Warhammer 40,000: Eternal Crusade

Eternal Crusade shows a whole lot of promise as an exciting team-based multiplayer shooter. But ‘promise’ is less than what’s demanded when we’re talking about a game which is released, rather buggy, and not always as intuitive as an action-heavy game should be. At $49.99, it’s hard to justify the investment until the price drops or the game is patched up respectably, but the potential and the fun it offers is real all the same.

Warhammer 40.000: Eternal Crusade could have been a "massive" evolution of the emergent gameplay found in Relic's Space Marine game. We don't understand how it was possible to create a product of inferior quality, compared to a 5 year old game, using a vastly superior graphics engine like UE4, but the Canadian studio actually did it; maybe they tried to bite off more than they could chew.

Once a different idea of what the current game actually is, the biggest fight you'll engage on will be trying to shake off the feeling you're still on a WiP beta test. Eternal Crusade has definitely its good moments but they're too scarce and too scattered for the game to truly deliver.

Mechanicaly identical to Space Marine, Eternal Crusade feels like it should've stayed in the early access stage for a while. It will take a lot of fixing and a hefty price drop until we could recommend this side of the grimdark 40K universe.

Warhammer 40 000 : Eternal Crusade tries to do a lot of things, promised a lot and achieved not so much eventually. Let's hope that developers don't give up on it and maybe we'll be able to play it as a nice disciple of Battlefield in the Warhammer 40k universe.

Warhammer 40,000: Eternal Crusade is just an overpriced lobby shooter. Only the greatest fans of this franchise should purchase this.

While the very foundations of the game may be good, the overall execution is mediocre in all aspects at best. Plagued by netcode and performance issues, it is evident that the title was rushed out the door. The only thing left to do with Warhammer 40K: Eternal Crusade is to hope that Behaviour Interactive can somehow improve it and make it a much more enjoyable experience than what it is now.

It currently doesn't offer the amount of content I’d expect from a $50 game. Balance and optimization issues also complicate the fun, as do missing elements in the shop and unfinished features that all suggest Eternal Crusade was released a bit too soon.

As it stands, Eternal Crusade is far too unpolished to be much fun. [Issue#256, p.55]

The game is an unfinished and sloppy mess. With the majority of balancing and tweaking yet to be done there are some questionable items in the game, such as the previous mentioned shield for the Space Marines which seems to be capable of blocking all projectiles fired towards it. The shooting mechanics are alright but third person cover has always been something I have detested, being able to see over walls whilst hidden behind it often leads to some unfair and one sided gunfights.

Warhammer 40K is a great franchise on paper but has struggled in video gaming, and 'Eternal Crusade' is on the lower end of the spectrum. It has the trappings of a freemium pvp game but asks for $50 just to get in the door. From the shoddy controls to the inscrutable mysteries of equipment, this is one shooter we cannot recommend, even for the most dire of 'Warhammer' fans.

The gameplay needs more polish, better balancing and more finesse and the same goes for the presentation. If or when it gets that it could be a contender, particularly if you love the franchise, but until that happens you might want to stick to something else.

It is the small things which hold it back, which is also the annoying part about it. Why a game that spent so much time in Early Access on Steam, with a rich universe to draw from can be so unpleasant to play is stupendously frustrating. Instead of wanting to play just one more match in the small hours of the morning, I was forced to bear and grin the unjust torment. In defense of Eternal Crusade I really enjoyed playing as different factions and races. It was spectacular to dive into a universe rich with history and tragedy combined with the violent combat I expect from a Warhammer game.

he core shooter mechanic doesn’t feel good. The world map is for show. Game has balance issues.

Warhammer 40k: Eternal Crusade is a missed opportunity and a game that sadly has too many issues to ever completely work out.

The game is a technical and mechanical mess, with unbalanced combat that’s neither intense nor rewarding.

There’s potential here, and a lot of the game’s promise is steeped in maybes and the possibilities that lay behind future updates; right now, Eternal Crusade is an undercooked, bare-bones affair that can, at times, produce a compelling shootout, but on the whole remains a rote and subpar game.

A shooter with bugs, missing features, balancing problems and an ingame-shop using real money.