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Meet your new favourite shotgun in this Warhammer boomer shooter

When you get right down to it, is there really any difference between Warhammer 40,000 and Doom? Permanently angry space marines, giant guns, sci-fi installations being invaded by demons from literal Hell… basically all the same, innit? Really, it’s a wonder no one’s made a Warhammer boomer shooter before now. 

Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun (opens in new tab) keeps things gloriously simple. After a charmingly unsettling opening cutscene, the preview build just drops me on a planet full of Chaos cultists with a chainsword and a dream, and tells me to have at it. Immediately I’m racing around the map sending up pixelated sprays of blood, finding guns that would be banned under the Geneva Convention, and slotting comically large keys into control panels to open doors to places full of even more horrible enemies.

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It’s an absolute blast. The guns—in this set of levels including a boltgun, a shotgun, and a plasma gun—are chunky and superbly satisfying, and the game makes sure you’ve always got more targets to use them on. The shotgun in particular is a new all-timer for me, taking enemies apart in booming blasts worthy of an Ultramarine. The maps are simple and built to be raced through, but full of secrets and power ups for curious explorers to uncover. It’s fast, simple, gorey fun that couldn’t feel more appropriate to the heavy metal world of Warhammer. The fact that it has a dedicated ‘yell at the enemy that you’re going to kill them’ button really sums up its vibe. 

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