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  • Summary: Enter the Chaos-infested Caligari Sector and purge the unclean with the most powerful agents of the Imperium of Man. Warhammer 40,000: Inquisitor – Martyr is a grim Action-RPG featuring multiple classes of the Inquisition who will carry out the Emperor’ will in the darkest reaches of theEnter the Chaos-infested Caligari Sector and purge the unclean with the most powerful agents of the Imperium of Man. Warhammer 40,000: Inquisitor – Martyr is a grim Action-RPG featuring multiple classes of the Inquisition who will carry out the Emperor’ will in the darkest reaches of the Imperium! Expand

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  1. Positive: 10 out of 28
  2. Negative: 0 out of 28
  1. Jun 4, 2018
    80
    Warhammer 40K Inquisitor Martyr has fantastic gameplay that's complimented by great combat and missions. There are a few bugs and framerate problems, but the skills tied to weapon mechanics add a brilliant way to switch up combat until you find your set.
  2. Jun 26, 2018
    76
    Far from being a perfect product, Warhammer 40.000: Inquisitor - Martyr is however a versatile and enjoyable title both by fans of the genre and, above all, by lovers of the boundless background of reference.
  3. Jul 6, 2018
    75
    Νeocore uses all of its accumulated experience -gained from the Van Helsing franchise- and delivers a complete action/ RPG, faithful to the source material and accompanied by a tight storyline. Not all of the gameplay ideas were implemented successfully (i.e. the cover system), but genuinely tries to gust fresh air in an already over-saturated genre.
  4. Jul 19, 2018
    70
    Warhammer 40,000: Inquisitor – Martyr is mostly a good title that comes with some innovative ideas, but falls short in other areas regarding its performance and level design. Warhammer 40k fans will get a kick out of it, and its long life through random missions means content is in hundreds of hours for people who enjoy working towards the highest achievements. Others will eventually grow bored of the repetition, but will easily have gained enough hours out of the title to not be short changed.
  5. Jun 15, 2018
    65
    Neocore offers a fascinating story based on the universe of Warhammer 40,000, but wastes his chance with a heavily imperfect technical system.
  6. Nov 5, 2018
    60
    The ever-increasing level requirements force players to grind. These side missions are all too similar in their look and design. Varied, exciting combat could have been the game’s saving grace, but, alas, it leaves a lot to be desired.
  7. Jul 3, 2018
    56
    Though the idea of a Warhammer 40K themed ARPG certainly seems appealing, Martyr largely fails to capitalize on this potential due to unfocused design, clumsy gameplay and an abundance of technical and performance issues, despite boasting strong audio-visual presentation.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 20 out of 41
  2. Negative: 18 out of 41
  1. Jun 7, 2018
    10
    The best Warhammer 40k game I've ever had a chance to play in. The amazing atmosphere, the well-reproduced world of W40k, Endgame is a mustThe best Warhammer 40k game I've ever had a chance to play in. The amazing atmosphere, the well-reproduced world of W40k, Endgame is a must for W40k fans, Expand
  2. Jun 8, 2018
    10
    A wonderful 40k experience. Great graphics, great atmosphere, the story is actually engaging, and the game is well made with depth ofA wonderful 40k experience. Great graphics, great atmosphere, the story is actually engaging, and the game is well made with depth of character development. The dialogue can be a bit goofy at times and combat a bit slow with big HP enemies but those instances are few and far between. Would give it a 9/10 but need to compensate for the people that give it 0/10's for minor things. Expand
  3. Jan 15, 2023
    9
    Big fan of action RPGs and I very much wonder how this was rated so low at the time. It's definitely up there.

    Gameplay is fun with very
    Big fan of action RPGs and I very much wonder how this was rated so low at the time. It's definitely up there.

    Gameplay is fun with very different characters, weapons and skills, the graphics look great with a very distinct style and it seems to get most of the convenience things right that other games don't. Stash tabs and sort function, basic loot filter, quick sell, detailed explanation of mechanics (additive/multiplicative bonuses etc.) and generally a very clean UI for all the content it has.
    There is a somewhat useless cover system that you can simply ignore. The suppression mechanic to shield from status effects on the other hand is very useful and I wouldn't be surprised to see it implemented in similar games.

    Item hunting can be a bit of a pain, because there are too many item drops and sorting/selling/salvaging them out takes quite some time when you're not familiar with what to keep. It would be better if unlocked stats could be put on items instead or if there simply were less relic drops.
    Ancient relic stats are unlocked by ingame challenges. Nice concept, but again, there are too many of them, it forces you to constantly change your build and most of them are not really useful in the end.

    The advantage of the 40k universe is that it actually offers a decent story with a lot of interesting background if you want to get into it. It's still very straight forward monster killing, but with a reasonable explanation behind it.

    With the game being on sale on Steam, this was certainly one of the best deals I've made and a better purchase than the recent Diablo iterations for sure.
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  4. Jun 10, 2018
    7
    I was excited when I heard about this game but after playing it for a bit and watching streams, I can tell you what bothers me.

