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Greetings all, I just recently won an auction for Tau Firewarrior for Ps2 and then had to go out and buy a Ps2 just to play it, I forgot I sold mine yrs ago. Anyways, after a week of playing I have come to the final mission and I have to say that it is one of the HARDEST games I have ever played. Did anyone else have trouble with the game in the past, or present? I personally love the game, I think it's a blast! The idea of playing as a Tau originally fighting against the Imperium and then joining forces once the Chaos appeared was an awesome concept. Truly enjoyed so far, but I can't get past the final level due to my impatience and anger getting the best of me. What are your thoughts on the game, compared to other 40k games out there?

P.S.
Does anyone know of any other 40k games in the works?

relic the game company that previously had the game licence to 40k was bought by Sega so we might either see one very soon or not for a long. time

You can read more on the game that is stuck in development hell here.

I had very little trouble with it...

I played few missions but found it too mediocre to continue playing it.

I beat Fire Warrior once, but it was a while ago and I don't remember how hard it was, which by itself means I didn't find it particularly hard. I don't remember much about the game at all, in fact, which means it was probably extremely mediocre.

Well now after reading such derogatory remarks as you folk have made, I find myself even worse off then before. I am currently playing the game on its hardest difficulty, hopefully that will raise my ego a bit ha. But I just get angered due to it being such a slow paced game, me being use to actually playing Halo and the Call of Duty line. I just have no patience. Thanks for the link though Ouze!

Accuracy in Fire Warrior was busted. Las weapons had less range than you or I could throw a tennis ball. Las-bolts just stopped after a certain distance. It was a clunky, difficult and over-all bad game.

The book was better, and the book was silly.

There is a difference between "difficulty" through the game being challenging and "difficulty" with the game being poorly coded with poor game mechanics.

Fire Warrior falls under the latter category. And I hesitate to place Halo on Legendary in the first category, as most of the challenge comes from the enemies simply being beefed up.

Oh yeah, for sure. The game totally lacked in proper workings. Idk how many times I would stand at point blank rage about and shoot my enemy yet it would go right through him and I would get killed by them instead. So frustrating! The game definitely lacked in smoothness, but I still enjoy the story and the idea of playing as a Tau Firewarrior. I know I get rather stoked first time I got to shoot a Rail rife hehe.

The reviews on the game scared me away so I've never even attempted it. As old and underfunded as it was though, I'd agree that the difficultly of the game probably isn't determined solely by skill, but rather how many glitches you can dodge.

Oh, and Dark Millennium is dead. As Vigil hasn't been bought by anyone, its facebook says it's going bust as well.

I however did not read any of the reviews at all. I just recently found out that Firewarrior was an actual 40k game and so I figured I have to give it a shot, even if I'm 10 yrs late. I did find myself dodging and leaping over parts of the FLOOR because I would randomly get stuck on nothing. That's a shame to hear that there Dark Millennium is dead however. Damn...