Warhammer 40,000: Fire Warrior (Classic)

Fun game. Sucks that this is the only Tau anything I've ever heard of. Nothing really out there for 40K fans that are tired of humans.

Such a nostalgia trip, brought me back to early 2000's, comparing this game to modern titles is simply unfair, For the the Emperor!

Even as a T'au fanboy it's really hard to find anything good to say about this game. Some positives: it's mercifully short. 45 minutes of my playtime is leaving the game on when I went to the store. Missions can end very quickly. I think I died maybe a total of 5 times? A few times to Marines, and once because I jumped off an edge to see if that was the way I was supposed to go. The set pieces are interesting, for it's era. The real disappointment is that the game is not even bad, it's just not good. It's really very meh. It's easy to see why this game got trashed so hard when it came 2 years after Halo and just a year before Half Life 2 and Killzone. Two weapon limit with, in all honesty, no interesting weapons. No interesting mechanics to speak of. A constant barrage of KAIS SECURE THAT BURGER KING objectives. They could have had you piloting a battlesuit but inexplicably made you the strongest Fire Warrior to ever live. My own personal gripe with the game is that if you're playing this game you probably have some interest in the T'au, but the majority of the game is spent in Imperial environments, using Imperial weaponry, as they do try to realistically feed you T'au ammunition at the beginning and middle sections of the game. They give up on this at the end though when they just start littering each level with T'au corpses and guns so you never have to switch to your side arm. The beginning of the game I primarily used a lasgun and for the middle sections a bolt rifle, switching only to my T'au weaponry to fire grenades into the face of marines. While these weapons are cool, and it's nice to have the choice, I'm here for the T'au stuff. It doesn't deserve a no though, but it really doesn't deserve a yes. Another instance where I wish steam would let me give it a meh. It was okay enough that I finished it. I would not purchase it though. Fortunately my friend got it for me as a gift. Sucker.

Definitely not a good game, I've had a weird fixation on it though both as a child and sort of recently. I like the tau, they're neat, but they do not save this from being miserable lol.

Not only is mouse acceleration a baked-in part of the game, it is some of the most extreme mouse acceleration you've ever seen

This is one historical piece of ♥♥♥♥

This game sucks, but I would kill for sequel, even of similar quality. It offers such a unique perspective away from Imperium centered stories, and I would love games like this for other factions. If you don't have a tolerance for old, janky games, then maybe you should give this game a pass, but its a fascinating novelty. One legitimately positive thing I can say about this game is that the Guardsmen you fight aren't Cadians, which is something we will never see again. The novelization is good at least.

It's quiet.