I went into Warmonger expecting a pretty basic shooter that shows off the use of NVidia's PhysX technology for destructible environments. Thats pretty much what I got.
Warmonger isn't a bad game, in fact for the price its pretty good, it's just that it's not that deep. It's a basic arena based shooter with five weapons, seven maps and two game modes, Team Deathmatch and Capture and Hold. The maps are pretty simmilar in looks and the level design isn't that good. Again like most of this game it's not bad it just isn't good. The extent to which you can destroy the environment varies between maps with one map having an area in which some rooms can be completely destroyed while other maps simply have tiles you can shoot off walls. The destructible environments do work quite well though and although they don't look very impressive some of the best moments are when you find yourself and your enemy emptying hundreds of bullets into the area around you and watching the scenery get destroyed. Sadly that won't happen much as multiplayer games are pretty much non-existent and the included bot support aren't that intelligent or challenging.
That doesn't stop it from being fun though. The most of the weapons work well, even if they don't sound all that great, and the levels are interesting enough to keep you playing for a while.
As I said earlier this isn't a bad game. The best thing about it though is that it's free. However it does require that you have a NVidia PhysX enabled graphics card to run so don't bother downloading it if you don't. It can be downloaded as part of a pack to show of various NVidia technology from here although you don't have to download all of it.
7/10- Not the best game in the world but will keep you ocupied for a while provided you have a compatible graphics card.
Download link-Remember: only download if you have a PhysX enabled graphics card and don't feel you have to download everything on the list. Alone its about 500mb however its about 3gigs with all the other stuff you can download.
http://www.nvidia.com/content/graphicsplus/us/download.asp
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