Warhammer 40,000: Fire Warrior (Classic)

Strongly do not recommend. The beginning and middle of the game are really simple, if a bit slow, fun but the last third against chaos is pure agony. Checkpoints are placed way too far apart and fights as well as the transition between them are drawn out to an unbearable degree while you fight the same three enemies ad nauseam. For illustration: You walk into an obvious arena. Nothing spawns yet. You go to the exit of the room. The exit is then blocked, not by a barrier mind you, but by a zone of instant death, sending you back to the last checkpoint if you even try to smell it. You turn around and wait for enemies to spawn. You fight said enemies after a while. You wait. A second wave spawns shortly after defeating the first. You fight them as well. You wait. The barrier of instant death disappears. You go through to the next room. Repeat. If you want to "see what old warhammer games were like" like I did, just watch a walkthrough on Youtube.

W40K: Fire Warrior was a great game back in 2003, but its really disappointing to see its to reappearing with all the classic bugs and error. The mouse acceleration make the game almost impossibly to play and to make it worse, then we also have bad crosshairs and poor hitbox location. This game is not worth to spent either money or time on. Pros: - Short campaign Cons: - Extremely bad optimized - Key config are horrible mapped - Bad performance - Graphics glitches and bugs - Terrible Enemies AI - Multiplayer non existent - Easy boss fights

This is one historical piece of ♥♥♥♥

It's quiet.

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.

My god does this game not hold up. Clunky, hardly any music, slow, terrible graphics, trash enemy AI, uninspired sfx... when you realize this game came out two years AFTER Halo, these feel like a lazy arcade shooter.

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 has everything a warhmmer fan would love i had no idea this existed but im so glad i found it on steam and was able to play it 10/10 this game is so peak warhammer and being able to see from the tau's perspective is awesome this is such a good game!!!

Fire Warrior came out in 2003. Back then you could have been playing Halo: Combat Evolved, the first Call of Duty, Warcraft III, Knights of the Old Republic... Fire Warrior, even for the year it was released, is an objectively outdated, clunky and janky game. The controls feel floaty, the enemy AI is incredibly simplistic, enemy variety is limited. Challenge is very artificial, mostly coming from the second half of the game being filled with enemies that can teleport, play dead, 2 shot the player, or require several minutes of sustained fire to kill. Despite this, I had a lot of fun with the game, up until the final three levels. It's extremely rare to see a Warhammer game with a non-human perspective, let alone a Tau one. The novelty of that, and the presentation of the setting, are what carries it. The game ran perfectly fine for me. It is patched to run on modern systems. There's the slight annoyance of all the controls needing to be configured through a launcher. It has windowed borderless, and never crashed for me or had any hiccups. If you are a Warhammer fan and especially a Tau fan, there are much worse buys than $7.49 for 6-8 hours of being Tau doom guy. Just go in there expecting a kind of bad but charming game running on the fumes of passion for its setting, and you might have fun like I did.

I'm about half way through the game, and I see why this has a mixed review score. Don't get me wrong it's not the worse game out there, however I feel like it fails at the game play level to truly stand out. The good: 1. You are a Tau: It's really neat getting to see a different faction's pov in the Warhammer universe (even if I'm unfamiliar with the lore). 2. Environments: So far they seem fairly interesting. :) The bad: Most other elements of this game suck like: 1. Ai: This game's friendly and hostile ai sucks. If both sides are present they tend to end up kissing each other opposed to actually fighting. The ai generally is dumb, typically just bomb rushing and standing in front of you, the main challenge they pose is damage and even then sometimes they can't land a single shot. Certain enemy spawns are bs like on the tau ship when a whole space marine chapter just decides to spawn all at once on the bridge. They suck to fight, and fight with. 2. The feel: This game hasn't aged very well, the sensitivity feels awful (I believe it's mouse acceleration), movement doesn't feel super nice even compared to Half-Life, F.E.A.R, etc, and overall is annoying. 3. Bugs: This game is fairly buggy, the most noticeable is the inconsistent character volume, it randomly decides to be quiet. 4. Check point system: It sucks, and can reset you a fair bit if you die. Conclusion: Generally not very good, might be worth 1 playthrough if you pick it up on a sale but it really just sucks, and I feel like it could be so much better with a proper reimagining.