does its best to keep the 6 different coop missions feeling fresh with semi random enemy and equipment spawns the objectives and level layout remain the same. The more powerful weapons and perks you unlock as you level up do offer a pretty good boost in strength at least. It would be VERY nice if the devs would add the campaign missions into the pool of coop missions as that would double the amount of levels you have to play through while leveling the different classes. That's the only reason that makes me hesitate to recommend this game though. I really wish it had more than 6 operations. Thankfully there will be more PvE missions at some point this year. The game is good, but unless you're fond of the Warhammer 40k universe I imagine the content will feel a little thin. it's worth noting that I have not tried the PvP yet though.