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Warhammer 40,000 Fire Warrior (PC)

by THQ
Platform:   Windows NT / 98 / 2000 / Me / XP
2.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)

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  • Platform:   Windows NT / 98 / 2000 / Me / XP
  • BBFC Rating: Parental Guidance
  • Media: Video Game
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Product Features

  • First-person shooter set in a foreboding futuristic universe
  • Creepy horror atmosphere enriched with shocks and scares
  • Unique storyline, chronicling a single day in the life of the main character
  • A twisted cast of characters
  • Voiceovers from Tom Baker and Brian Blessed
  • 15 unique and deadly weapons, 17 diverse levels
  • Single-and multi-player offline modes; up to 8 players online

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  • ASIN: B00009W164
  • Release Date: 3 Oct 2003
  • Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 4,580 in PC & Video Games (See Bestsellers in PC & Video Games)

Product Description

Product Description

Warhammer 40,000: Fire Warrior is a first-person shooter set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe. Set over the course of a day, the game allows the player to take on the role of Kais, a young Fire Warrior. Kais is part of a team selected to rescue the Ethereal Ko'vash, who has been kidnapped by Imperial Forces. What starts out as a routine mission posing no real threat quickly descends into a symphony of horror and torment. Kais' mission takes him through intense trench warfare on a battle-ravaged planet to boarding action against his own orbiting ship. Fire Warrior features 17 exciting and diverse levels, 22 exotic characters to battle against and 16 devastating weapons to experience. The game also features four-player multi-player action with unique environments and a chance to play the enemies faced in the single-player game.

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars My PC is not a game console! It can do more!, 30 Dec 2003
By A Customer
I quite agree that this game is meant specifically for Warhammer 40k players only. If you are not a 40k player you will most probably not appreciate the atmosphere or storyline that has been set in this game.

This is vital to enjoying the game since it uses graphics and sounds from a time before the Pentium. Being a 40k player myself this does not bother me one bit. When you are standing one on one with a space marine you soon learn to respect their mighty boltgun and power armour! The idea of handling one of the weapons you have only seen as a miniature up until now is what this game is all about.

Then why only two stars? Well, let me start with a minor irritation. Every mission is not only made extremely obvious but the obvious is also stated again and again. The sentence "You need a key for this door" echoes trough the speakers whenever specifically coloured bars deny you access to an area. Or the words "You need to set a charge" when standing before a red outlined figure of where the charge is supposed to go.

The major irritation however is the game console style of progression. By this I mean that you are unable to save the game at any point. In stead it is saved automatically after each level. So if you are unable to finish the level when you quit playing (yes, I do have a life besides gaming), you will have to start all over again the next time. This is only a partial setback when you "die" in the game. In this case you are set back to a safe point. But when you end the game before ending the level you will have to start all over again!

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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Total disappointment, 10 Feb 2004
Ok, so I'd heard very good reviews about the PS2 version of this game and thought the PC version would, naturally, be even better. I rushed to buy if yesterday and was deeply annoyed.

I used to play Warhammer 40,000 when I was a (young) teen so I am not really up-to-date with the Tau but thought a FPS in the Warhammer world would be amazing. It just seems like this game was incredibly dated even before it was released. The graphics are dreary and, at best, mediocre. With competition from the likes of original licenses such as XIII and (the upcoming) Doom III, you almost feel sorry for Firewarrior. It simply cannot compete with the aforementioned.

The collision detection is plain awful (you seem to fire volley upon volley of shots just to kill your average 'grunt'). The pace is fast but dull and almost every detail is pretty uninspiring. There’s no depth…you run; shoot; pick up a key; run; kill some guys; run; jump…errrrr…and run again. There’s no level in-game music apart from tedious sound effects which adds very little to the atmosphere. The annoying thing is that I had also to spend almost 2 hours (!!) downloading new patches and graphic card drivers simply because the game wouldn't support mine. This could also affect similar users.

Another reviewer has said that this game isn't strictly meant for non-Warhammer players...but, if that's the case; why release it?! Fobbing people off with the excuse "not for everyone, but Warhammer fans will love it" is terrible in my eyes. I seriously doubt that Games Workshop would have released this game exclusively for Warhammer players. If this game had been made properly and was enjoyable it would have appealed to practically anyone; no matter what their bias – player or not! A great theme; definitely...but a good game; certainly not.

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13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Warhammer 40,000 fans only, 6 May 2004
The merits of this game for me, are not be based upon it's rating as a game. For those of you who have no knowledge of the Warhammer 40,000 universe I believe you will find this game mediocre or maybe even poor. For those Warhammer 40,000 fans I think, there will be some mixed apples.

I personally really enjoyed this game, but that enjoyment lay in the fact that the rich background and fiction of the Warhammer 40k universe was paramount to the feel of the game. The game takes many small items of background (known so commonly to tabletop gamers as fluff)and integrates them well enough to give an all round 40k feel. Simple things such as the size of a bolter in the small Kais' hands, the effectiveness of each weapon against different targets (trying taking down a space marine with an autogun and he'll just laugh at you), and the equipment of the different enemies. Perhaps the one part of the game which is a little "unfluffy" is at the beginning where you as Kais use a pulse rifle to bring down an Imperial Marauder.

Another thing is knowing the 40k universe changed my experience of the game. I remember steeping out to be confronted with the first space marine. Knowing exactly what a space marine is (a genetically engineered superhuman warrior, wearing the some of finest armour available to the imperium of man, armed with terrifyingly deadly weapons and trained just as much to match ~these guys could kill 100 men with their bare hands, in below zero temperatures, after not eating for days, with one arm tied behind their back *for those of you who haven't played warhammer 40k) really did strike the fear of the God Emperor into me! Laying my hands on my first plasma gun had me strutting around thinking HA bring it on! Running out of ammo and being forced to charge a unit of the imperiums crack elite stormtroopers with the Talissera bonding knife raised my stress level somewhat.

In summary I think those who play the tabletop, and really like all the rich and interesting fluff, will love to see it rendered in good graphics of firewarrior. For those who don't play, I would suggest avoiding the game, the graphics are good but not shockingly lavish, the AI suffers as with many a first person shooter, and having not played the tabletop and not read up on the ample background you will find yourself being unable to relate, and unimpressed with being confronted with a terminator, you wont have the initial fear of being in a room as a dreadnought lumbers round to target you with what you know to be a missile launcher, you wont get excited when you get your hands on a rail rifle, to the extent to which fan of the tabletop will. Therefore I deem the game a 40k fan only (and those who don't have anytime for the fluff should probably avoid as well) One last final note, the experience was multipled for me by the narrator being the voice acting talent of.......Tom Baker! (a former Doctor Who to you heathens out there!)

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