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More than I expected.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: July 08, 2006
Author: Amazon User

When I turned this on I was a little bit disapointted in the first few missions but later on it gets far more exciting. The weapon types are interesting and the sounds are great. I would reccomend this to anyone who plays warhammer 40,000. (Which is a table-top game). Ufortunately it is ruined by the first few missions you play.

By the Way the last person to review doesen't know what he's talking about cause the enemies on the first 33 levels are space marines.

worth a rental

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: February 21, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Warhammer Fire Warrior is just worth a rental. Just like many fps shooter out there, the replay value is not very long, unless you play through the whole campaign on a harder setting. Well in contrast there isn't any replay value what so ever.

I was given the game from my friend because he was selling his Playstation 2. I was somewhat excited because it Warhammer, but i knew that it would never be halo. The opening cut scene look so cool and i started to wonder maybe it isn't all that bad. Little did i know that it was the only above par in the whole game. The opening scene was very cool, but sadly the game doesn't even look anything as good as the scene. You start off the game with a average training to say the least. There nothing new here, nothing that haven't been done by halo or any other fps. Well halo wasn't actually that good. In fact the training didn't even tell you how to use your sword, you would have to look it up in your manual. Well in my opinion, training mission aren't really important, what really important is the fun factor.

Now moving on, the game start off as you are in a tau dropship. You have a few tau soldier on board(around 4 or 5)and an instructor that tell you how many second is left before landing.
The ship is pretty cool in it own right. Once you land the al bots actually get out of the ship before you can even start, which is ridiculous. Now you can really see the battlefield for the first time and say wow. Sadly your al bots really suck because their armor is so weak. The enemy al are a lot smarter that your own. The game start off as you begin to fight enemy in a narrow corridor sort of like the trench in WWI. It actually better than a non linear path because it harder to get lost. In fact i would laugh at you if you couldn't find your way around. That is just a figure of speech showing how easy the pathfinding is. Along the way you meet up with a few other tau warrior (not as many as call of duty) which feel less intense but as you could guess, they die so fast you wonder why do they even fight. after you kill some enemy (space marine) you enter building which you have to kill the space marine sargent (the one with the navy hat and a chainshaw) and to my surprise you can't pick up the chainshaw because once he die, his body quickly disappear. One of the thing i like about this game is there is only three keys and you can find them whenever you kill a sargent. Another thing is like halo 2 where you have a recharge shield, once your in a heat of battle, quickly retreat and wait till your shield is up and continue the battle, which is better than not having one. Another thing is the health pickup seem to be everywhere which is easier for a less intense battle. Now what sort of bother me is the death animation of the enemy and your own is pretty lame, not only does the enemy die slowly, but often time you find yourselve wasting 20 to 30 bullet and then found out they are already hit after the 6 bullet. And sometime when you think their dead, they are actually just crouching. Another bad point about this game is the space marine take too many bullet to bring them down, fortunately you have a lot of bullet in your weapon. Another strong point in the game is that you can only carry a primary and a secondary weapon only just like halo. Some might argue that this is a bad thing but your primary weapons can't be swap for another weapon, only your secondary weapon can be swap. Which make sense considering that this is the tau main firepower (hense the name fire warrior). The gun themselve doesn't justify themselve. What i mean is the different gun in the game doesn't really differ themselve from one another. You might be surprise but throughout the course of the game i use the same secondary weapon throughout each mission. Another not so hot point of the game is no matter what gun you decided to pick up, you can still kill load of enemy. Here an example, the two gun that you use in your training mission actually fire the same bullet with the same rate of fire, and the secondary fire is the same just a more rapid fire rate. This is really a shame considering that this game could have been so much more.

Now after you found the key, kill all hostile forces, and unlock door, you face an enemy gunship. It took me a couple of time to defeat the gunship. The secret is that you have to shoot the fan on both side of the gunship before it can be destroy. After you have destroy the gunship your dropship approach at your extraction point. Go up to the door and it will open for you, then turn right and turn another right, and go up the stair and turn right and you will see your dropship ( remind me of halo) and enter it, your first mission is a success. Depending how well you do in the mission, you gain point or ranks.

Sadly there is no cut scene after you finish your first mission, and you find yourselve in the same familar spot. The same, plain boring dark, desert like spot ( think of mars). Your second mission require you to find the key, kill the enemy, and unlock door (doesn't this sound familar?). The whole game is actually like the first two mission. It get really repetitve after a short time. The only reason i play this game was because i wanted to see what the ending was like, which i won't spoil the fun for you.

The tank for the enemy in the game is pretty awesome when you first saw it jump over a huge gap above your head and stand in awe. Sadly their is not that much vehicle in the game. A huge downer was the fact that the game take one day throughout the mission so basically everything is the same. It would have been a whole lot better if you could fight in different environment and as different races. Fire warrior isn't the borinest game but it isn't the funnest either. The sound of your instructure sound too human and don't fit it profile as a tau. One thing that i thought they should add was tau and human civilian and drivable vehicle. The game has more con than pro that it overshawdow all hopes of a good game.

In short it only worth a rental and just that. Don't waste your money on this game even if it is only 20 bucks.

P.S. I am 17 and didn't feel it was important to write my email.

ever since i played this game it is awesome

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 12
Date: August 21, 2005
Author: Amazon User

if i were to rate this i would give it 100 stars

Pretty cool!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 10
Date: December 26, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I love Warhammer and have been collecting an army for 4 years, so when this came out I knew I had to buy it. The combat is pretty cool, and there is a lot of shooting and grenade throwing. I have to admit the AI isn't all that smart, but they make up for it with LOTS of soldiers. You have a few allies sometimes, but they usually die within a few minutes and I always like having a few guys tag along with me. The graphics are kind of blotchy, something you would expect from a playstation 1 or an N64. I think if Americans had made this they could have made it a good bit better. It's still a good game and I would recomend it to anyone who wants a fun, cheap FPS.

