MyGamer: "Warhammer has been around long enough, and has enough back story explaining every nuance of every character's actions that it has a habit of making the story around Warcraft look shallow and empty. Battle March does very little to justify to the player who any of the main characters are, or how they relate to one another for anyone who hasn't read the volumes of text pertaining to the story. All told, Battle March does still manage to be a rather competent real time strategy game.
Unlike other strategy games, Battle March has no base building of any kind during gameplay, instead the units that are taken into battle are the ones that the entire area must be finished with. This adds an element of pressure to every map as when a unit dies, they are gone forever. Combined with the customization of new equipment for every unit, and the ability for them to gain experience and level the more they are used, this adds a sense of risk when sending a unit out as it may be lost forever.
This is felt especially hard when a hero unit is lost, as these units are vastly more powerful than standard units. The problem that this causes is the desire to never lose a single unit, ever, in any battle. As with most strategy games, these battles can last upwards of an hour, sometimes with only a handful of the player's most powerful units in play. A single bad choice at the end of an encounter can cause a hero unit to fall and die for the rest of the game, and the options are then to reset the area or continue the rest of the game without them."
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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."
