Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun 2 understands the primal joy of pixelated carnage. I've been playing two levels from the upcoming FPS sequel, and I'm not sure I could have stopped playing if I wanted to. There's a rhythmic compulsion to sending cultists to their doom by shooting the ice beneath them, and the click-click-click of hitmarkers – particularly while melting hordes of demons with a flamer – is trancelike.
All of this happens at 1000 miles per hour, as I'm playing Boltgun 2's new protagonist. Battle Sister Nyra Veyrath is quicker and nimbler than the first game's Malum Caedo (although you can choose to play as either), better-suited to sliding and leaping around battlefields than charging through them, and relies on a completely different set of weapons to get the job done.
