Necromunda: Hired Gun review | PS4, PS5, PC, Xbox
45Before I start in on Necomunda: Hired Gun, a brief history lesson. Around a hundred years ago, when the world was simpler and safer and everyone sort of got along because Twitter didn’t exist, there was a game released on Xbox 360 and PS3 called Dead to Rights: Retribution. It was a game about a cop with the coppiest name ever, Jack Slate, and his K-9 companion, who went around solving crimes using the Max Payne rulebook (i.e. shoot and/or maul everybody in slow motion bullet time while snarling one-liners and filling in the quiet with grizzled metaphors about cities bleeding, etc).
It was a decent shooter for its time, using the dog to great effect to grab goons by the nuts and generally be the bestest boi on the block. This was kind of what I was expecting from Necromunda: Hired Gun, which sold itself on the premise of a hardcore gun-for-hire plus tricked-out canine companion. I assumed we would be getting a balls-out shooter like Doom Eternal with the added coolness of a doggie companion ready to rip and tear the nards off space-punks on command. Sadly, Hired Gun is not that.
Despite my many complaints, though, Necromunda: Hired Gun is a competent, fun shooter when it all works. It’s fast-paced, loud, and unashamedly grim. The campaign won’t take up more than a dozen hours, and the side-missions (stripped down versions of the former with simpler objectives) will take up a few hours more, but this is no huge and sprawling shooter RPG. If the devs had taken away just a handful of these elements and focused on reducing the jank in the movement and gunplay, this could have been a much more consistently entertaining shooter. As it stands, it’s decent, and fans of W40K will certainly find enough hidden lore and visual nods to get a kick out of it, but anyone just looking for a new FPS to get stuck into might find it wanting.
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