Space Hulk: Deathwing

Space paratroopers from the first company of the Order of the Dark Angels The Death Wing is instructed to get aboard the space wanderer Olefrus, recently released from the warp, in the depths of which there is a ship of the Order of the Caliban order, which keeps the secrets of the order from the time of the Heresy of Horus.

The player has access to a single-player campaign consisting of nine levels, which can be held jointly, as well as a cooperative mode for up to four players with five different classes ^{[2] [3]} .

During the single-player campaign, the player will have to alternately play for the apothecary of Naum, the librarian of the Epistolary, and the terminator Varahiyil. Each of them has his own style of play, as events unfold, each of them is able to develop skills in three different ways at the expense of “zeal points ^[4] ” received for completing missions. At the same time, when moving to a new level, all the experience gained is nullified ^[5] . The player has the ability to give commands ("go," "stand," "follow me" and "fly") to his associates ^{[6] [3]} , who can also break open doors and reprogram combat turrets . In case of emergency, a detachment of three space marines can be teleported to an orbital ship for a limited number of times, where it is allowed to restore health and replenish ammunition ^[4] .

Space Marines have access to various weapons (which can jam) and powerful terminator power armor, because of which they are extremely slow and slow. The adversary is the tyranids controlling the wanderer, represented by ordinary gene stealers, gene stealers hybrids, and evolved hybrids ^[4] , each of these species has a particularly dangerous individual (brood lord, psyker hybrid and gene stealer warrior ^{[4] [6] [3]} ).

According to the canon, most of the battles take place in the corridors and various locations of the space wanderer, which leaves its imprint: only one terminator can pass along the corridor, and numerous architectural elements of more open spaces are an ideal place for shelter ^{[3] [6]} .

Each level contains from two to five collectible items, which together will tell the player a separate story and give access to the 3D model of the Space Marine ^[4] .

For multiplayer games, eight game cards are available ^[7] .

The game was developed on the Unreal Engine 4 game engine ^[5] . The script was co-authored by writer Gavin Thorpe, who works for the Games Workshop Black Library publishing division. ^[8] The game was developed by French studios Streum On Studio and Cyanide Studio , Focus Home Interactive made the publisher. The game was released for PC on December 14, 2016, the version for Playstation 4 was released on May 24, 2018.

On May 22, 2018, Enhanced Edition was released for PCs (free) and PS4, in which developers introduced a system for customizing game classes, a number of new enemies, weapons, missions, and corrected the balance, interface and technical problems ^{[8] [9]} .

In August 2018, a free Infested Mines DLC was released, adding: a new game map for single-player and multi-player games, an additional class and mode. Also new types of enemies appeared, representing Chaos ^[7] .

Metacritic's review aggregator score was 58 points based on 46 professional reviews ^[10] .

The journalist of the Russian publication Igromania Konstantin Ivanov gave the game a rating of 7 points out of 10 possible. The advantages he attributed to the atmosphere, a variety of weapons and spectacular battles, the disadvantages - the uniformity of the gameplay, technical problems and a number of inconsistencies between the script and Canon Warhammer 40,000 ^[4] .

Reviewer rating for Riot Pixels Cybersvine is 53%. He noted successful graphics and atmosphere, criticizing the artificial complexity and uniformity of the gameplay ^[2] .

3DNews Daily Digital Digest journalist Alexei Apanasevich rated the game at 6 points. Of the positive aspects, he noted the style and atmosphere of the game series, as well as sound effects, of the shortcomings - the monotony and weak character leveling system ^[5] .

The game was rated "Prohodnyak" by Stopgame employee Stepan Peskov. Loyalty was caused by loyalty to the developers of the canon of Space Hulk and Warhammer 40,000, as well as game design. Elements of tactics and simplicity of battles were criticized ^[6] .

Browser of the Ukrainian site "ITC" Oleg Danilov gave the game 3.5 points. To the positive aspects, he attributed the transmitted atmosphere and the canon of Warhammer 40,000, to the negative - weak artificial intelligence, game optimization and technical problems ^[3]

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