Today, Streum On Studios revealed Space Hulk: Deathwing on the PlayStation Blog. The game, which is set to release on the PlayStation 4 in 2015, is based on Games Workshop’s classic Space Hulk board game. The game, set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe, runs on Unreal Engine 4 and follows a group of Space Marines as they fight off hordes of alien Genestealers aboard the titular Space Hulk.

Unlike previous Space Hulk games, Deathwing is a first-person shooter. Players take the role of a Space Marine from one of the most feared and respected of the Space Marine Companies: the Deathwing from the Dark Angels Chapter. Players can choose between Terminators (heavy troopers), and Librarians (Space Marines with psychic powers), and gain points that they can spend in one of four talent trees to improve, unlock, and enhance their abilities, weapons, and armor as they search the Space Hulk treasure or lost and ancient technology.

It looks like a cool take on an old formula, and the game does a good job of capturing Warhammer 40,000’s unique art style. We can only hope the gameplay lives up to what has been shown so far.

DayZ shows no signs of slowing, with ArmA II taking the top spot for the second time in three weeks, a regular fixtures at the top end of the charts for nearly two months, the mod-phenomenon just keeps on rolling. Several Warhammer titles also hit the top 10 thanks to a franchise-wide Steam sale.

Here’s the top 10 in full.

1. ArmA II: Combined Operations
2. Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II Complete Pack
3. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Collection 2
4. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
5. Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Future Soldier
6. Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine
7. Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion
8. Max Payne 3
9. Spec Ops: The Line

Source: MCV

Captain Titus and Mira

Picture an entire world that you can only see from a distance.  You can only have limited interactions all from a distance, not seeing what is really going on and what kind of relationships people have with each other.  Not knowing how people react to one another, or how they react toward an Ultramarine.  This has been what the Warhammer 40,000 franchise has been like… until now.  Now you are on the front lines with Warhammer 40k: Space Marine.  You can now see just big a Space Marine is and how detailed the huge armor these high ranking warriors dawn over their human bodies.  Now you have been zoomed in on this huge world or franchise of Warhammer 40k to see what is is like, and that alone is very intriguing as well as interesting.

There are humans, Space Marines or Ultramarines and then there are Orcs and Chaos Warriors which are the equivalent of an evil Space Marine in terms of rank or power.  Space Marines are not even held in the same class as human/civilians, in fact they are practically worshiped as somewhat of a kind of superhero.  These Ultramarines are the Guardians of their world as the bleed, sweat and live all for their rank as a warrior.  There is nothing that matters to a Space Marine other than his duty to serve and protect his world and legacy.  Without a blink of an eye any of these warriors would take on any amount of enemies because that is what they are breed for and that is what they live for.  This is what makes them a Space Marine and it was very interesting to see this type of fearless warrior almost null of all emotion with one thing on their mind.  I have never played a Warhammer 40k, RTS game but I know there is a big difference playing a game where you send a squad of a hundred of them out to battle as oppose to being in the feet of one.  This alone can make it one hell of experience for veterans of the franchise as well as new comers.

Ard Boy Slaughtering

The story is action packed, however lacks a lot of story that would simply make other games amazing.  This surprised as the Warhammer franchise is not limited to games but has many, many books and novels.  Never the less the campaign was thoroughly enjoyable, especially considering there is much you can do in the campaign that you can not do online.  You will have things at you disposal that would not in multiplayer like holding on to multiple weapons and the shear fact you are not ‘a’ class but rather ‘the’ class during single player.  You can tell that developers, Relic realized this right away and it made for an extremely polished and balanced multiplayer.  There has been no patches to fix multiplayer, Relic obviously took the time to separate online and offline to make them two different elements, keeping both parts of the game fun as well as balanced.  In the campaign you have a slew of extra moves and abilities you do not have online, such as gruesome executions you can pull off on stunned enemies which might be one of the best things you would be missing out on, if you were playing a Warhammer RTS.

