A Space Hulk Video Game Set To Return In 2013!
December 10, 2012 by brennon
It looks like Games Workshop are going digital for a lot of their Specialist Games with a surprise announcement that Space Hulk is returning next year in digital format with help from Full Control ApS...
Here is what the website has to say...
The main features are
- Blood Angel terminator squad
- Fearsome Genestealers with challenging AI
- Thematic 3d environment
- Single player campaign based on the "Sin of Damnation" hulk
- New coop multiplayer levels against the Genestealer AI
- Multiplayer head-to-head recreating the board game experience against a friend
- Cross platform multiplayer between PC, Mac and iOS
- Level editor with ability to share creations
- Game expansions in the future as DLC
Now that list of features sounds pretty promising. I do like the idea of being able to create your own hulk layouts and sharing them with others, seeing if they can beat the challenge you set before them. As long as it manages to keep the feel of the board game I think I'll be happy.
This, added to Warhammer Quest, the news from Creative Assembly and the long running Blood Bowl franchise with Cyanide points to a whole lot more digital content from Games Workshop over the coming years.
The Space Hulk video games were pretty fun when I was younger, and I have also played a few internet creations which tried to bring the experience into the digital realm. Here's hoping that this iteration brings us a faithful but 'cool' experience.
Check out the teaser above and let me know what you think of this Space Hulk remake!
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Seems like a mobile game, pretty unexciting development as far as I’m concerned but the Creative Assembly news was most welcome so I’m not too disappointed! ;P
Anyone willing to bet it’ll be like this:-?
http://www.fullcontrol.dk/games_tacticalsoldier.html
I like my turn based strategy games so provided it’s half decent I’ll be interested! Complete turn around to my last post, how fickle are these fans, eh? ¬_¬
I’m quite interested in seeing how it develops. From the way the teaser graphics look it doesn’t appear to be toooooo A-List, but then again it is coming to iOS as well as PC and Mac so some things have to be sacrificed.
I still enjoy playing the older versions of it, regardless of how it looks graphically so as long as the core mechanics remain the same and it has an added level of ‘cool’ then it sounds good to me. As I mentioned the list of features is certainly promising, let’s hope they deliver.
BoW Ben
Agreed
But, but I dont own anything Apple.
There’s a REALLY easy solution to that problem. ;P
honestly there is too little to see, bad trailer, what I can assume it is an IOS game that will be ported to pc and mac, graphics look really bad, DOW had better so did DOW 2 (obviously)
The only thing i could get excited about for this announcement would be if it heralded a rerelease of the actual space hulk game, either another run of third edition or a new version, dont care.
Dear lord, don’t let them **** this up…
I have a funny feeling is going to be rubbish. Why did they not give it to THQ, they have been fantastic work so far.
It’s been pretty widely covered in the videogame media that THQ are in real trouble financially, that or Relic just have their hands full with Company of Heroes 2 and maybe some other, yet unspecified, projects.
Not to mention this is looking very much like a cheap ‘n cheerful iOS game in the vein of the upcoming Warhammer Hero Quest game, I wouldn’t at all be surprised if this was meant to tie in with that particular game to get 40k covered…
Wait theres already a space hulk game out for iOS and it is utter pants. This i am sorry but i dont have high hopes for. The last good Space hulk game was Space Hulk Vengeance of the Blood Angels, had that one the Playstation and that was a good game, which is funny as a lot of people seem to have forgotten it ever exsisted.
Ios only? Bum.
Am playing an Android rip off at the minute and it is, unsurprisingly, utter sperv. 🙂
Wonder if they are going to have it with magos’ and hybrids or if they are going with the current tyranid family.
What I’m kicking myself about is not buying the Box game for $75 bucks when its like $325 now! And probably the best plastic Blood Angel Termies right out of the box.
The game will be a limited release and only ~2000 copies will be made.
Download your copy today!
I know that won’t happen because it’s an PC/IOS game.
But I’m still but hurt about the board game not being mass produced.
It’s out… and pretty good. I’ve only played the first few levels so far but it’s just like the board game, including the frequently fatal jamming. Check it out.