Poll: Which 40K game is the best?

[Iwata]

"Space Hulk", the novel, falls flat for the same reason. Except instead of a videogame, it pretty much narrates a tabletop game of Space Hulk. Marines go into space hulk. Marines open doors. Spooky. They see blips in scanner. Blips are Genestealers. Shoot shoot stab stab die. Ok...

No see, I've read that one, and while I'm hardly going to sing the praises of a novella that only exists because it's a direct tie-in to the new Space Hulk game release, it was at least internally consistent with the 40K universe - sure, it can't be particularly surprising given the entire premise, but space marines fighting genestealers in a space hulk is something that space marines actually do, and Gav Thorpe managed to describe those sequences in a vaguely interesting way if nothing else.

Trust me when I say that, compared to Fire Warrior, Space Hulk: The Novel is ridiculously good.

You just blew my mind.

I'm afraid I'll have to give you...

 

[Gerrawn]

Dawn of War easily. It looked, felt and most of all SOUNDED like 40k. I mean honestly, the voice acting there is some of the best I've ever heard, everything that exits my speakers while playing Dawn of War is pure orgasmic.

0:47 is the most epic speech I've ever heard.

 

[Valkyrie101]

Fire Warrior... ah, Fire Warrior... despite an excellent voice cast (Brian Blessed, Tom Baker, Sean Pertwee) the game itself was, in a word, crap. I gave this game two chances, once on the PC, then on the PS2, and it never fails to disapoint. A single Tau Fire Warrior slaughtering his way past Space Marines, Chaos Raptors, Valkyrie Gunships, Obliterators... umm... no. Suspension of disbelief is one thing, but this is taking it too far.

Oh man, don't ever read the novel! I made the mistake of thinking that it couldn't be too awful, as the author behind Lord of the Night (Simon Spurrier) had written it, and LotN was bloody excellent.

Oh how wrong I was - imagine somebody had been standing over your shoulder as you were playing Fire Warrior. Now imagine they sat down and typed out, nearly word for word, exactly what you were doing in game while they watched, video game logic and all. I'm talking tri-part key sequences, weapon swapping, multi-stage boss fights with obvious "shoot the power source he's drawing from!" weak spots, watching events happen through impervious glass, always being alone with somebody's voice in your ear, the works. And all the while the main character is working me into a frothing rage by virtue of his sheer impossibility - I honestly think I ruptured a few blood vessels from how angry I got over Kais's continued existence (he should have been a cyan smear in the first chapter alone).

And the absolute worst part is that the bits where Kais isn't breaking the bloody fourth wall simply by existing? Those were actually good, grah! Fire Warrior may not be the worst book I've ever read, but it's absolutely the worst Warhammer 40,000 book and it's most definitely the novel that wins hands down the "Makes Gildan want to start punching his fists through drywall whenever he even thinks about it" award.

[small]So please for your own sanity do not dig up a copy out of curiosity. Some things are better left unknown.[/small]

I liked the part where he blasted his way into a Titan, made it to the command area and then started slaughtering Death Guard with a railgun.

 

[Cracktopus]

I *love* Dawn of War 2 so much. That's not to say that the original DOW is bad, I just liked DOW2 a lot more. IMHO it doesen't deserve all the hate it gets.


Nothing beats the tabletop though.

 

[GonzoGamer]

Final Liberation was epic (no pun intended). The cutscenes, the huge battles, the freakin' TITANS! I still love that game to bits.

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Your thoughts?

How did you get Final Liberation to work? I probably would?ve picked it if I was ever able to get through a match without crashing to the desktop. Yes, a fantastic game and one of the best 40k video games but it was more buggy than Fallout 3.

With that taken into consideration I had to pick Dawn of War... But the Dark Crusade expansion is what really opened that game up.

What I would love to see is Final Liberation remade. They could probably build it to work on the iphone and the DS. That would be cool.

 

[Caradinist]

I'm a big RTS fan, and at the same time i was pretty interested in the universe of Warhammer:40,000. Relic has made great RTS games, so i thought it was a golden opportunity.

