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PS2 | Action | Warhammer 40,000: Fire Warrior

Boxart for Warhammer 40,000: Fire Warrior
Warhammer 40,000: Fire Warrior 9 screen shots
  • GRAPHICS: 3.0
  • SOUND: 4.0
  • CONTROL: 4.5
  • FUN FACTOR 3.0
  • AVG USER SCORE 3.0
  • AVG CRITIC SCORE 3.4

Review: Warhammer 40,000: Fire Warrior

Review by SIMONLIMON | 11/17/2003 | 13:16:47 PM PST

It is the 41st Century?and there is only war. The future sounds like fun, huh?

For a time, every upcoming first-person shooter for the PS2 was a hopeful ?Halo killer.? Unfortunately, most of these titles fell below the bar that Halo set for console shooters. The upshot of all this is that failing to mimic a masterpiece usually results in a decent failure. That?s pretty much how Warhammer 40,000: Fire Warrior turned out.

Based on the popular tabletop RPG, Fire Warrior puts you inside the helmet of a Tau warrior destined to fight against an oppressive human empire hell-bent on consuming the growing Tau race. The single-player campaign immerses you instantly, throwing you into a chaotic rescue mission with nothing but your commander?s radio instructions and a feeble regenerating shield. Throughout 21 missions, a mix of scripted and unscripted events add a genuine feeling of futuristic strife. Sadly, efforts made to envelop you in Warhammer?s medieval yet technological world are undone by sending you hunting for the blue door?s blue key?only to reveal a red door with a similar keyless predicament. It?s fair to say that most gamers prefer to have their goals disguised as something less obtuse.

Fire Warrior features online play and split-screen support for four players, but there?s no visual cue to indicate if you?re actually hitting an enemy. With only four maps, the multiplayer perk is short-lived. Overall, Warhammer is a decent game with graphics and gameplay that would have been much more impressive had it been released alongside older PS2 titles like Red Faction or TimeSplitters.