
Once in, Warhammer: Chaosbane allows players to go at it alone, locally with friends or join up with up to four folks online to smash their way through the forces of Chaos – so far, so Warhammer then. Once you’ve chosen your hero from a selection of half a dozen monster mashers that include Dwarven Slayers, High Elf Wizards and more besides you can get cracking on with, well, cracking (Chaos) skulls. The additional content that the Slayer Edition provides is not quite enough to move the needle.Īs it is, Warhammer: Chaosbane is a perfectly serviceable, if unsurprising and relatively unambitious action RPG which manages to scratch that Diablo itch well enough but doesn’t succeed in doing much beyond that. Moreover, the new Witch Hunter class will give returning players a reason to sink their teeth back into the title, and newcomers will learn the game has countless hours of replayability despite its repetitive nature.Warhammer: Chaosbane is a decently entertaining, if unambitious dungeon crawler.


Where the enhanced version shines, however, is in the beautiful aesthetics, silky frame rates, and expedient load times on PS5. Prepared for the new console generation, Warhammer: Chaosbane Slayer Edition delivers the same dungeon-crawling experience on a gameplay level. For example, an area-of-effect (AoE) attack with the pistols where the Witch Hunter pirouettes while firing at enemies in all directions becomes a cone-shaped AoE attack with the rapier. Switching from pistols to rapier also changes the way certain class abilities perform. While not as agile as the Elf Scout or technologically adept as the Dwarf Engineer, Chaosbane’s Witch Hunter does bring versatility to the table through its proficiency at both ranged and melee combat.

Players who purchase the Slayer Edition will also be given access to all the game’s DLC, including the Tomb Kings expansion and the new Witch Hunter character class, the latter of which sees players switching between dual-wielding pistols and a rapier.
