Game News Necromunda: Underhive Wars releasing on September 8th

[Infinitron]

Tags: Focus Home Interactive; Necromunda: Underhive Wars; Rogue Factor

Rogue Factor and Focus Home Interactive published three development updates for Necromunda: Underhive Wars over the course of July, which besides offering details about gameplay also included a few in-game screenshots and a look at some of the game's environments. Today we finally got to see some actual gameplay footage in a new trailer announcing that Necromunda will be out on September 8th. I'll post it here alongside the accompanying announcement:

Rogue Factor and Focus Home Interactive are proud to present the first look at gameplay for Necromunda: Underhive Wars, the upcoming third-person tactical action game set in Games Workshop’s iconic far-future cityscape, coming to PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC on September 8.

Deep below the nightmarish, polluted hive cities of Necromunda, in the twisted, vertiginous, dark tunnels of the Underhive, rival gangs fight to the bitter end for personal power, wealth, survival and the honour of their House. See the first gameplay in today’s brand new trailer.

This summer, only the strongest will survive the perils of the Underhive!

Lead, customize, and grow your forces of Escher, Goliath, and Orlock gangers. Specialize each member and send them to battle in hazardous, vertical dystopian environments. Exploit the terrain in explosive tactical gunfights: climb raised walkways to take the advantage, set traps, and ambush foes to force them into bloody melee engagements.

Necromunda: Underhive Wars is coming to PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC on September 8, with pre-orders now available on PC. Stay tuned for even more project news very soon!
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So now it's a "tactical action game"? I do wish they would make up their minds.

 

[Sweeper]

Are we finally gonna get a good WH40k game?
Dare I hope?

 

[Major_Blackhart]

Day 1 purchase for me

 

[Iluvcheezcake]

Keeping my eye on this

 

[SausageInYourFace]

tactical action game

What does that mean, tho? From the trailer it still looks like Mordheim, turn based squad tactics.

 

[TheGameSquid]

Are we finally gonna get a good WH40k game?
Dare I hope?

I just finished Mechanicus, that was pretty fun. Seems like a pretty generic game at first, but the cognition points do add an interesting twist. It does the setting justice as well and has a killer soundtrack.
Armageddon is a pretty fun, if standard wargame, and Gladius isn't half bad either.

There's also the older games: Final Liberation was fun back in the day, and Chaos Gate is honestly still pretty good even today. I never played Rites of War myself, so don't know about that one, and I didn't play the 90s Space Hulk games either.

 

[Baron Dupek]

climb raised walkways to take the advantage,

I got sudden flashbacks from Brink for some reason.

 

[Thac0]

They are botching their marketing pretty hard. I hope the game will be good enough to speak for itself. In a worst case scenario for them it will only be bought by people who know and love Mordheim.

 

[Darkforge]

So this is a 40k version of Mordheim? I'm in.

 

[Zeriel]

Are we finally gonna get a good WH40k game?
Dare I hope?

Mordheim was pretty good. But based on the fact they totally revamped this from a strategy game into a tactical shooter, I'm not expecting great things...

Also obligatory, "It looks like a Seattle/Portland simulator."

tactical action game

What does that mean, tho? From the trailer it still looks like Mordheim, turn based squad tactics.

The "play solo or in co op" and some of the clips makes it seem less like commanding a squad than Mordheim, but perhaps its just a really bad trailer. I'd guess not, though. They DID spend a while not talking about the game and totally revamping it, so it being turned into an action game would actually not be that surprising.

 

[Infinitron]

It's not really a tactical "action" game. The game is turn-based. They say "action" because it has XTREME third-person camera angles I guess.

Both this and Mordheim danced around with their genre terminology. Sometimes it's a tactical RPG, sometimes it isn't.

 

[Zeriel]

Fair enough. I wonder why they specify "solo and up to 4 players" then. Mordheim would have phrased that as playing against other players. Without some clarification I'm going to remain skeptical.

 

[Fuck_The_Banks]

Looks like a re-skinned Mordheim. Liked that game, but disappointed they dropped it like a stone for this. Will wait and see how it develops.

 

[TheGameSquid]

WH40k

Mordheim

 

[Sweeper]

Warhammer Fantasy =/= WH40K Infinitron.
Stop being a relativist Jew.

 

[Infinitron]

I think you misunderstood Zeriel's point.

Mordheim was pretty good. (so you might assume that a new game from the same developer would also be good) But...

Mordheim's setting isn't relevant.

 

[eXalted]

Looks like it's going to be a pretty good tactical game but that trailer feels so awkward to me because they wanted to appeal to the masses.

 

[Thac0]

Looks like it's going to be a pretty good tactical game but that trailer feels so awkward to me because they wanted to appeal to the masses.

Yeah, I don't think scamming normies out of their bucks with extremely misleading trailers and genre descriptions is gonna help their sales either. But maybe it pays off and they realise the glory of turn based tactics instead of refunding ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

[Old Hans]

Looks like it's going to be a pretty good tactical game but that trailer feels so awkward to me because they wanted to appeal to the masses.

considering its coming out next month, and the only gameplay footage consists of a few fast cuts in a promo video. not good

 

[Whisper]

I just finished Mechanicus, that was pretty fun. Seems like a pretty generic game at first, but the cognition points do add an interesting twist. It does the setting justice as well and has a killer soundtrack.
Armageddon is a pretty fun, if standard wargame, and Gladius isn't half bad either.

There's also the older games: Final Liberation was fun back in the day, and Chaos Gate is honestly still pretty good even today. I never played Rites of War myself, so don't know about that one, and I didn't play the 90s Space Hulk games either.

what is cognition point?

 

[StaticSpine]

what is cognition point?

It's an analogue of action points, but they do not replenish automatically every turn, though there are lots of ways to gain them during turns. P. cool mechanic.

 

[Whisper]

what is cognition point?

It's an analogue of action points, but they do not replenish automatically every turn, though there are lots of ways to gain them during turns. P. cool mechanic.

Brilliant idea. I wonder why we dont see this idea in other games.

Managing CP is really fun.