Warhammer 40,000 Shootas, Blood & Teef
Warhammer 40,000 Shots, Blood & Thief – Orcs & Roll Attitude
A new game stamped Warhammer 40,000 is coming to Xbox consoles. The Games Workshop saga will have crossed eras and genres of games. After the Vermintide but before Space Marine II, this Warhammer with an extended name (we’ll call it Warharmmer 40k SBT) tackles a new genre: the run & gun with a hint of twin-stick shooter. Yeah Baby!
Yours truly, I must admit, is pretty uneducated in the Warhammer universe. The Games Workshop license, however, dating from 1987: I was more busy moving my posterior to La Bamba, Joe the Crazy Taxi or Madonna’s 405th hit, which was 123 years old before the birth of Michel Drucker at the time. For uneducated people like me, Warhammer 40k is a dystopian world where the Orcs mingle, The Imperium symbolized by the Space Marines who would pass Marcus Phénix for Barbie, the Eldars who would pass Rocco Siffredi… (nothing to see) , and the Chaos demons symbolized by Korganor and his numerous Visual Novel tests….I digress once again!
This Warhammer 40k SBT puts us in the shoes of an orc who has been betrayed by his high command and is forced to survey hostile territories accompanied by multiple “pokemons”.
An orc armed to the teeth
The graphics have an adult cartoonish style which are enjoyable. A soundtrack that pleases the rocker that I am. Tinted with guitars and melodies that smell good of 1664 and the perfecto. The basic gameplay is effective: shooting, jumping, changing weapons and the second stick to direct the aim. A Metal Slug with a dose of twin-stick shooter. For his character, you can choose different races of orcs each with their skills. Weapons can be bought at level checkpoints with “currency” that you will find here and there in the levels.
Retro Laser in action
In short, enough to customize your barbarian orc so that it corresponds to the enemies present and your way of playing. You can even if you feel like it, buy him little hats and other hairpieces so that you exclaim: “Orc, how beautiful he is!”
The line indicates the orientation of the 2nd stick
The enemies are varied, the bosses present. A game that does not have to be ashamed of the master standard of the discipline, I named Metal Slug, which despite all the praise I give to this game, will remain untouchable in terms of the quality of its gameplay, its animations, of the variety of these decorations…
The desert online
There is the presence of local coop from 2 to 4 players and the presence also of online mode which I admit, at the time of writing these lines, is desert… So I could not try my pudgy little fingers. A game which, if integrated into the Game Pass, would gain notoriety and presence in online mode.
What is a Tank for?
Good entertainment, well produced by Rogueside which, unfortunately for lack of spotlight on it, risks remaining in limbo in the store, unless you are fans of the Warhammer 40,000 license or if it is, as I said previously, integrate into the Xbox Game Pass catalog.