Axe Father
Savant
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What’s up fellas. I’m playing Space Hulk: Vengeance of the Blood Angels and you are going to read about me doing it and look at cool pictures and shit.
The skinny is this: Space Hulk is THE board game for me. I’ve played it on and off in all its editions since I was a kid. EA made a tight little game in ‘93 based on it. It was good. It had a bunch of screens and looked like that one scene in Aliens where William Hope was in the APC looking at monitors before he got a footlocker dropped on his head. It was also hard as hell.
But here’s intel for you, chief. It had a sequel. On the 3DO, ‘cause EA. Then of course the 3DO instantaneously evaporated so it ended up on PC, PSX, and Saturn the following year. Thing is, the versions all have some noticeable differences between them. The 3DO version is the original and is the most visually attractive for my money. For some reason, it also has a heartbeat sound that beats faster when enemies get near that they axed from every other version. Spooky. The problem is the 3DO version is choppy as hell and slow to play.
So that leads us to the PC version. It’s mostly a straight port of the 3DO version, only its the sole version that has network play. It runs much smoother and plays faster than the 3DO version but the colors seem washed out and the sprite work looks kind of messy in comparison.
I don’t have any experience with the PSX/Saturn ports, but from what I gather they aren’t as good so fuck ‘em. The PC port is the one I’m going with ‘cause of its smoother gameplay. I also don’t know anything about doing an LP so let me know if the formatting sucks. Let’s rock.
The skinny is this: Space Hulk is THE board game for me. I’ve played it on and off in all its editions since I was a kid. EA made a tight little game in ‘93 based on it. It was good. It had a bunch of screens and looked like that one scene in Aliens where William Hope was in the APC looking at monitors before he got a footlocker dropped on his head. It was also hard as hell.
But here’s intel for you, chief. It had a sequel. On the 3DO, ‘cause EA. Then of course the 3DO instantaneously evaporated so it ended up on PC, PSX, and Saturn the following year. Thing is, the versions all have some noticeable differences between them. The 3DO version is the original and is the most visually attractive for my money. For some reason, it also has a heartbeat sound that beats faster when enemies get near that they axed from every other version. Spooky. The problem is the 3DO version is choppy as hell and slow to play.
So that leads us to the PC version. It’s mostly a straight port of the 3DO version, only its the sole version that has network play. It runs much smoother and plays faster than the 3DO version but the colors seem washed out and the sprite work looks kind of messy in comparison.
I don’t have any experience with the PSX/Saturn ports, but from what I gather they aren’t as good so fuck ‘em. The PC port is the one I’m going with ‘cause of its smoother gameplay. I also don’t know anything about doing an LP so let me know if the formatting sucks. Let’s rock.
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