Warhammer 40K: Space Marines + Jon’s Last Post

So for those of you who might care, this is in fact, my last post on Secondary Fire. I’ve been drafted into the ranks of the few, the proud, the mighty. I will be running off to make video games instead of writing and talking about them. Where I’m going, I cannot say. When I’ll be back, you cannot know. Okay, actually, I’m going to Koei Canada. When I’ll be back, well, that is hard to say. I’m going to see if I can come back to do other media reviews and opinions, but it is a slippery slope and a very sticky mess to boot. But I digress.

I’ll be leaving this blogsite in the capable hands of none other than Mr. Amrit Maharaj, whom I’m sure will continue to share his love of all things gamey (that sounds kinda gross, actually), and all those of nerd-dom.

When I first spied the Relic logo at the start of this video, I immediately assumed and prepared for another strategy game, something Relic does in spades. However, as I watched the video, I realized two very important things:

1. While there’s no real gameplay shown, this looks very little like a strategy game.
2. This is a console game - Relic has cut their teeth developing strategy for the PC.

So I’m not sure what to expect - but I can leave you with several of my buzzword expectations. Four Player Co-op. Weapons-based Combat. Epic Story. Enjoy the video.

More Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine Info

I’m out. Game On. One Love … and so forth.

- Jon Chan

Dawn of War II Goes Gold, Release Date Inside

In a press release issued by THQ and Relic Entertainment today, the news that many a Warhammer fan has been waiting for is finally here: Dawn of War 2 is GOLD with the game set to hit store shelves on February 19th 2009.

Here is a short excerpt from the announcment:

Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II, developed by the award-winning Real-time strategy developer, Relic Entertainment, has reached the gold master stage of development and is now entering manufacturing. Set in the grim, war-ravaged world of Games Workshop’s Warhammer 40,000 science fiction universe, Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II delivers visceral combat, stunning visuals, and destructible environments throughout a non-linear single-player experience as well as a fully cooperative multiplayer campaign via Microsoft’s free Games for Windows - LIVE service. Developed exclusively for Windows PC and powered by an enhanced version of Relic’s proprietary Essence Engine 2.0.

Relic looks to continue their pedigree with Dawn of War 2, taking the emphasis out of base building and grinding out an economy and putting the focus solely on fast-paced and bone crushing combat, similar to the approach they took in creating the much acclaimed Company of Heroes.

There are a couple neat stills that I want to post from the newest CGI trailer but in the mean time check out this relatively new trailer showing off some of the units that you’ll be using to wreak havoc in the game:

It looks like Starcraft 2 is going to have some stiff competition for best RTS of 2009 with this one. If you are looking for more info on the game check out the Official Dawn of War 2 website.

One last trailer showing off how truly epic this game is going to be:

And I just had to include this trailer in here just cause its so friggin sweet it could’ve been a piece of candy: