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Mordheim: City of the Damned
Mordheim: City of the Damned is the first video game adaptation of Games Workshop's cult classic tabletop game Mordheim. Set in the Warhammer World's decimated Empire city, Mordheim: City of the Damned is a turn-based tactical game where you lead warbands into bloody and lethal skirmishes. The game blends RPG elements, fast-paced tactical combat an...
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Mordheim: City of the Damned is a superbly well-crafted game that fully achieves what it sets out to do. The best, and most quotable, comparison I can make to sum it up would be XCOM by way of Dark Souls. It’s satisfying to play and it’ll give you wonderful stories with hours of gameplay. What more can you ask for? Now if you excuse me, I’m going to try and work up the nerve to take Squeekums and co into an online match.
Based on a classic, but bringing new features and perspectives to the table, Mordheim: City of the Damned provides a challenge, with some interesting party and game management thrown in. I am not a fan of the wonky overhead map, and sometimes feel cheated in battle, but the over-the-shoulder camera is a pleasure. The end game of trying to keep in your benefactor's good graces, regardless of the outcome of each battle, and the variety among the factions, make for a good game that invites you to have another go—even after it leaves you bloodied in some nameless alley in the City of the Damned.
Reminiscent of the classic Mordheim board game, take control of your warband in this turn-based RPG where you battle throughout the city streets in search of power, glory, loot, and the extremely valuable Wyrdstone fragments. The comet may have brought destruction, but it influenced even more chaos in the aftermath. Everything you need to know about the game can be found right here!
I like Mordheim more than I should. The game is a turn based grind-fest with a tacked on story mode, yet I keep firing it back up to play just one more mission.
But if you were hoping for a new squad-based game with the finesse of XCOM, or the many tactical choices of Jagged Alliance 2, this is not it. Mordheim is dumb. Mordheim is flawed. Mordheim tries hard and doesn’t succeed. This is not a happy Christmas, everyone, but the misshapen horror of Faschnat. It’s your present from Krampus.
Before sitting down with Mordheim: City of the Damned, I had no idea it was connected to Warhammer. The original tabletop game, from way back in 1999, was designed as a new take on Games Workshop’s wargame giant, moving the player from commanding an army to managing a single unit of soldiers, referred to as a warband. Mordheim: City of the Damned faithfully adapts this Warhammer variant into a hardcore strategy game for PC and now PS4 and Xbox One.