Overlooking popular favourites like the Necron and Tau, THQ has instead opted to reveal peripheral species “The Imperium Of Man”.
Strange choice. Who’d want to play as Space Marines in a Warhammer 40K game?
Overlooking popular favourites like the Necron and Tau, THQ has instead opted to reveal peripheral species “The Imperium Of Man”.
Strange choice. Who’d want to play as Space Marines in a Warhammer 40K game?
Travis New
Saturday, August 21, 2010 at 3:53 PMTrailer was awesome but I didn’t like the voice over. I like the voices from DOW1&2 for how Zealous they sound when speaking of the Imperium! And I think that is how it should be and is in all books. Any speech and word any action out of turn from the Imperium is HERESY!
Luke
Saturday, August 21, 2010 at 3:58 PMHeres hoping it doesnt suck. Cant wait.
Steven Bogos
Saturday, August 21, 2010 at 4:02 PMProbably the closest thing we’ll get to playing Starcraft II online…
Steven Bogos
Saturday, August 21, 2010 at 4:03 PMBy that I mean a Starcraft MMO
Grim
Saturday, August 21, 2010 at 6:10 PMDon’t underestimate the ability of Activision Blizzard to milk an IP. It could still happen. En’taro Tassadar!
weresmurf
Saturday, August 21, 2010 at 6:46 PMIndeed. When I heard Blizzard are working on a brand new IP for an mmo? My immediate thought? ‘Ooooh so its a new IP of Starcraft???’ Brand new IP my ass…
Mr Waffle
Saturday, August 21, 2010 at 7:10 PMGood: WARHOUND TITAN YESSSSSSSSSSSS
Bad: Not sure I’m a fan of the cartoony-ness. I’d prefer more dark and gritty.
Ugly: THE BOLTERS ARE EJECTING SHELL CASINGS. BOLT ROUNDS ARE CASELESS FFFFF. (Yes I know the official art depicts it occasionally, and GW have admitted that it’s poetic licence. Space Marine doesn’t appear to feature them though)
warcroft
Saturday, August 21, 2010 at 8:02 PMCartoony-ness graphics, like World of Warcraft, is more friendly to older PC’s.
Dark and gritty needs more detail and textures.
Cartoony dark and gritty ends up looking horrible.
Stefan
Saturday, August 21, 2010 at 11:43 PMyeah and just to add, if you have more realistic models the more likely they will look stupid. On the other hand if you do realistic models properly ala crysis they can look feckn awesome but take up heaps of system resources. Cartoony allows you to have lower system reqs and keep it looking half decent
Gunslinger
Saturday, August 21, 2010 at 11:41 PM@Mr Waffle: The bolters -used- to be caseless, canon-wise Marines ‘personalise’ their bolters with a primer charge, as without it the projectiles were not lethal at close range.
The other thing is, what do you mean by ‘gritty’? A coat of grime and battledamage, or some stereotypical lashings of gunmetal gray and dogshit brown?
Fem Grey
Saturday, August 21, 2010 at 11:44 PMI expect better voice acting from the 40k franchise. Looks interesting though.
Dire Wolf
Sunday, August 22, 2010 at 1:56 AMIt’s unlikely but I really hope Tyranids are playable.
DKnight1000
Sunday, August 22, 2010 at 2:25 AMOut of all the MMO’s coming out I think this one interest’s me the most.
Simply because how does it work? Can I hoon around on my Marine bike almost everywhere with twin machine guns blazing? Can I become a Dreadnought? Will a “Party” consist of a Sergeant (tank) Medic, and some special weapons marines?
Chuloopa
Sunday, August 22, 2010 at 11:06 AMlooking good, but i too am somewhat worried about the cartoony appearance… but that would be mainly because im not used to it in a 40k game…
Strand0410
Sunday, August 22, 2010 at 11:34 AMWhy do I think that the Warhammer 40k MMO is going to have 90%+ of the population rolling Space Marines on day one. WoW had this sort of gross imbalance early on too (a LOT of Alliance/Hunters), but I think the faction imbalance will be even worse here.
matt
Monday, August 23, 2010 at 8:23 PMIs it just me, or does the game-play videos look like game-play from Dawn of War II…!?