THQ's Warhammer 40,000 license extended
More lovely Warhammer 40,000 video games shall flow forth from THQ, as the publisher's licensing agreement has been extended.
THQ's exclusive license to publish video games based upon Games Workshop's grim tabletop wargame has received a multi-year extension, the two companies announced today.
THQ is the publisher behind Relic Entertainment's lovely 40k RTS series Dawn of War, which has shipped--not sold--6.5 million units to date. The most recent DoW title was Dawn of War II - Retribution - The Last Standalone, a $10 downloadable spin-off of the co-op survival mode from Dawn of War II - Retribution.
"The impressive translation of the Warhammer 40,000 universe from the tabletop to the video game space by THQ certainly highlights the potential of our most successful intellectual property in the right hands," Games Workshop CEO Mark Wells said in the announcement. "We know that the depth of the storylines, characters and imagery of the Warhammer 40,000 universe positions the IP to excel across many media platforms--and extending our agreement with THQ will help ensure that Warhammer 40,000 maintains a strong and growing presence in the video game space."
The extended license applies to mobile and social games as well as "core" platforms. THQ president Brian Farrell notes that its 40k feast "will continue to grow with top quality games across all platforms," though I wouldn't start fretting about HiveVille just yet if I were you.
WH40k titles currently in development include action game Space Marine and Dark Millennium Online, the MMORPG from Darksiders developer Vigil Games. THQ has also confirmed that the third full instalment--numerous expansions and expandalones aside--in the Dawn of War series is in the works, though it has yet to be formally announced.
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More lovely Warhammer 40,000 video games shall flow forth from THQ, as the publisher's licensing agreement has been extended.-
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It'll be a long, co-op story epic where players each take control of a different species' commander (Marines, Orks, Tau etc.) and do third person battle against the Tyranids and Necrons on various faithfully rendered worlds. It'll have everything from indoors spec ops (including inside space hulks as in Chaos Rising) to open plains battles, while featuring Red Faction: Guerrilla style physics. Gameplay will be a masterfully balanced blend of tactics and badass action, avoiding both too much grinding and excessive complexity.
Description of a typical mini-boss encounter: In a 3-man game, the SM Force Commander, Ork Warboss and Tau Commander spot a large Tyranid Carnifex accompanied by a group of smaller creatures and a few Coanthropes. They decide to attack (coordinating focus and abilities over Vent or similar). The Marine charges and stuns the Thropes, while the Ork attracts the attention of the Carnifex, using his bulk to absorb the hits until the lesser foes can be disposed of.
Meanwhile the Tau's options start firing on the little swarm of fuckers, and he opts to burn a good chuck of ammo to mow them down with his flamethrower and gatling gun. Then the three of them turn toward the enraged Carnifex.
PS: wishful thinking. THQ, don't sue if this ends up being accurate.-
No.
First off, that would rape cannon.
Necrons and Tyranids would never work together, let alone the Xenophobic Space Marines, the expansionist Tau, and the... Orks. You don't even need to give them a title. They just wouldn't.
Second, why? It's an RTS, not a FPS. You're suggesting we play Last Stand, only not survival.
I hope to whatever omniscient creature is out there that you are wrong and that this is not what it will be. Please.
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Where was this said?
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I really hope theres some new DMO info at E3 this year.
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Easter front?
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I would kill for Vietnam
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JESUS FUCKING CHRIST PLEASE GOD CAN WE GET HOMEWORLD 3 ALREADY.
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Love it.
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Yes this! Or I don't even really need a sequel, just more maps and better AI. Those are the only things I have issues with in the current version.
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Agreed. Things like the Mekboy charging into close combat with a Shootah, Cyrus moving forward between covers despite the fact that he has a sniper rifle, Tac and Devastator marines not firing occasionally when in buildings... That's pretty easy crap.
Though I would like to see this new massive-scale gameplay.
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Fuck that. Give me a new Homeworld Relic.
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Gimme a goddamn large-scale WH40K RTS game. Goddamnit.
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I've seen you say this a few times, and I think you are confusing standard 40k with 40k Epic. From all I've seen, 40k has always been about small to mid-scale battles, not huge Total War style wars.
Personally, I think DoW2 is as close to RTS perfection as reality permits.-
It depends on how you play 40K. There can be tabletop games comparable in scope to DoW1 or greater, but you're right in that what I really want is something closer to Epic levels. There's constant reference to these large-scale battles in the fluff but we never get to play them in RTS form.
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Heck, for that matter Titans are central in Winter Assault and Space Marine, but they won't let us field one!
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You have never seen a Apocalyspe game then.
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Well, the IG is supposed to be Total War style in number...
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Then you're wrong. I've played 40k. You don't see 7 necrons marching towards twelve Orks most of the time.
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I don't understand the desire for base building. There is no level of complexity missing by moving unit upgrade trees to the units themselves and keeping the focus on the battle.
Destroying and denying enemy generators is already hugely important, but again, it keeps the focus out on the field.
Flying back to base, clicking on a building menu, and manually placing it is not fun and just draws you away from the battle to complete a laundry list of chores. There are plenty of RTS games out there with base building, we don't need MOTS.-
I don't recall him saying anything about base-building, actually.
Larger-scale armies would be great, even without the RPG elements or bases.
I mean, take a quick look at the tabletop game itself. We've got a point system that chooses how many units you can take, and then what you do with them is up to you.
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I've been playing a lot of Retribution, and in a 2v2 or 3v3 (especially 3v3) on some of the bigger maps, it gets pretty insane with the amount of units and battles happening simultaneously. And that all multiplies dramatically if a few of the players are using blobby armies like Nids, Orks, or IG.
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Hey, they were willing to alienate the people who liked the earlier DoW style.
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No, they were willing to alienate people who like the 40K game style. Especially the Canon fans.
And alienate them they did.
But they fixed that for the most part in DoW2. If they go back to base-building, they're going to kill any appeal they had left for either side.
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I've devised a simple formula to cover this topic. Relic + 40k = insta-buy.
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Homeworld 40k!
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Homeworld Empires, Total War in Space
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XBLA version of Space Hulk plz
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Extending the license doesn't come as a surprise, Relic (and hopefully Vigil as well) is doing fine things with it.
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Speaking of WH40K! I'm starting a project soon to paint all of my NERF guns in the style of IG/Space Marines weapons.
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only recently jsut got into the dow franchise but absolutely love it already.cant wait for dow3,will they have last stand in it does anyone know?and whats the news with the new last stand character for dow2, is it confirmed?
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