Space Hulk: Deathwing

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5.6

Mixed or average reviews- based on 117 Ratings

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  2. Mixed: 25 out of 117
  3. Negative: 44 out of 117

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  1. benefalcon
    Dec 14, 2016
    3
    Graphics and atmosphere are a plus. However, the bugs are omnipresent. The framerate is horrible even when tuning down. The coop mode is a joke, no progression, no customization. I'm very disappointed and i expected a lot more. They released this game way too soon. It's simply not ready.
  2. zifnub
    Dec 16, 2016
    3
    -Melee combat is very disconnected & floaty, might as well be waving a cardboard tube around.
    -Heavily CPU dependent, barely uses the GPU, game freezes up regularly on 100% CPU spikes.
    -AI can be summed up as "spawn and waddle over to player" -Keybindings don't work properly, forget playing this if you do not have the standard querty keyboard layout. -UI is horribly designed and    -Melee combat is very disconnected & floaty, might as well be waving a cardboard tube around.
    -Heavily CPU dependent, barely uses the GPU, game freezes up regularly on 100% CPU spikes.
    -AI can be summed up as "spawn and waddle over to player"
    -Keybindings don't work properly, forget playing this if you do not have the standard querty keyboard layout.
    -UI is horribly designed and painful to use
    -loading times that take around 5 minutes.

    The only redeeming qualities of the game are the atmosphere & art design which are both very well done    … Expand
  3. Thylbanus
    Dec 16, 2016
    3
    Wow. I am TOTALLY disappointed. Other than the somewhat decent graphics, this is totally not a good translation for those who are fans of the Warhammer 40k universe. The changes made for "gameplay" totally don't make sense coming from the world. If you are expecting the thrill and excitement of being a supersoldier of Humanity, don't buy this game. This is just a poor version ofWow. I am TOTALLY disappointed. Other than the somewhat decent graphics, this is totally not a good translation for those who are fans of the Warhammer 40k universe. The changes made for "gameplay" totally don't make sense coming from the world. If you are expecting the thrill and excitement of being a supersoldier of Humanity, don't buy this game. This is just a poor version of Aliens: Colonial Marines.

    Yea, I know how bad that was.    … Expand
  4. Infearno666
    Mar 31, 2018
    0
    I've so far got this game to lunch a grand total of once. I've tried reinstalling after deleting all files, including AppDataLocalSpaceHulkGame. It simply wont lunch anymore. I get the splash screen then a default failed to run dialog. This thing is broken beyond repair. Avoid it.
  5. Doromeo
    Dec 25, 2016
    0
    I really like franchise of Warhammer 40K, but what is the crap I have seen? This game has a very bad optimization. Why to release such crude product? I buy the game but then after first start I get a bunch of bugs, crashes, freezes. I'm sorry but I can not play it, and I read reviews that game is uninteresting - maybe, maybe it is true... I set 0 points for the very bad optimization ofI really like franchise of Warhammer 40K, but what is the crap I have seen? This game has a very bad optimization. Why to release such crude product? I buy the game but then after first start I get a bunch of bugs, crashes, freezes. I'm sorry but I can not play it, and I read reviews that game is uninteresting - maybe, maybe it is true... I set 0 points for the very bad optimization of the game. I can say it is a good end of this year because such crap should not take place in 2017!!! Happy New Year!… Expand
  6. Gulskjegg
    Dec 14, 2016
    0
    I had assumed the final product would be an improvement from the Beta. I was wrong. The game is poorly optimized, to say the least. While my system is far from state-of-the-art, with a 4ghz 8-core CPU, Radeon Fury X video card, 16GB of RAM, and a 1TB SSD, I would expect at least passable framerates. As a test, I lowered all options down to their lowest possible settings, and still gotI had assumed the final product would be an improvement from the Beta. I was wrong. The game is poorly optimized, to say the least. While my system is far from state-of-the-art, with a 4ghz 8-core CPU, Radeon Fury X video card, 16GB of RAM, and a 1TB SSD, I would expect at least passable framerates. As a test, I lowered all options down to their lowest possible settings, and still got miserable framerates. As far as gameplay, no quicksave, only console-like save points. Weak. Very weak. During combat, you spend most of your time staring at the backs of your AI team mates, as the developers somehow decided it was more important that your team move directly and specfically into the middle of your crosshair the moment you open fire. Why move to a wall or behind cover when you can simply stand in the way? After the first level, you discover there is no real story or team development, such as would be found in Republic Commando or GTA 5. No, your fellow marines are just nameless, faceless automatons you barely know or care about. Actual battle with the enemy is a blur of blood, muzzle flashes, and mind-numbing repetition run at a whopping 20FPS. The enemy just tumbles out of their spawn points and rushes at you blindly. You barely feel any mastery or control over your weapons, just spray-and-pray. The zoom function with the assault cannon is particularly annoying, as the screen jumps around to the point of near uselessness. I could go on, but I think you get where I am going at this point. The game feel very much like an indie development, with a severe lack of attention to detail. I think a 2 or 3 would be a fair score, but given that I am seeing some 10 scores being posted by what are very clearly shills, I am forced to lower my score to zero to compensate. If you are looking for a fun game, look elsewhere, because this aint it.… Expand
  7. MauleR
    Dec 14, 2016
    2
    This is a game made by fans for fans. If you're not a hardcore WH 40k fan - dodge this at all costs. The architecture of levels (not level design, but actual design) is great, it feels massive and a lot of love is put into it. Voice acting is good, so are the movies. Everything else is more suitable for a $10 indie game. Enemies are common and stupid, there are no physics, your squad isThis is a game made by fans for fans. If you're not a hardcore WH 40k fan - dodge this at all costs. The architecture of levels (not level design, but actual design) is great, it feels massive and a lot of love is put into it. Voice acting is good, so are the movies. Everything else is more suitable for a $10 indie game. Enemies are common and stupid, there are no physics, your squad is stupid, guns are generic, everything about the gameplay is stupid, srsly, Serious Sam 1 was more fun with that type of gameplay. Menu looks like it was made by a highschooler, upgrade system too. Relics found only have a name, no flair text, no explanation - nothing.
    This game should be treated as Spacehulk tourist simulator, nothing more.    … Expand
  8. Anastasi
    Dec 14, 2016
    0
    This trash. This is not a game. gameplay is like i am back in 90s. Stupid corridors, only 4-5 types on enemies. only 4 skills. no appearance change, no really new weapons, re relics. crashes all the time. multipalyers is so pathetic cuz it has no optimistaion. as a result this is only wasting of my money!!!!!!
  9. the_weeb
    Dec 15, 2016
    0
    This is a terrible game, and dont let the fanboy's convince you otherwise. Performance on a high end PC is terrible, you'd be lucky to get anymore than 40fps with a GTX1080@1440p and thats being generous.

