Necromunda: Hired Gun

But Why ThoJake Yoder

40/10

Necromunda: Hired Gun comes this close to being a good game. It takes heavy inspiration from one of the best FPS games on the market, but with an uninteresting narrative, clunky graphics, uneven performance, and a litany of undercooked ideas. Necromunda: Hired Gun is hard to recommend, even at its budget price tag. You might find yourself having fun from time to time with it, but those moments are simply too short to recommend putting up with the rest of the game.

Sirus GamingErickson Melchor

8/10

When the issues of a game are rolled and stomped by its greatness, then it’s something to invest on if you have some spare.

XboxEraJesse 'Doncabesa' Norris

7/10

If I were reviewing this game on multiple platforms it would be a nightmare as it’s obvious that PC was the lead platform by a mile. There is a lot of potential and if a good amount of time has passed since release I’d suggest you look up the patches that have come out along with the discourse online to see if things have been fixed. As it is now this is a broken mess of a game, and I can’t in good conscience recommend it to anyone on Xbox or Playstation consoles. I really hope they fix it up though because I’d love another run-through with a properly working version of this game.

Impulse GamerAbdul Saad

Necromunda: Hired Gun is perhaps the most average game I've played this year. It's a game that has many issues to work out, yet one that was fun to play

GamingTrendDevo Deaves

60/100

Some good warhammer 40k vibes can be found here but there’s just a bit too much going on in Necromunda: Hired Gun. The fast-paced FPS gameplay needs refining and is constantly slowed down by the RPG elements which in turn are not allowed to shine through the FPS aspect. I actually think this setting would lend itself more to a Skyrim style RPG more so than a first person shooter but this is what we got and I am actually a bit gutted that I can’t like it more than I do.

MP1STJames Lara

6/10

Necromunda Hired Gun has a wonderful setting that every 40K fan will undoubtedly adore. But outside of that, unless you are a really hardcore 40K fan, Hired Gun is a really tough sell, at least on console. Too many performance issues, followed with bugs and inconsistent textures make this one experience you may want to skip on, which sadly is a bummer, because the gameplay itself is rather quite fun when it works. You’ll likely find the PC version is be far superior, but for you console players out there I would highly suggest you wait for a substantial performance and bug patch to come out. T...

Attack of the FanboyBrandon Adams

Necromunda: Hired Gun does have redeeming qualities. The movement is great, the gunplay feels good, and the environmental design is stellar. There's simply a legion of issues on both the design and technical fronts working overtime to hold it back. If you are willing to overlook Hired Gun's many problems and massive amounts of jank you'll likely have a great time blasting gangers to bloody bits. But, I won't fault you for waiting on a sale or sequel instead.

WCCFtechNathan Birch

5/10

Games Workshop has found success with an impressively wide range of video game genres, and yet, there’s never really been a great first-person-shooter set in the Warhammer universe. A bit odd considering the franchise’s obsession with giant guns! Enter Necromunda: Hired Gun, the latest effort from Streum On Studio, who previously tried (and largely failed) to do the Warhammer shooter thing with 2016’s Space Hulk: Deathwing.

WellPlayedKieran Stockton

4.5/10

Necromunda: Hired Gun features a stunning art direction, but with a garbled story and more technical and design blemishes than you can poke a space stick at, this one's bound to be buried in the under-hive.

The OuterHavenKyle Simcox

When Necromunda: Hired Gun first launched at the end of May, things looked pretty dismal for the fast-paced, first-person shooter. The game was plagued by a number of performance issues, quickly earning the game a bad rap with the community. Since then, however, the game has been patched by developer…

WayTooManyGamesLeo Faria

4/10

Can you feel massively disappointed and betrayed with a game you knew nothing about prior to playing? I thought this wasn’t possible, but Necromunda: Hired Gun proved me wrong. In theory, this Warhammer 40,000 title had everything to become one of my favorite games of the year: a meathead first-person shooter featuring the ultraviolence, heavy metal, and glory kills from Doom, coupled with the wall-hopping mechanics from Titanfall. It sounds like a dream come true, but my god, this is one o...

Analog Stick GamingJeff Young

Unscored

Necromunda: Hired Gun is often a joyful bit of chaos, zipping around the battlefield, moving from encounter to encounter that it reminded me about my time with Doom Eternal, a game that is clearly its inspiration. While the story and its characters are always second fiddle to its action, there is st