Rob Covell

First is the unique (for the subgenre anyway) Slime mechanic. This works a lot like a meter in many fighting games, most notably recent Mortal Kombat releases, with you building it up by hitting and being hit. Depending on how much Slime…

Luckily, the weapons are fun to use and can dispatch most opponents in just a few shots. The pistols are solid enough options, and your shotgun will destroy those annoying knights in a single blast with a little luck. I found myself leaning…

Larger confrontations are more interesting, with you having options like clapping and bowing in the correct combination to banish your foe, or perhaps using an ally to distract them. I appreciated these more as they put a thrilling…

Mechanically, this is very simple to play, with there actually being quite limited interaction. I could see some people arguing that this is a walking simulator, a term that I’m not a fan of, but there’s a certain element of puzzle solving…

You can end up with a fleet of ships to hop in and out of when you head to home base, or you can sell them to get a new model. They feel quite different too, with powerful, armoured Vindicators being quite sluggish when compared to the…

The campaigns are split into a number of missions in which you need to spread a certain amount of fear within each region of a map, amongst other objectives, allowing you to spread your message. The idea is that your protagonist — or…

The first thing you notice upon starting the game, and the thing that immediately attracted me to it, is just how awesome it looks. That 50s movie style is incredibly well done and permeates every element of the game. The cutscenes are…

Most of the units you can play with here are already present in the incursion mode that was added to the base game some time ago, with only the somewhat underwhelming for the points cost Daemon Prince being a new unit. Even with that, there…