You have a quick command tool to make them follow, defend or do their stuff, which could be handy given their often suicidal tendencies. Meanwhile, your crew can alternate between following you around and blasting and lending their own unique skills to the fray, including – in your Apothecary’s case – a little healing. Good luck when there’s a tidal wave of the bastards. You have one ranged weapon and one melee weapon with which to hold them at bay, plus a small selection of psionic attacks and defences to deploy. It’s a shame you’re going to find them out.Įach mission is a lengthy, heavily armoured plod through winding, poorly-lit corridors and dark industrial chambers, brightened only by the odd grand space of gothic sci-fi architecture.Īs you and your team clonk and clank along in your Terminator armour, you’ll be swarmed by hordes of the fiendish genestealers, streaming out through every outlet and down from every surface, often straight into the fire of your overheating guns. Here lies an ancient Dark Angels ship containing some dark secrets that would be better left undiscovered. It’s an odd squad-based, first-person shooter where, as a Librarian for one of the fiercest regiments of the Dark Angels space marine chapter, you lead a team of three into the heart of a derelict space hulk. On the bad news front, the main campaign doesn’t play much better than it did 18 months ago. Is this enough to transform Deathwing into a half-decent Warhammer 40K game? Well, there’s good news and bad. Meanwhile, a whole ton of bugs and glitches have been firmly ironed out. Solo players don’t miss out entirely, with a series of procedurally generated special missions that turn the main campaign’s environments into shorter challenge levels. Not an awful lot has happened to the single-player campaign, but the Left 4 Dead-style multiplayer mode gets a new progression system with weapons, armour and customisation unlocks, a new class – the Chaplain – to play as, and new weapons and enemy types. This new Enhanced Edition, the game’s debut on PS4, is an attempt to draw a line under that old version and remind everyone that the development team at Streum has – to its credit – spent the last 18 months improving the game. A dreary mess of an FPS scarred by bad level design and woeful AI, delivering little more than endless hours of repetitive blasting.

On every other front it was a disappointment. The original PC version of Deathwing had two points in its favour: it did rock-solid service for fans of Games Workshop’s grimdark sci-fi universe, and it wasn’t the worst Warhammer 40K game to come out in 2016 (stand up Warhammer 40,000: Eternal Crusade).

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