Man, I’ve been waiting for this since the [white label] demo four years ago. Can’t believe it’s almost finally here. AND it had an updated demo all this time?! I know what I’m doing tonight.
This looks kinda bad but I can’t place my finger on what it is. I think it’s the like clay like textures and mobile phone like graphics.
This isn’t giving next gen to me and the trailer felt was less put together than they usually do. I guess I like the more realistic or hyper realistic style the cinematics have always pushed in my heads.
That being said, I hope it slaps. I miss a solid dawn of war that my pals and I can play. Nothing like Dark Crusade LAN parties back in the day.
It looks nice. I just wonder if what made the 2Ds ones fun for me gets translated into 3D. I always liked the almost Tribes like movement of skiing and flying from the OGs more than any other side scrolling platform game.
I am sure that many people use games to make statements, but not all devs think like that. Many of them just think “it would be cool to play/develop a game like this” without thinking about any kind of statement they will be making.
And thats great if you’re making Hello Kitty Island Adventure. These guys based their game off the movie Starship Troopers, not even the book that kinda idealized the military. But the one that made a statement about fascism. Seems to me the publisher had a slight disconnect with the actual developers there.
20 years on (yes, 20), that opening theme still gets me hyped up. I was really expecting the Battlestar to jump away from the missile in the last shot.
I’m playing through Ninja Gaiden 2 (X360) at the moment partly in preparation for this release. NG4 looks so fucking different but still - I think - promising. I’m not sure what I think about the full cyberpunk aesthetic but who plays these games for the story anyway? Combat looks vicious, fast and brutal and even though it looks very different from the old games it still looks good I think.
It’s more about the aesthetic, I really enjoyed when it was the weird modern/ancient mix they were going with before rather than this actual cyberpunk.
The Games Workshop of 2025 is not the GW of… fucking corpse god, 2004. Modern day GW very much cares about their brand and the “synergy” with tabletop and the like.
So I assume this was greenlit when they were pushing Mechanicus and all the “Armies of the Imperium” very hard as a way to break up the Guard and specialize more with heroes and so forth.
That said: Assume there will be at least one “secret” faction closer to launch. Probably Chaos because… duh.
The Games Workshop of 2025 is not the GW of… fucking corpse god, 2004. Modern day GW very much cares about their brand and the “synergy” with tabletop and the like.
GW has always been about chasing trends and synergy with new products. Xenos being ignored in favour of human armies has been a meme for as long as the game existed. And I remember DoW1 including flying units in the last expansion just because GW was pushing them in the tabletop.
Has it become even worse? Tbh I hate GW and I don’t keep up with their news.
GW has always been about chasing trends and synergy with new products.
In the video gaming space? No.
They’ve gone through a few different waves. Pre-Relic (so 90s) we have a lot less information on since most of those studios were dead long before game journos even realized they could talk to people but it was very much characterized by “whatever looks like a strategy game”. Relic (and the folk who did the underrated Fantasy RTS) kind of had carte blanche in the early 2000s. Yes, there were some clear mandates to incorporate certain armies (largely indicated by Relic outsourcing Soulstorm) but it was a lot closer to what we see with Total Warhammer these days where it was kinda just “make a video game version of 40k”.
Then… Dawn of War 3 happened and everything came crashing down. Probably also the MMO nobody but me played and said fantasy RTS that even the fans can’t remember the name of. But holy crap did everyone hate Dawn of War 3 to the point I am shocked they didn’t remove the number entirely and just call this “Dawn of War: Yo Dog, Primarchs is Back. All them Blood Ravens suddenly feel a strong urge to hang with Magnus But We’re Gonna Ignore That”
Which led to an era of slop where anyone who bought a PR person a six pack of cider could get the license. But from what various studios have alluded to in the 2020s, that is mostly gone (outside of mobile slop which has largely slowed down) and it is very much a case where if a game is being made it is because a specific product is being pushed. With Total Warhammer largely being the last holdout since even GW realizes nobody cares about Age of Sigmar (it amuses me that probably one of the biggest supporters of AoS online is Louise Sugden who can’t go a single video without all but daring GW to come at her and get her to explain why she left).
So if the fricking Mechanicus is an army: There is a reason. And it very well might be the reason for the game itself.
It’s mostly underwhelming, IMHO. Pick it up on sale only, if you can. And make sure you have at least 8gb of vram, or it’ll cease working after you get to Italy.
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