There’s an inherent sense of All This Has Happened Before And All This Will Happen Again once you’ve spent as a few years as I’ve writing about videogames, however I obtained correct head-spinning deju vu after I examine Adeptus Mechanicus: Dominus right this moment. Didn’t I solely simply put up about an XCOMish Warhammer 40,000 turn-based technique recreation with a cod-Latin title? Turns out that was Mechanicus, not Titanticus. Obv. Though these icuses share a style, Titanicus is ploughing extra of a BattleTech furrow. Which is to say, large bloody robo-tanks knocking seven bells out of one another.
I misplaced my coronary heart to a 40Okay Titan after I was 13, and I by no means obtained it again – so perhaps, simply perhaps, this may overcome my Games Workshop adaptation fatigue.
Let’s go straight into the trailer:
It does look a bit PS3, and I’m not wild concerning the gameiness of what appears to be like like a points-scoring system. however in equity it’s based mostly upon the Titan Legions tabletop recreation – which I’ve by no means performed, my very own Titan-love being based mostly upon teenage bouts of Epic 40Okay. However, we get destructible buildings, an entire mess of Titan and weapon varieties which might be burned into my reminiscence perpetually, and what appears to be like like a BattleTechish subsystem injury concentrating on setup.
I got here round to BattleTech in an enormous away, after an sad first dozen+ hours, nevertheless it remained somewhat brief on persona all through – perhaps the heavy metallic charisma of Warlords, Reavers and Warhounds could make up for Titanticus’ noticeably much less swanky presentation.
In any case, Titanicus is first launching as an early entry dealio, so it would find yourself wanting considerably glossier but. It’ll even be launching with out melee fight, which feels a bit You Had One Job… on the subject of large robo-tank slugfests, however apparently that’s as a result of be added within the first main replace. This is the primary recreation from two-person Australian developer Membraine Studios, so your guess is pretty much as good as mine as to whether or not they’re gonna pull it off or not.
The preliminary early entry launch is subsequent Thursday, May 31. Just skirmish and multiplayer modes in that, however a marketing campaign is due for the total launch. Here’s the Steam page if you wish to scour for extra particulars or add it to your massive, stompy wishlist.
