Warhammer 40,000: Darktide

"Warhammer: 40,000: Darktide is one of the most enjoyable games of the year, but it&s;s tremendously rough around the edges."

"One should expect more from the extremely rich Warhammer 40k lore. Darktide has some good ideas but commits the ultimate sin for a game: it becomes boring due to its extreme repetitiveness."

"Warhammer 40,000: Darktide is a solid horde shooter that is otherwise held back by technical issues and weak live-service elements."

"Enjoyably frantic, and gory, Darktide is gratifying to play, but the experience is softened by performance issues and dreadful load times."

"Warhammer 40,000: Darktide is one of those games that oozes fun, no matter how you play it. It lends itself perfectly to all playstyles, and has this natural way of immersing the player in its world. That might be from …"

"Darktide is built on great foundations and I enjoy playing it a lot – especially with friends. There’s a brilliant game buried deep within this Hive World, filled with exciting combat and gruesome enemies in equal measure. However, to properly …"

"Warhammer 40,000 : Darktide offers a very pleasant and fun cooperative multiplayer experience. However, we hope that the bugs (especially on PC) will be solved as soon as possible."

"Much like its endless enemies, Darktide&s;s many small issues add up to a real nuisance - but stupendous atmosphere and vicious action just about prevails."

"One day, Warhammer 40K: Darktide will be a great game. Fatshark, like many developers, has yet to perfect the art of the rough landing. A polished core experience can&s;t overcome woeful performance and blatantly unfinished features, like the (almost) entirely …"

"Darktide is an absolute blast. Its heavyweight blend of melee and gunplay ensure that the flow of frantic runs into the hive city just keep on coming."

"Warhammer 40,000: Darktide is a true successor to Fatshark&s;s previous Vermintide series. If you were afraid the jump from fantasy to 40K would ruin the experience, fear not, it&s;s even better. Darktide feels less linear than the previous takes, the …"

"Warhammer 40,000: Darktide has a solid foundation that just needs more built atop it. Slaughtering legions of Chaos freaks is fun for a while, and the in-game chatter between characters is surprisingly funny to the point I was invested far …"

"With Darktide being more of a live service game, there isn&s;t necessarily an ending to its narrative to speak of. Players will rank up and be treated to short cutscenes reflecting the increase in trust and standing the spaceship&s;s NPCs …"

"The PS5 release of Warhammer 40,000: Darktide essentially acts as a celebration of the game reaching its current state of being one of the best co-op shooters out there."

"Some occasional technical issues and an unwillingness to truly burst out of the norms for the genre keep Darktide from reaching enormous heights, but within the confines it sets for itself, this is about as good as it gets."

"Warhammer 40,000: Darktide finds interesting ways to utilize the PS5 hardware for an intense experience that is highly enjoyable."

"The transition from killing Rats and Chaos Warriors to fighting the Scabs and Dregs couldn&s;t have gone smoother. Warhammer 40k: Darktide adds enough new ideas to differentiate itself from the previous Vermintide games without ostracizing the fans of that franchise."

"Warhammer 40,000: Darktide is a fantastic co-op shooter that occasionally struggles under strain. The human character models don&s;t exactly look great, but the game delivers what matters: strong gameplay and an excellent atmosphere that&s;s a blast to play with friends."

"Performance issues aside, Warhammer 40,000: Darktide&s;s ferocious battles make for some of the most thrilling co-op action in years."

"Warhammer 40,000 Darktide is a title that needs more content and some adjustments. Graphically it is excellent and the play of light and shadow, in particular, make some moments even memorable. However, the balance between the classes is to be …"

"Darktide would have deserved a better score, because the game itself is good, real good. But poor optimization (not entirely justified by the game&s;s looks), far too common game crashes, and a loot economy that cannot help but raise some …"

"Darktide captures the most essential parts of its genre, though it sometimes stumbles when trying to build metagame content on top of that foundation."

"Fans of Vermintide will definitely enjoy Darktide’s slightly more creative approach to character building, and anyone into fast-paced cooperative shooters — lovers of Warhammer 40,000 or not — will have a great time. Best of all, Warhammer 40,000 Darktide has …"

"Warhammer 40K: Darktide on PS5 is superb action game filled with brutal violence and all the tongue-in-cheek dry British humour you expect from the universe."

"Despite the growing pains, Darktide is a solid co-operative action game that’s great for a group of friends to play in spurts. At launch, the experience is limited in progression and variety, but the gameplay is challenging and viscerally satisfying …"

"The developers should be yelled at for giving us an Early Access game disguised as a full release, but their fans are used to it. I have no doubt that, over time, Warhammer 40,000: Darktide will get new content, fixed …"

""As Darktide&s;s levels aren&s;t grouped into acts, it&s;s much harder for Fatshark to tell coherent stories across them""

"Once you get down into the dilapidated yet impressive levels of the Hive and start swinging, Darktide is as great a swarm shooter experience as any, but it needs to improve much of the surrounding infrastructure to make that core …"

"Warhammer 40,000: Darktide has a deeply satisfying core loop, with amazingly faithful art direction and audio. There&s;s a wide variety of optimization and server problems right now however, so the technical side of the experience may vary wildly."

"Though Warhammer 40K: Darktide needs more time to develop, its core gameplay is the best Fatshark has ever created."

"Overall, Warhammer 40000: Darktide is an immersive, fun experience that allows players to shape the game to their playstyle while still challenging them to adapt to the game mechanics. Darktide delivers graphically with RTX on gameplay but is nothing special …"

"I have no doubt that these will be fixed in time but when are WE as gamers/consumers going to stop allowing this to be the norm. I feel like I say this on far too many reviews, fact of the …"

"Warhammer 40k: Darktide is definitely worth buying if you love the franchise, but even then, just barely at the moment, due to being hollow and unstable. Here is to hoping they can fix it up so that it can be …"