You take on the role of Captain Titus, in the campaign where the main mission is for him and his squad to be sent to a ‘Forge World’ to take it over as it is strategically well placed location for them to have control over.  First you are up against the ugly green Orcs any veteran to the franchise will know of.  The big surprise is when the Space Marines find themselves up against Chaos warriors on this world, which with out giving away any spoilers would not have normally been possible.  With the plan of attack changed, as it was only though to be an Orc inhabited world things get tougher and tougher for Titus as well as his squad.  Now a battle rages on for control of this place, having to battle Orcs and Chaos Soldiers.  You will even see both of your enemies duking it out a lot in which case you can site back and wait or dive in to a three way battle.  If you are on Hard you might want to hang back, as the Hard difficulty in this game is indeed hard,… very hard.  It all inevitably leads up to one epic boss battle that I will not spoil from here, but the real glory in the game is the battle.

Chaos Lord

The mechanics in the game are slightly unique to any other game and can take a few moments to really get used to it.  Once you do, you are off for some action packed battles where the flow between swing your sword to shooting your gun feels quite natural as you become used to dodging/rolling away only to then activate your Fury (which is charged by killing enemies).  Using Fury makes all your attacks stronger as you gain health and when aiming with a weapon time is then slowed down to make crucial headshots.  Once your Fury bar runs out your back to normal play, where momentum is key to survival as this is not a cover based game.  Using everything at your disposal properly will make you unstoppable.  You can even bull rush, sprinting though enemies, stunning them and sometimes even killing them.  These are all aspects which fun to use but are not a part of the multiplayer at all.

When it comes to multiplayer, the Warhammer 40k franchise is only expanded here.  Customization and challenges are huge aspects of the multiplayer.  You can either play the Space Marine version of Team Deathmatch (Annihilation) or Seize Ground which a ‘Domination’ style game type where there are multiple points on the map that you team must fight for control over.  This is all done while either playing as Space Marines or Chaos Marines with there being 3 different classes to choose from.  There is the ‘Tactical’ class which is kind of an all around in the middle kind of choice, then there is the Assault/Raptor class in which you are equipped with a Jet-pack allowing to land on unsuspecting enemies to slash away at them with this class being the only one with the ability to wield a Sword, Axe, Hammer or if you played the Warhammer 40k: Kill Team arcade game, the Power Sword, which currently is the only way to unlock this weapon.  The final class is your heavy one, which is the Devastator/Havoc class and is made to take a beating as they are slow but pressing the reload button will instead put you in a stationary squatting position to use your heavy gun more powerfully killing enemies with just a few well place bullets.

Multiplayer (Seize Ground)

Now as far as Customization, it is nearly endless and ties in with the challenges as well.  Right away you can pick a Space Marine Chapter/Warband to set your Marines color scheme which there are many of.  From there you can choose to change the entire armors sets color, from primary color to, secondary, to detail or change single armor piece colors.  Before or after you do this, you can also customize what kind of armor you are wearing as you may have an entire armor set unlock (one from completing the game) or you may just have pieces unlocked, but starting off you don’t have much.  This is where the challenges come into play, as you might have to win a certain amount of matches as a Space Marine or get a certain amount of kills as one to unlock an armor set or armor pieces.  There are also challenges for literally anything you can think of.  Just dying 50 times by explosives will complete a challenge giving a boat load of XP as well as unlocking a unique piece of armor.  So as you can see whether you do good or bad there is always something in it for you.  Every Challenge gives you XP, but might not unlock anything.  There also weapon challenges as well, which upon getting a certain amount of kills with a weapon will give you XP and might unlock a new perk for that weapon.

