I think most of you know that a Wh40k mmo is in development, i think there will be years before something will be shown.. What i was curious about, was What type of game will they do? A fps with guildwars type of technology? A wow type game? Or maybe a Tabula Rasa type game? really curious..
Just a short reminder to say that starting today everyone can install and play the multiplayer beta of Dawn of War 2 through steam.
If you need a review of the beta… click here
p.s About the review i must say the intro is unskippable only the first time you watch it, for the rest i must say it’s a pretty honest review… 😆
The beta will be hosted via Steam and offered exclusively to Warhammer® 40,000™: Dawn of War – Soulstorm owners on January 21, followed by a worldwide public release on January 28. The beta will feature all four playable races, five multiplayer maps, and Microsoft’s Games for Windows – LIVE TrueSkill Matchmaking.
Warhammer® 40,000™: Dawn of War® II, developed by THQ’s internal studio, Relic Entertainment, is a Real-time strategy (RTS) game set in the grim, war-ravaged world of Games Workshop’s Warhammer 40,000 science fiction universe. Featuring vicious front-line combat, destructible environments, a fully cooperative multiplayer mode, four unique playable races, and a non-linear single player campaign with branching storylines, Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II delivers the ultimate sci-fi fantasy RTS experience. The game is scheduled for release on February 23, 2009 for Windows PC, and will be available through worldwide retail and online outlets. For more information on Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II, please visit www.dawnofwar2.com.”
Now it’s some time this video is floating around the web, seen that Gears of War 2 is coming sometime soon, i thought was a good idea to show it. Since the first play at Gears of War, especially in some levels it came to me obvious the makers was heavily inspired by imperial guards and the imperium of the wh40k universe, i mean the ‘Gears’ were clearly a heavier version of the imperial guards not to mention the gothic feeling and scenarios, and last all the simbols during the game, now thq is working on the ‘wh40k gears of war’, they could have made this using the Ghost Recon engine also. Well by my point of view it’s good they finally decided to make something like this, consider there are dead space, colonial marines and gow2 coming soon and we can say sci-fi and shooters are coming back in a good way, in the past i really liked the AlienVSPredator franchise and FireWarrior (why they decided you had to control TAU goes behind my guess). This are good news don’t you think?
BONUS: Dawn of Team Fortress 2
A nice official short movie based on the Space Marines Universe created by GamesWorkShop, WarHammer 40k. It tells the story of Space Marine Captain Darius of the Dark Angels and his command squad who join Inquisitor Krieger in solving the mystery of a strange key. Story written by Andy Jones and Tom Lauten.
PLAY part 4 preview clips from “Hive Infestation” and “Blood for the Blood God”
