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Warhammer 40K at its best.

As the Game was on Sale during Ubisoft Publisher Week, me and 2 friends decided to get it.
First off we were a bit anxious because of all the bad reviews. But hey, since we only wanted it to play coop and it was just 3.74€, let's give it a try.

At First we had some issues creating a coop party (connection failed blah blah).
Since there seem to be a lot of people having these issues there was a ton of threads on the forums, but with no working solution in them.

We tracked the problem down and disabled the hamachi network client - and it worked completely well.
I hope that this might help some people here hating the ♥♥♥♥ out of this (pretty solid) game.

A few words on the gameplay:
Yes - it has nothing to do with the good old Ghost Recon games. It is pretty easy, but has some good intentions towards tactics and coordinated teamplay. The story is not bad, similiar to a COD or BF, so there's nothing new to surprise you.

I couldn't recognize any bugs or performance issues. Surely it's no graphical master peace but not as bad as some people say here. The Levels are linear (like COD/BF) but very atmospheric. Textures and damage models are nice to look at and the overall gameplay feels very smooth. I see a lot of people saying that it's a "bad console port". Yeah, in the menu it really feels like a console, but the gameplay itself is good and the 3rd person view suits the game very well. Also the controls are absolutly normal and in no way confusing(W, A, S, D to move, Q for orders, E for use, F for special equipment and 1-6 for weapons+attachements, right mouse for aiming and middle mouse for aiming down sights)
and the covering system is well thought.

As i bought the game simply for the coop i can't say anything to the multiplayer.
But as far as I experienced the game i cannot agree with all the haters around here.

The Coop works and that pretty good. None of us had any performance issues, crashes or bugs.
And the gameplay, controls, graphics and story are solid. No "WTF WOW" game, but overall a good, fun game to play with friends for a few hours. Also has some replayability since there are some challenges which are not that easy to achieve.

Features like the Gunsmith are pretty amazing. The synced shot on mulitple targets adds some tactical component and the stealth/covering system are also very well designed.