It's true, it's a completely different game, and it's not based on rolls and turns with creatively painted models...But just because it's different, doesn't mean it's bad.

 

[blankedboy]

I have Dark Crusade... is that the original Dawn of War series? It's the only 40K I've got.

 

[Worgen]

The answer is obviously starcraft.

its also the wrong answer

I love me some dow and dow 2 altho I suppose dow 2 will have to just edge out dow for me since I absolutely love the last stand mode
was tempting to say final liberation since I beat that game so many times, even worked out a way to get titans in the first lvl and just stomp the rest of the game with them

 

[Worgen]

Final Liberation was epic (no pun intended). The cutscenes, the huge battles, the freakin' TITANS! I still love that game to bits.

...
Your thoughts?

How did you get Final Liberation to work? I probably would?ve picked it if I was ever able to get through a match without crashing to the desktop. Yes, a fantastic game and one of the best 40k video games but it was more buggy than Fallout 3.

With that taken into consideration I had to pick Dawn of War... But the Dark Crusade expansion is what really opened that game up.

What I would love to see is Final Liberation remade. They could probably build it to work on the iphone and the DS. That would be cool.

apparently they will be doing a more dark crusade type campaign for the next dow 2 expansion and its gonna have pirate orks

 

[Digital_Jedi]

As a long time 40k fan, I'd say that DOW2 was the winner, it took everything that made DOW great and made it better, apart from the army size, but even that had it's purpose, which was to make you more tactical. However nothing beats the tabletop game!

 

[GonzoGamer]

Final Liberation was epic (no pun intended). The cutscenes, the huge battles, the freakin' TITANS! I still love that game to bits.

...
Your thoughts?

How did you get Final Liberation to work? I probably would?ve picked it if I was ever able to get through a match without crashing to the desktop. Yes, a fantastic game and one of the best 40k video games but it was more buggy than Fallout 3.

With that taken into consideration I had to pick Dawn of War... But the Dark Crusade expansion is what really opened that game up.

What I would love to see is Final Liberation remade. They could probably build it to work on the iphone and the DS. That would be cool.

apparently they will be doing a more dark crusade type campaign for the next dow 2 expansion and its gonna have pirate orks

That is something to look forward to.
Are these the Freebooterz? Will it incorporate other ork clans or are they just ork pirates?

 

[Worgen]

That is something to look forward to.
Are these the Freebooterz? Will it incorporate other ork clans or are they just ork pirates?

yeah they are freebooterz but they havent given much info on it, really they have just announced the orks, there will be at least a few factions players can choose between for the campaign, here is the interview site http://www.pcgamer.com/2010/08/17/orks-world-first-interview-on-dawn-of-war-2-retribution-screenshots/

 

[TerranReaper]

Dawn of War, all the way to Dark Crusade. I didn't think Soulstorm was that up to par and DoW2 changed quite a bit that I didn't like.

 

[obliviondoll]

Fire Warrior... ah, Fire Warrior... despite an excellent voice cast (Brian Blessed, Tom Baker, Sean Pertwee) the game itself was, in a word, crap. I gave this game two chances, once on the PC, then on the PS2, and it never fails to disapoint. A single Tau Fire Warrior slaughtering his way past Space Marines, Chaos Raptors, Valkyrie Gunships, Obliterators... umm... no. Suspension of disbelief is one thing, but this is taking it too far.

I'd have agreed with this, had I not seen a unit of 6 Fire Warriors take down 8 Assault Terminators and a Chaplain also in Terminator armour. In 3 turns of close combat. Without a single casualty.

Stranger things have happened.

In case you're wondering, I was the very embarrassed Space Marine player. And no, they weren't loaded dice. How do I know? We were both using MY DICE.

 

[repeating integers]

The original tabletop game. Relic's RTS games are good, but can't match the tabletop version.

Huh, there are other 40k games? Ones not made by Relic? What are you talking about?