There are also basic perks that are more relevant to your class, which unlock by simply gaining levels.  You can only equip one perk until you reach level 15 which will let you equip a secondary perk.  You can also have either Grenades, Blind Grenades (Blinding Enemy) or Combat Stimulants which give you ‘Temporary damage resistance and increased close-combat damage’, are the last ones worth it?  I gonna go with a no.  There are 41 levels in multiplayer and of course reaching the highest level gets you one bad ass set of armor.  It is not hard to level up in the game though considers there are challenges for dying, getting killstreaks and there are Skill Bonuses for things like getting a headshot, shooting an enemy out of the air, while assisting your team as well as capturing points are all helpful to gain levels.  A total of 11 different guns are available depending on what class you are.

Straight to the chest!

You will see quite a wide range of unique customized players online, giving you new ideas as well as the copy load out option available from the last person that killed you.  You also have a choice of instantly spawning in a ‘somewhat’ safe zone or waiting on a short timer to spawn on one of you team-mates which can be a tough decision and at times even critical.  All in all Warhammer 40k: Space Marine sees its glory in the multiplayer action, along with the free 1 to 4 player co-operative mode they are adding in October promising new weapons and the ability to level up in this mode.  Being able to see the Space Marines battle scars and medals during the single player portion of this third person masterpiece also helps bring the world of Warhammer closer than it has ever been.  The games screams for constant DLC as if would fit quite perfectly in this one of a kind chapter of Warhammer 40,000.

This game was reviewed on the Xbox 360.

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Read our review of the game right here. – 8/10

Welcome to the Warhammer 40k: Space Marine Contest.  The contest is limited to USA and Canada residents only.  1 Grand Prize winner will get the ‘Cover is for the Weak’ Poster, a Magnetic Seal with scroll attached to it, and one of each of the Orc/Space Marine Patches.  1 First Prize winner will get the poster and one of each of the Orc/Space Marine Patches.  Finally 1 Second Prize Winner will get one Orc patch and one Space Marine patch.  In addition other winners will be chosen at random to win either an Orc Patch, Space Marine Patch, Poster or Magnetic seal.

To enter simply post what side you like playing as more in multiplayer and why.  The Space Marines or Chaos.  All winner will be chosen at random and notified once the contest is over.  Contest was made possible by the folks over at THQ as well as the Facebook Official Page hosting a 5 Days of Warhammer Contest as well.  On a side note the Magnetic Seal is the same one included in the Collector’s Edition of Warhammer 40k: Space Marine.

The nice folks over at THQ have made the courtesy of making an un-boxing video of the Collector’s Editions of Warhammer 40k: Space Marine.  Mathew Everett, Space Marine Community Manager (aka THQSledgehammer) shows us the first PC Collector’s Edition to arrive at the THQ.  Warhammer 40k: Space Marine will be out in the US on September 6, 2011 and worldwide by September 9, 2011.

'Exterminatus' Free Co-op DLC Screen

You know what’s fun?  Co-operative play, and a free download has just been announced for Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine for a co-op mode in early October called ‘Exterminatus’.  You will be able to pick you class and go up against tons of enemies that will be ranked on leaderboards and also give experience to level up just like multiplayer.  The best part is that it is FREE though.  Warhammer 40k: Space Marine will be out September 6th for the Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and PC.  Full Press Release below.

AGOURA HILLS, Calif. Sep 2, 2011 – THQ Inc. (NASDAQ: THQI) today announced that a free playable co-op mode, called ‘Exterminatus’ is scheduled to be available to download in early October for its upcoming 3rd Person Action/Shooter, Warhammer® 40,000®: Space Marine®.

Space Marine’s Exterminatus mode pits an elite squad of four Space Marines against hordes of alien enemies in a score based fight to the death. Players can choose the Tactical Marine, Devastator or Assault Marine as well as utilizing any weapons and perks available to those classes.

Each of Exterminatus Mode’s scenarios, ‘Assault on Hab Center Andreas’ and ‘Escape From Kalkys Facility’ feature global leader boards challenging players to better their scores by completing dynamic challenges as well as utilizing score modifiers which increase game difficulty in exchange for additional points.