    First of
    I was excited when I heard about this game but after playing it for a bit and watching streams, I can tell you what bothers me.

    First of all, the combat is really slow and dull. Like, it's more dynamic if you play the assassin, but the assassin is squishy is you're pretty much forced to keep moving and uses dodging abilities, which in turn is not that relaxing.

    Weapons don't feel impactful on their target. Feels like you're hitting a sandbag with a foam sword, until it explodes for some reason.

    The AI is dumb as dirt. I know action rpgs aren't known for having any sort of competent AI that would use tactics and cover instead of just swarming the player with huge numbers, but in this game the AI is even dumber than that, often times it even "forgets" where it was supposed to go.

    The graphics engine seems to have some sort of limitations. Like, for example, mobs that are some distance away from the player, have fewer animation frames than the ones that are closer, and it looks terrible, like the enemies at long range move in slow-mo or something. This may be a valid design to help with potato computers, but I don't bust my ass to buy an expensive computer and then play games that are designed for potatoes and don't use all the resources available.

    Only great things are the atmosphere and the scenery. Hell, if this wasn't a WH40k game, and just some random action rpg, I would drop 1 point from the score.

    Overall, this game is slightly above average and only really appealing to WH40k fans. Everyone else will find it a 6/10: AVERAGE!

    I was considering giving it a 0, just to counter balance those 10/10 ratings. I mean seriously, guys?! This is a 10/10 game?! You are making the gaming industry worse for all of us if you give such high scores to average games.
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  5. Oct 12, 2019
    4
    Really good since update. Still some screen tearing on PS4 pro but other than that really enjoying it :)
  6. Jun 22, 2018
    1
    Currently the game is a mess. They have already launched it after several months of beta and weeks on delay over the oficial date just toCurrently the game is a mess. They have already launched it after several months of beta and weeks on delay over the oficial date just to release a broken game without any end game content, several broken mechanics, graphical and game breaking bugs, and the worse balancing seen in years.

    The key points:
    - Open world and Persistent: To put it easy, it's just a plain lie. The game is neither open word (no more than Path of Exile) nor persistent it's a pure blatant lie.
    - Graphics: Graphics are ok but the performance is atrocious. With a 7700k at 5Ghz and a 1080 i get framedrops to the 10th fps level and in ocasions the game plays like a powerpoint.
    - Content: Game leght is 10h if you dont count grind as content, the history is regular (not very good but at least have a wh40k feeling) but it's too short and you are just releyed to repeat the same missions again and again and again in a grindfest of 50h-100h depending on the class to reach the end game level. All the content is just plain grind, for example first even was just kill 5000 mobs, not more not less..
    - Mechanics: Half the mechanics are just wrong or not working at all, for example cover is just a mimic (is a lot more safer just shoot the enemy that take cover and then shoot), the "Open World" are just the same small maps (2 min leght to clean them, with veeeery minor variations) that repeat each time till you could make them with the eyes closed, they dont are even remotely random.
    - Loot: You have a loot driven game that have a mechanic that force you to replace your items with new and inferior ones or have a damage done and damage receive penalties (in the order of 200% or 80% damage done penaltie to make a full 20% damage), i could not even think what the hell the developers where thinking.
    - End Game: Simple, Don't exist at the moment.
    - Class balancing: Don't exist at the moment, after months of beta, they didnt have time to balance the classes. A good 20%-40% of perks are not working properly.
    - Grind: It's only what exist at the moment, you need to run 10 basic missions to have the curency to run an "advanced" (Tarot) missions, one mission is 1/20 in xp of a Tarot or main quest mission, and you only have quest misions to reach lv20 of the 50 levels. And as they dont have any end game currently they have even increased the grind from lauch to have the people grind more and need more time to reach the non existing end game.
    Also, the dificulty is non existing, they match dificulty with repeat the same again and again till your eyes bleed.Of the hundreds of missions done to reach lv50 i think that iv'e failed maybe one and just because i was not paying attention and doing the level mechanically.
    - Coop or Pvp is unplayable due lag.
    - You need online connection not to play the game, just because the developers use it as a cheap anti-piracy. You could even continue playing a mission after the server goes down and dont crash till you end the mission and the game tried to store the mission rewards.
    - The game is full of cheaters, cheat is as easy (or at least was) as editing the game resource files, not to talk of more "complex" cheats of trainers and memory editting. If the missions the game never makes any calculations on the server (it dont even need the conection to the server) and is all made client side. You could have a player with several thousand of kills less than an hour after an event goes online.
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  7. Mar 23, 2023
    0
    Wanted to try this game out, unfortunately it put me on a "You need a Neocore account" screen that i couldn't click out of or close. CompleteWanted to try this game out, unfortunately it put me on a "You need a Neocore account" screen that i couldn't click out of or close. Complete waste of time, so i just uninstalled it. A terrible first time user experience, just let me play and put the register option somewhere on the main menu for players to do later if they want. Expand

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