Get Dawn of War instead

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 9
Date: December 13, 2004
Author: Amazon User

First of all, aaargh, this game is just plain boring. Im lucky i only rented it because if i bought it would have been a complete waste of money. The graphics aren't good, the fun you get out of it is extremely limited, and it will do you more good spending your money on a stupid cuddly toy. Personally, i would buy Dawn of War instead. It has better graphics, it's based on warhammer 40k more than Fire Warrior(if you're a 40k fan), you can choose from orks, eldar, space marines and chaos, you can paint your own armies, zoom in to one gretchin's massive nose or his gun which is over half as big as him, or tell your force commander to call an orbital bombardment and the game is just pure fun. The best thing is that all units have unique finishing moves eg. a dreadnought picks up an ork, squishes the life out of him and hurls him into the distance

close

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 12
Date: November 11, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I'm going to be short.
1) the game is fun.
2) grphics arnt bad but just not good.
3) story is just fine but not to engaging.
4) the game takes a sort of feird turn tword the end.
5) the game is chalenging.
6) wepon veriety is good.
In short if you realy want a fps get killzone. If you dont like the realizm of killzone get this game.

I don't know much but this game is all right.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 4
Date: October 15, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Well I've played HALO and the graphics are fiar but the soildeiers are supposed to have the same uniforms! I mean what would war be if you didn't know who's on your side or not. Seriously trying to remeber that Bob's blue and andy's purple that the medic is pink I'mean come on!

I like the title says I don't know much but this game is all right. My freind (who owns HALO and pre ordered HALO2)is a tech maniac putting it lightly and fills me in on all lot of graphics mumbo-Jumbo and according to him the didn't even tape much of the PS2 power.

As for the controls they could be better but hey if you are dissing the people who made this try it yourself. I have a copy of Blitz Basic which is a beginers try at game designed trust me there's alot more to it than typing numbers.You have to do practicly pages of math just to do somethin like Alien Attack which was state of the art back way back when.

Now I'm a thirteen year old go ahead and pass over me now if you wish but gaming is about all my freinds and I talk about from codes to the latest flight simulater (which were all crazy about flying). So this game is pretty good for my standards but keeping the dissing about the desiners of this game to a minamal.

Its warhammer

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: July 06, 2004
Author: Amazon User

First, im not 12. If i was 12, i wouldn't be allowed to play this game because it is rated M.

I rented this game, and im glad. This game is good but not that good. I thought the graphics of this game were good (I dont know why you people relate it to Halo and SOCOM!!!!). I have never played Halo so i wouldn't know what it is like. But of course Fire Warrior is not going to be like Halo! If you play warhammer 40k alot then you probably will like this game.

If you read the other reviews, some will say that the characters all look the same. I play warhammer (not to much though, too much money) and all the models are supposed to look kind of the same. That is what warhammer is. all the space marines and the imperium have similar colored uniforms. They are supposed too.

But, I only rented the game and didnt get very far into it. I did think that it was a bit hard. Also you people who say that it could use more guns... warhammer has a wide arsenal of futuristic weapons, but each race has a... I geuss you could call it, a main weapon. Okay. Not many guns. But does SOCOM have many guns too. SOCOM II sure doesnt. I own SOCOM II and i dont like it. To much like Splinter Cell. Those two games i just mentioned dont have a wide aray of weapons either. Fire Warrior had more weapons in the first level than SOCOM II or Splinter Cell had throughout the game.

I probably wouldnt buy this game, but you might want to rent it if you like and play warhammer alot.
I still cant get over the fact that you people related it to Halo. What the hell! Of course its no Halo.

This was terrible.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: April 22, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Frankly, anybody that says this game is "HALO for PS2", is delerious. This game was bad. Not good, not even mediocre. It was terrible.

The graphics and textures were grainy, bland, and sported far less detail than the PS2 is able to crank out. The controls were unreponsive, the weapons themselves were extremely inaccurate, the enemies were idiots, and the game's design and gameplay was linear to the point of obnoxiousness. You spend most of the game running down narrow corridors, fighting enemies hiding behind bits of cover, hunting for a key to open a door with. The multiplayer mode had a paltry few small, poorly rendered maps. There was no variety in the enemies in the game, and very little variety in the weapons.

This game was substandard even judging by other FPS games that this same company has made. THQ also made Red Faction II, which was light-years beyond this in quality. Timesplitters 2 is light years beyond this. SOCOM is far superior to this. Even the PS2 port of QUAKE III is better in terms of action and level design and graphics quality.

In general, it felt like this game was simply unfinished, and that no effort at all was put forth into making it. It could have been much, much better without pushing the envelope of what the PS2 can do. This game was simply a product that was rushed out the door without any revision or tweaking. I would not recommend it to anyone. Get Red Faction II instead.

Not bad

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: February 09, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Fire Warrior isn't the best FPS on PS2, but it surely isn't the worst. However, don't expect it to be the HALO for PS2. First off, FW has a decent load of gameplay in it for a shooter. Some shooters i've played are incredible...then they end in 2 or 3 hours. You can expect to get 9+ hours on the story mode. And for all you lucky boys and girls with broadband, the online function will keep you entertained for a while as well. The graphics, while not mind-blowing, aren't too bad either. The sound is also very clear and crisp. One thing I actually liked in this game was that it was quite difficult. Even on easy mode you'll be in for a good challenge. So in the end, if your looking for an all-around FPS, this is a good buy.

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