Experience earned while playing this mode counts towards the game’s multiplayer ranks, allowing players to earn progression in both Co-Op and multiplayer.

Space Marine’s Co-op mode is scheduled to be available for free to all players in early October. Space Marine is scheduled to be available for Xbox 360®video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, Playstation®3 computer entertainment system and Windows PC on September 6th.

About Space Marine

When wave after wave of savage ORKS descend upon the Forge World GRAIA, it is up to humanity’s greatest warriors to win the planet back.

They are SPACE MARINES, genetically modified, encased in hallowed armor, the equivalent of one hundred lesser men. They live only to defend the Imperium, and to slay its enemies in a war that never ends.

CAPTAIN TITUS, along with his comrades LEANDROS and SIDONUS, lead a detachment of these Space Marines onto the Forge World. There, they quickly discover that the fight against the Orks is not all that requires their attention. An Imperial Inquisitor named DROGAN needs help securing an experimental POWER SOURCE, before the Orks do so themselves.

 

About THQ

THQ Inc. (NASDAQ: THQI) is a leading worldwide developer and publisher of interactive entertainment software. The company develops its products for all popular game systems, personal computers, wireless devices and the internet. Headquartered in Los Angeles County, California, THQ sells product through its global network of offices located throughout North America, Europe and Asia Pacific. More information about THQ and its products may be found at www.thq.com. THQ and its logo are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of THQ Inc.

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Here is an interview with the Global Brand Manager at THQ on Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine.  Enjoy much more E3 coverage on the way.  The game will be out September 6th in the U.S. and September 9th in the UK.

Check out the BLOOPER Video here which you can see I am not happy with being that it was not my fault, but I think my face tells it all at the end.

The co-operative Last Stand mode from Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II – Retribution will be released as a standalone downloadable title expected to go live on 20th April.

Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II – Retribution- The Last Standalone will allow new comers to play all of the content available for the Last Stand without the need to own a copy of Retribution or any experience with RTS games. Players who then wish to experience competitive multiplayer or the single player campaign for Dawn of War II – Retribution can then upgrade their product to the full version at reduced price.

Jeff Lydell, Producer of Dawn of War II Retribution commented: “We saw this as a unique opportunity to introduce new players to the Dawn of War franchise as well as expanding the player base for the already popular Last Stand mode.”

Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II – Retribution- The Last Standalone is scheduled to be available to purchase from Steam for $10 on 20th April.

Here is the launch trailer for Warhammer 40,00 Dawn of War 2: Retribution and that is one long ass title for a game. There was a beta for the game that ended on February 24th.  Produced by Relic and Published by THQ, this RTS(Real-time strategy) will be released on March 2st, 2011 for the PC.

THQ have announced that a collector’s edition as well as six individual race packs for its upcoming real time strategy game, Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II – Retribution, are available now for pre-order.

Dawn of War II -RetributionCollector’s Edition will give players access to all of the available bonus wargear for each of the six playable races in the game. It also includes an exclusive poster, six race art cards and a high-quality collector’s box all for $39.99. Gamers in North America can only get the collector’s edition by pre-ordering through THQ.com store. Limited quantities are available.

Fans of a specific race can pledge their allegiance by pre-ordering one of the six available specific race packs for the same $29.99 suggested retail price as the regular version of Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II -Retribution. These race packs are available for electronic distribution and are ONLY available at pre-order stage. Each race pack includes four unique ability and Wargear items that can be used to enhance the single player campaign. The Ork Race Pack is exclusive through STEAM and the Tyranid Race Pack exclusive through THQ.com. The Space Marine, Chaos Space Marine, Eldar and newly announced Imperial Guard race packs are also available for pre-order through THQ.com, STEAM and other electronic distribution partners. After launch, gamers will have the option of purchasing the individual race packs digitally through STEAM for a nominal fee.

Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II – Retribution is scheduled to be released for Windows PC in North America on March 1st, 2011.