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Rating of
3/5
More Like Vermin-Grind
Chris Kavan - wrote on 02/14/2018
The Melted Joystick crew is always looking for the next, great multiplayer game. Sometimes we land on one that surprises us, sometimes we grind through games that were best left alone. Vermintide, is the latter, a game set in the vast Warhammer universe that plays like a first person hack n slash but requires patience, skill and teamwork - and, let's face it, our crew just don't have time for that.
Presentation: Welcome to the drab, brown world of Vermintide. Yes, the game's visuals are just fine - nice detail, the enemies are varied, as are the player characters - but the world itself is just a depressing morass of destruction, dead bodies and treasure chests that, more often than not, are empty - much like the soul of this game. Crumbling castle, dripping sewers, vacant catacombs - …
Rating of
2/5
Holy Shitman!
Nelson Schneider - wrote on 01/19/2018
The cumbersomely-entitled “Warhammer: End Times – Vermintide” (“Vermintide”) is a team-based First-Person Shooter Combat game by Fatshark, the same Swedish development team that came up with the ill-conceived “Krater.” Based on the venerable and internationally-known Warhammer Fantasy universe of tabletop wargames and RPGs by the U.K.’s Games Workshop, Fatshark had plenty of extant material to work with, yet ultimately delivered a shallow, unpalatable experience.
Presentation
Because the Warhammer Fantasy universe started the whole Dark Fantasy fad, and has only continued to double-down on bleakness, despair, and decay with each passing revision (at the time of writing, the tabletop game is currently in its 8th Edition since 1983), “Vermintide’s” visuals embody …
