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| Sanctus Reach by Mischief Maker 07/01/2018, 9:09am PDT | ||||
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| What better way to kick back and relax after a day of protesting fascism than with a game of Warhammer 40K? Purge the Xenos!
I'd describe Sanctus Reach as a great game trying to be an okay game. The core rules and gameplay themselves are great, but they're limited by dumb decisions, like a chaos expansion that has you playing the space wolves again instead of all the new demon units. The units themselves look amazing, like plastic models come to life, but their visual pop is diluted by dim lighting meant to echo the planet's overcast atmosphere, the weapon and explosion special effects are atrociously lame, and the soundtrack is nails-on-chalkboard irritatng. They don't even make use of the lore. Unless you go to a wiki you're not going to have any idea what's going on or why characters like the scorched knight are treated as so important, and so on. But underneath all the lame aesthetic choices, this is a great tactical strategy game that's improved significantly since its initial release. Level 1 basic infantry units now start with an appropriate piece of wargear; tactical marines have flak grenades, speeder bikes have spy equipment that can mark enemy targets, etc. Melee units cause area of effect morale damage that encourages even more aggression. But the biggest thing that makes this game great is no unit stays dead in a campaign. If a squad of crazy fuckers with chainsaws flanks the enemy's battle line and lays waste to their artillery before finally dying a glorious death, next mission that squad is back and retains all the XP and new wargear it picked up last mission. This encourages the kind of reckless nutter strategies described in the lore and franky communicated by the silly over the top design of the models themselves. |
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Sanctus Reach by 07/01/2018, 9:09am PDT  Pretending you're part of the White Rose movement in video game reviews NT by 07/01/2018, 10:25am PDT Okay, THAT ONE was funny! NT by 07/01/2018, 10:43am PDT I'd love to continue trading barbs but me and the Kreisau Circle got a NT by 07/01/2018, 12:50pm PDT Having played Gladius, I'm a LOT less forgiving of this game's flaws! by 07/14/2018, 7:12am PDT |
