It is not a bad game, but there are a lot of others like this and I'd recommend those over this; especially when this game costs twice (20 euro) as it should. My primary dislike was just annoying map layout and enemies. Often shooting before you round a corner making certain sections more of a trial and error slog, rather than a display of skill.

Looked great at first but I was too bored to continue playing.

Flat, forgettable, uninteresting, no spice, plays it safe, offers nothing new, it's just more of the same. It does the basic thing all boomer shooters do, nothing else. If you have little time to take off your week to play videogames, I'd recommend you choose something more special than this.

QUICK SUMMARY: Game okay. Secrets fun to find at first but then suck because necessary to progress. Perk system fun at first until realizing you need secrets to get good perks and perk points. Guns are good until you end up stuck using only 2 of them because you didn't find enough upgrades to make them all do enough damage. If you love secret hunting and doom shooters then game great. If you hate backtracking and feeling the need for a guide to progress game bad. Game is fine but not for me. oldschool DOOM style gameplay is solid and weapon variety is nice. There are cool upgrades and mixups to give some build variety without impeding the gunplay, however getting the upgrades is heavily reliant on finding secrets so unless you enjoy backtracking or slowing down and spamming shots or the interact key ALOT then you will struggle to find everything and have to deal with very tanky enemies later. Unless you look up a guide, but that kind of takes away from this style of game. The game...

Dread Templar is a really cool FPS when you look at it. Weapons look cool, the protagonist looks an edgier version of Dante from Devil May Cry, level are decent and have lots of secrets. But man, playing throught this game kind of felt like a slog. The story is almost non-existent. There are little cutscenes explaining the backstory in-between each of the chapters, but outside of that there is no real lore or explanation of what is going on. The levels stitched together mostly randomly with few cool transitions, but in the end they rely on generic portals in-between. The character has no voice lines outside of aforementioned cutscenes. What enemies are and what they represent is handwaved as generic "demons" from the "dread realm'. In terms of story and lore there literally nothing. The graphics are pretty good as far as the PS1/Quake early 3D inspired style goes. Like I mentioned, I really liked how weapons looked. The levels look pretty cool as well, there is a lot of variety ...

If you enjoyed doom eternal, give this a try.

good

I wanted to love this game. I truly wanted to. I saw reviews about it and it seemed fun. Another Quake-like game, which I live. So, it was a natural option for me to purchase. I attempted to play it and... it didn't felt right... Don't get me wrong. The game isn't bad. The game is not buggy or something like. It's just that the gameplay itself is not something I was able to love. The weapons don't have the feeling I was expecting, and the gameplay itself is not what I was expecting. Again. The game is not bad. It just didn't resonate with me. I can recommend the game even with my bad comment because I can see that the game isn't bad. It certainly might have its audience, and I truly wish them the best of luck. Hopefuly they can love it with their souls. Something I was sadly unable to do myself.

This is a good boomer shooter, held back by some minor things imo. Worst offender is that the upgrade system is tied to secrets. What the hell did those Chinese developers smoke, when they made that decision? Sometimes the music is a real banger, but the loops are mostly terrible. And lets not start talking about weapon balance.... Is the bomb launcher useful for anything? Did I miss the point somehow? And whats the point of the bow? I only switched to it when I was out of inferno bullets to snipe the annoying flying monsters. The level pacing is okay, episode 1 and 2 are the best and most of the love and creativity were clearly invested there. Episode 3 and 4 are meh. In episode 5 it seems to become promising again, with the cool backtracking level E5M2 (wonder where they got that idea from :3 *cough* dusk). But thats fine, I am a sucker for that kind of stuff. But E5M3, the last level before the boss... What a disapointment... Ah well. If you are bored and need a good shooter, go...

fun game, fun gun play, many monsters to kill