Apparently, there's some "leaked" footage of a third-person Warhammer 40K shooter floating around the internets. The game, with the awfully generic subtitle of "Space Marine," appears to be a mix of Gears of War and God of War. The voice-over that accompanies the video, which Eurogamer guesses belongs a developer, explains that the game is focused on brutal, close-quarters combat.
We've contacted THQ, which holds the video game license to the Warhammer 40K universe, to see if it can shed some of the Emperor's light on this topic. While we're not exactly sure about the video's authenticity, it certainly has had some nice work put into it. Find it after the break.
I second his jubilant response, and retort with even more "YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!1!!". This kind of game is LONG overdue.
And now, a WH40K Wishlist (if the rumor is true): - Multiple Space Marine Chapters to play as - Personalized SM Chapter creation/modding for clans - Though it could be done via episodic content, it would be nice to see all of the Species (Tyranids, Tau, Orks, Eldar, Chaos, etc.) - DREADNOUGHTS!
Funny, I'd say it looks more like GoW than gears. The environments definitely feel like GoW as they are a lot larger and stuff and there's more going on in the background, just like in GoW. Feels like GoW with shooting to me.
Anyway, I see potential, but it's also very, very rough around the edges. The combat isn't fluid at all and the animation looks aweful in some places (like timing and connecting).
Saw this footage the other day; the 'cinemaction' parts or whatever they were called look really annoying, goes into a little 5 second death cutscene for every enemy..
That's why I'm worried. not the scenes, but the immensely stupid nicknames they're trying to give all of these already done features. I'm thinking this is a new development group who doesn't know spit about games.
It's like tenchu with all the stealth kills. *Shrug* Or GoW with the chainsaw kills. *Shrug* Or a few other games with similar "cinemaction moments". why harsh on this game?
If they can manage to pull them off like Assassin's creed then i will absolutly love this game. Assassins was the best single player game iv played in years and years and alot of it was to do with the visceral feeling in those little moments, it made the combat fun instead of just "hit the guy and he goes down with a red patch on his chest.
If they do it well it will be great and not annoying, we just have to hope they dont rush it out of development...
Lookin' good. And I'm loving how they've managed to nail the 40K universe. Everything feels so accurate: the size of the Space Marines compared to normal humans, the insignias, the space ship's designs, the architecture, everything. It's great.
The only thing I don't really like is the way the stunned enemies stand there and wobble around a bit. It looks like a Mortal Kombat game (and in a bad way).
I guess I just don't like the idea of 'stunning' your opponent at all. It always seems so fake. I can't imagine someone just standing there for five plus seconds whilst their life is in severe danger.
It just reminded me of what Gears of War managed to so successfully do that other shooters seem to fail at, giving characters weight. Nothing worse than seeing supposedly huge characters spin around instantly with crappy animation. Looked pretty terrible to me gameplay wise, especially with the "cinemaction" rubbish but the visuals were amazing outside.
This looks amazing. I really want to hear some official word on the existence of this game before I get my hopes up though.
I am a huge sucker for third person action games and 40k in general. I do really like the focus of this game though I do hope they add a little more ability of fight at range (I play Ultramarines table-top and part of the strength of marines is that they can be really focused on ranged combat or melee. They're very versatile) and I hope they work on integrating those killing-blow cinamatics a little better.
A slow-mo death sequence is all well and good, but if it happens on every single guy you kill it kind of stops being cool and special.
I'm also worried about focusing too much on melee combat. His bolter seems like a bb gun. And the other big concern I have is... 40K is all about squads, where's this guy's squad? The silly "fists of the north star-punch the guy where I tell you to" minigame and slo-mo finishing moves implies that co-op is out of the question. Not impossible, unlikely.
I have high hopes. I love Warhammer 40K, and I think it's a great idea to try something new. Art direction looks good. Just some gameplay mechanics have me worried.
I like the look of it. It's obviously a bit rough around the edges, and needs some work on the animation and definitely needs more of the death sequences and melee attacks (like the dude said there would be). However, the thought of a whole game of this sounds really good, especially if they implement some more of the in depth lore - I'm thinking plasma pistols, melta bombs, power fists, terminator armour. Oh, and ewnemies other than Chaos. Orcs and 'nids specifically. I'll be keeping an eye out for this, because this doesn't look like a fake or fan-made.
They did say it was their first build....But yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
When I was a kid I had a dream of a 3rd person 40k game. And this practically does it. I have been waiting years for this. Really great again for a first build though. They can can do alot of great stuff with it.
But developers seem to really want to catch the feel for the Warhammer world...and they have seem to read alot of the literature. The Hero fighting hand to hand and the brutality of it all.
It does look really cool, much more of an up close mellee game than a shooter which I think is good. They should focus on that. So if they get that right it will be amazing. Really need to link those combos and add crunch. Also see the start of the swing before the death scene cut comes in, it was a little disconnected. Also none of this backing off two steps after downing an enemy and standing there, that looked odd.
There needs to be a plausible reason why he's running around on his own though. I'm all for plausibility.
I assume they'll be set pieces like a dreadnought storming by, bursting out of a wall, or a squad of Terminators, mini guns blazing, if only briefly. Or a tank battle in the back ground.
With out making it a squad game the character should meet up with 'a' squad at some point charging into battle together even if they then all die. They're not called brothers for nothing.
Nice concept, but poor execution. The camera cutting is TERRIBLE; jumping to an up-close shot is OK, because you don't have direct character control during the close-up, but cutting directly back is horribly jarring for successfully taking back control of your character. Combat looks very slow and clunky. Lots of slowly rotating on the spot, enemies sit back and wait for you to attack, or have slow and obvious wind-ups before attacking, ranged weaponry looks poorly implemented (watch how his arm always jumps to level and fires no matter where the actual target is).
Yes, this is an early build, but as it stands it looks like they have a LOT of work to do to make it into an enjoyable game.
Ugh, I inderstand they want a melee focus, but making the guns so weak is ridiculous. The guy is standing around while being shot at, and is in no danger at all. If the guns are so weak, just throw them away.
WH40k has never had weak guns, so I think this is a poor choice. They should make the guns powerful, but make ammo limited so you go into melee when you can, to save ammo (or when you run out of ammo).
I just imagined this as a game featuring the Eldar, allowing you to choose between the aspect warriors. Want to be a striking scorpion, howling banshee, fire dragon, warp spider or dire avenger? That would be pretty freakin awesome.