    The game is full of bugs, it crashes all the time, the gameplay is shallow with no real weight behind it and there is little in the way of a progression system. Truly a half baked    This is a terrible game, and dont let the fanboy's convince you otherwise. Performance on a high end PC is terrible, you'd be lucky to get anymore than 40fps with a GTX1080@1440p and thats being generous.

    The game is full of bugs, it crashes all the time, the gameplay is shallow with no real weight behind it and there is little in the way of a progression system. Truly a half baked release - avoid.    … Expand
  10. kenng
    Apr 11, 2017
    0
    Pre-ordered the game hoping it will revive the love for the Warhammer universe only to be disappointed by almost everything in the game. Clunky interface, out dated graphics, poor gameplay. Only thing perhaps worth mentioning might be the sound effects. This game feels like a game made in 2000. No amount of optimisation or remaster can save it
  11. asmonsz
    Dec 15, 2016
    0
    Disappointment of the year. It's even worse than "No Man Sky"

    Multiplayer is boring coz we don't have character progression and customizing, u simple can't improve ur character at all. U just have 2-3 weapons and 4 **** looking abilities. Interaction between players is also very poor coz of bad level design. This game have U4 engine but textures are from 90s of past century, also    Disappointment of the year. It's even worse than "No Man Sky"

    Multiplayer is boring coz we don't have character progression and customizing, u simple can't improve ur character at all. U just have 2-3 weapons and 4 **** looking abilities. Interaction between players is also very poor coz of bad level design.

    This game have U4 engine but textures are from 90s of past century, also very rough animation and I have feeling that ingame interface was drawn in windows paint.

    Huge amount of technicals problems: poor optimization, crashes, bugs, long loading screens etc. etc.

    Refund after 2 hours of playing. Enough of this trash.0/10    … Expand
  12. eelegendo
    Jan 14, 2017
    4
    Pro: great feeling, could have been the best fps(?) after Space Hulk 2 in the W40K universe. Creepy, hard and dark, just as is should be...

    Cons: ...if it wasn't for the piss poor optimization. I run Rise of Tomb Raider, full maxed out on CONSTANT 60 fps almost never droppint below that. Wide open areas, open world, many npc, animals, etc. Deathwing constantly lags and though it looks    Pro: great feeling, could have been the best fps(?) after Space Hulk 2 in the W40K universe. Creepy, hard and dark, just as is should be...

