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2/5
Banhammered for Being Chaos-Bland
Chris Kavan - wrote on 02/12/2025
While I am a big fan of the hack n slash RPG genre, trying to find a decent one to match the master Diablo series has been a challenge. Every now and then we find something surprising - like the Van Helsing game - but most other times we mercilessly slog through games like Titan Quest or Torchlight III. Most games in this genre fall short and even with a Warhammer backing, Chaosbane must join the ranks of the underwhelming.
Looks and Stuff: For a game that actually changes your appearance based on what armor you wear, it fails to celebrate this by having a camera that pans so far out that any change is lost in the distance. This also means that even with some fairly good creature designs you get little detail in the chaotic, muddled battles throughout the levels. It also doesn't help …
Rating of
2/5
BORE-hammer: Chaos-BANAL
Nelson Schneider - wrote on 07/20/2024
Outside of Dungeons & Dragons, Warhammer is one of the oldest, biggest, and longest-running tabletop gaming IPs out there. Unlike D&D, however, Warhammer has never had much in the way of a cRPG presence, probably because the IP is, at its core, a Wargame. While there have been continuous efforts for decades to launch Role-Playing, Skirmish, and other smaller-scale tabletop spinoffs, Warhammer as an IP has remained staunchly entrenched in Wargaming, successfully maintaining both Dark High Fantasy and Dark Space Opera settings which offer slight variations and twists on each other’s established tropes.
Oddly enough, while tabletop Warhammer remains a dyed-in-the-wool Wargame, computerized conversions of the IP tend to be all over the place and rarely remain true to the source …
