They’ve gone and performed it, staff. Warhammer: Vermintide 2 builders Fatshark went and put their rat-smasher in house, saying Warhammer 40,000: Darktide at as we speak’s Xbox Games Showcase. Frankly, it’s about rattling time somebody made a rock-solid FPS within the 41st Millenium – and who higher than the parents who turned a stodgy previous fantasy wargame right into a stellar Left 4 Dead successor?
Fatshark revealed Darktide with a brief cinematic earlier as we speak. Crack out your 40Okay bingo playing cards, readers – we’ve bought needlessly stoic brits, poorly lit corridors and existential dread aplenty.
Darktide seems to be to be following the Vermintide format intently, providing a four-player co-op romp by the dampest, foulest pits of a grim world, warding off hordes of rats zombies, mutant cultists and demons. So far, we’ve solely seen a gaggle of faceless Imperial Guardsmen, however the actual energy of Ratpunch was its characters – as mechanically various as they had been delightfully bitter.
The grimdark future has some correct weirdos in it, so I’m quietly hoping Darktide can actually pull by on that entrance. Vermintide’s superb melee fight is claimed to be returning as a spotlight, too, so I’m hoping for chainsaw-wielding battle nuns and drill-tentacled Mechanicus servitors thrown in alongside yer bog-standard bloke-with-a-flashlight Guardsman. Please?
Yes, there are altogether too many 40Okay games on the market, however I don’t assume anybody’s had a correct crack at an FPS in that world since 2003’s unbelievably naff Fire Warrior. But then, I’m proudly on record in considering Vermintide blew zombie-smashing fave Left 4 Dead 2 out of the water, and reckon Fatshark can deliver these co-op romps into the underhive.
Warhammer: 40,000: Darktide will launch on Steam subsequent 12 months.
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