Cyanide are a wierd little studio. The French outfit was initially introduced on by Focus to develop Blood Bowl after their very own imitation, Chaos League, caught on to some small success throughout Europe. Ever since, they’ve carved out a distinct segment creating each Games Workshop properties and some of their very own, such because the Styx sequence.
Their subsequent undertaking is one thing close to and expensive to my coronary heart. After a couple of ropey diversifications from different studios, Cyanide try their hand at adapting board sport traditional Space Hulk to the PC, plus an additional little twist of their very own.
As with the previous few digital diversifications of Space Hulk, Tactics is based on the drum-tight (if just a little unpredictable, however that’s nice for 1v1 play) guidelines of the unique board sport, albeit with just a little wrinkle. In Tactics, each gamers have entry to decks of game-affecting playing cards, a few of which let you customise models earlier than a match begins, whereas others set off occasions on the board as soon as the sport is in motion.
It’ll be attention-grabbing to see how these playing cards might be earned and unlocked, if in any respect. The cynic in me says that it might be one more random booster/loot crate situation, however that is solely conjecture, and I hope that my intestine feeling is incorrect on that time. Beyond that, Space Hulk: Tactics will provide each Marine and Genestealer single-player campaigns to chop your enamel on, plus a map editor permitting you to create and share new situations, each for on-line or solo play. That alone is a particular enchancment over promoting map packs for a grid-based digital board sport.
Right now we’ve not received rather more than a handful of teaser screenshots and the essential function record, all of which you can see on the official site for the game. Cyanide and Focus Interactive plan on revealing extra particulars later this month. We’ll hold you posted as and once we discover out extra.
