These weapons of war are damage sponges whose weapons crack with apocalyptic fury, and as your fellow Tau blow apart all around you, you just might find yourself taking a break to catch your breath as the terror of war ramps up in Warhammer 40,000: Fire Warrior. We are so used to seeing this fictional universe through the lens of space marine’s helmet so it’s only right that we should experience what it must be like to be on the business end of their zealous wrath. ![]() ![]() Fire Warrior only becomes truly terrifying when the player-controlled Tau face-off with space marines. Rooms are cleared, enemies are put down, and all is as it should be in the dark future of the 41st Millenium. Playing as a Fire Warrior, war is fought with lasers and grenades. Instead, players are dropped into the alien boots of the Tau-a blue, tall and lanky alien species who believes in “The Greater Good” and go to war in sleek, futuristic war machines. Yet, players do not play as space marines or the Imperial Guard. Warhammer 40,000: Fire Warrior is a deceptively run-of-the-mill early 2000s first-person-shooter. Warhammer 40,000: Fire Warrior (2003) by Kuju Entertainment Warhammer 40,000: Inquisitor – Martyr is a delightfully eerie top-down experience that is imbued with horror from its very first screen-a gothic starship meandering through the miasma of space. But if the game tips the level system against the player, then combat becomes a scary exercise in attrition. In some regards, players become the true horror of the experience-an overleveled Inquisitor mowing down swarms of lesser foes is, well, a power-trip for the ages. But this is 40K after all, so they all pop and tear apart in appropriately gory fashions. Monsters are around every corner and they range from “just scary” to downright petrifying. Planets are desolate and in varying states of decay and ruin. Far from a perfect game (just look at its name), Warhammer 40,000: Inquisitor – Martyr does excel in making the player feel one with the 40K setting. It is Diablo in space with oppressively grimdark visuals and lore. Warhammer 40,000: Inquisitor – Martyr ( 2018) by NeocoreGamesĪn action RPG in the Warhammer 40K universe? Yes, please! Well, Warhammer 40,000: Inquisitor – Martyr is exactly that. Oh, and the fact that every step of the way, the space marine story is filled with fascistic turns that will make anyone (including the story’s main character, Captain Titus) think twice about their in-game actions. Yet, once Chaos marines (evil space marines) and daemons of the warp get involved, things take a turn for the phantasmagoric in the creepiest ways possible. And at face value, not much of it seems scary. It all plays quite well and still holds up swimmingly, and it is a real shame that it is not backward compatible. Players shoot and slice their way through the green menace leaving only body parts and viscera in their wake. In it, players control a titular space marine-gene-enhanced humanoid beings of war and ruin who are clad in thick power armor and use larger-than-life weapons-sent to a forgeworld beset by cockney-accented Orks. Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine is a deceptively simple video game (and a rather blunt game-title). Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine (2011) by Relic Entertainment In fact, here are five of the scariest Warhammer 40,000 video games that you should play and, in turn, be scared by. But that does not mean that there aren’t chills and terrors to be found in Warhammer 40,000 themed video games. Direct horror stories are a relatively new venture for Games Workshop (their novel publishing house Black Library now has a dedicated horror vertical and the forthcoming Eisenhorn television series will undoubtedly be soaked in horror motifs) and their video game licensing has yet to see a true horror experience be born. Yet, most horror in Warhammer 40,000 is indirect-simple gore, demons, and bad endings for all involved. A universe that is so bleak, so nihilistic to the point of parody would mean that it is rife for some grand tales of horror. The fictional universe of Games Workshop’s Warhammer 40,000 IP is a place rife with madness, violence, lurking horrors and a representation of mankind that is far from being “the good guys”.
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