Warhammer has proved to be a well-traveled franchise, from its origins as a tabletop war game to the numerous strategic and role-playing games released on every system from the PC to Nintendo DS. But up until this point, the gritty fantasy series had yet to appear on the latest generation of home consoles.
That will change this fall when Namco Bandai releases Warhammer: Battle March for the Xbox 360. This tactical strategy game will include both the original Warhammer: Mark of Chaos, released in late 2006 for the PC, and the upcoming expansion from which it draws its name.
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Finally, the Warhammer series are going into the action genre. Only today, the company Relic officially confirmed the new action RPG game - Warhammer 40 000: Space Marine, and released the first gameplay trailer. The game will be played in a third person, and will feature a style of gameplay that will be something similar to Gears of War and God of War mixture.
EVER... I was blown away a few months back when the first trailer leaked. Thank god this got picked up. Can't wait to see more on it. If there's 4 player co-op... oh man, one can only hope.
"Finally, the Warhammer series {is} to put into the action genre. today, the company officially adopted the Relic of the new action RPG game - Warhammer 40 000: Space Marine, and while the first game Trailers. The game will be played a third person, and style of gameplay will be something like Gears of War and God of War mixture. The hero becomes a powerful space-qualified Infantry (Space Marine) and his team will have to recapture Orcus occupied the planet. Since this {is an} action RPG, the hero and his weapons will be able to continuously improve. Relic is also working on a great online mode and the ability to go {Through} the whole game {in a} co-op mode with friends via Xbox Live or PlayStation Network. Well, this first game trailer looks really impressive. Impressive effects besides excess blood Clan, Horde enemies, the destruction of the environment, excellent atnimacija (I guess this means animation?) - everything seems even too good to be true. Let us hope that during E3 we will find more from this project."
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Cleaned up some of the rough translation and put in a few words as to what I thought they might have meant.
Kyle Ackerman writes "Warhammer: Battle March on the Xbox 360 makes me feel old. I love real-time strategy games, I love the Warhammer universe and I love my Xbox 360, but trying to play Warhammer: Battle March on the Xbox 360 makes me feel stupid and ambisinestrous. Just trying to complete the game's tutorials, I found myself thinking that this must be what my brother-in-law felt like when I tried to convince him that Bioshock would be easy after his experience on the Atari 2600. All the commands I use on the PC are here, but involve combinations of button presses like simultaneously holding down the right trigger, the left side of the D-Pad and the "B" button. It works, but it's not easy. I find it impossible to remember in the heat of battle. I suppose that Warhammer: Battle March is penance for that time I encountered a piteous fellow begging for items in the early days of Diablo II and told him to hit Alt-F4 to open up the trade window. He did, and now I'm paying for it by trying to learn the controls in Warhammer: Battle March for the Xbox 360."