    Cons: ...if it wasn't for the piss poor optimization. I run Rise of Tomb Raider, full maxed out on CONSTANT 60 fps almost never droppint below that. Wide open areas, open world, many npc, animals, etc. Deathwing constantly lags and though it looks good, it should not be remotely that demanding on the rig with its closed spaces and scripted attacks.
    There are also many annoying stuff: the inverted cursor is inverted in the order menu, too :) Is it possible to be that stupid accidentally or you have to do it on purpose? The M opens the map, why cant it close it too? What the beta testers were doing instead of testing? Smoking weed and read the Moby Dick?
    And worst of all, the saving system. Why there is no manual save. I don't want to spend my time doing some 20 mins of progress again. What is the problem? Why make this really good game so hateable? Manual save would not take away any of the challenge. Or put in a Nightmare difficulty for people with a lot of time on their hands. It couldn't be so hard to code it: you have 2 weapons and a few enemy + you position... Like 2 kb.

    It would have been one of my favourites, but like this, it is subpar. A 4.    … Expand
  13. carnivorCactae
    Sep 16, 2019
    4
    How can you enhance a game thats flawed at its core?

    Slooooow movement combined with way too much back-tracking and walking through samey corridors where nothing happens. Aiming is unrelieable at times and highilghts all enemies in bright orange-colours, so its basically cheating. Weapons sound and feel great and powerful, but there are times where you walk around like it was for    How can you enhance a game thats flawed at its core?

    Slooooow movement combined with way too much back-tracking and walking through samey corridors where nothing happens. Aiming is unrelieable at times and highilghts all enemies in bright orange-colours, so its basically cheating.

    Weapons sound and feel great and powerful, but there are times where you walk around like it was for hours where nothing happens and you don't shoot anything.

    But when the fighting starts it feels great at first. You get swarmed and fight for your life, but since you are agile like a brick of wall, you'll get annoyed fast with the slow and seemingly unresponsive controls.

    If you expect something like from the Wh40k-short-movies "Astartes", you can forget about that.
    Here you are walking around like a steam-roller covered in glue and cursing because the short firefights are spread thin.

    Marines voice-actors are very unfitting, Not how you would imagine a big, bulky and hulky fighting-mache would sound like and don't forget a boring as hell tutorial that gets forced down your throat.    … Expand
  14. Saturday
    Feb 16, 2017
    3
    Buy on sale just to have wander around a space hulk. Beyond that avoid like Papa Nurgle.

    + The hulks do look good, lots of nice details -/+ Lore wise some good points but outweighed by non lore points. - Audio. VA is a mixed bag, awful script doesn't help. The guns all sound like stock/placeholder gun sounds. The assault cannon should sound like a GAU-8 Avenger but ends up like a    Buy on sale just to have wander around a space hulk. Beyond that avoid like Papa Nurgle.

    + The hulks do look good, lots of nice details
    -/+ Lore wise some good points but outweighed by non lore points.
    - Audio. VA is a mixed bag, awful script doesn't help.
    The guns all sound like stock/placeholder gun sounds. The assault cannon should sound like a GAU-8 Avenger but ends up like a .22 SAW. Bolters most certainly do not sound like bolters.
    - Gunplay/Recoil affects. Fire a storm bolter and watch as your avatar develops a severe case of parkinsons. A sign of cut corners. Also when rapid firing you end up with a horrid strobe effect. Guns feel as weak as they sound. You certainly do not feel like an Angel of Death.
    - AI dumb as a bunch of rocks.
    - Gameplay. Basic to say the least . Half baked swarm mechanics. Genestealers blindly run down corridors. No real tension , quite repetitive. Weapons are poorly balanced. Relic system wasted opportunity. Too much walking around empty areas or places you have already been too. Silly really as if the were more lore friendly that would be the basis of some solid gameplay.

    Bugs Etc . Somehow my older system got away without glitches but others with more powerful machines seem to suffer many.    … Expand

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#73 Most Discussed PC Game of 2016
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#39 Most Shared PC Game of 2016

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Metascore
58

Mixed or average reviews - based on 46 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 46
  2. Mixed: 37 out of 46
  3. Negative: 5 out of 46
  1. PC PowerPlay
    Mar 21, 2017
    70
    A great game for dedicated fans of the Warhammer 40,000 setting, but a poor narrative and structure may get in the way for casual players. [Issue#259, p.55]
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  2. Worth Playing
    Mar 14, 2017
    60
    Space Hulk: Deathwing can't seem to win on either front. As a solo experience, the gameplay is mediocre, the AI is rather inconsistent, and the objectives lack imagination. As a multiplayer game, it is pretty much dead. There's stuff in here for a dedicated Warhammer 40,000 fan to be excited about, especially how the game looks, but it certainly isn't the best outing for the license.
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  3. games(TM)
    Mar 9, 2017
    40
    A really disappointing waste of the 40K license. [Issue#184, p.84]
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