The 41st Millenium Returns Online in New MMORPG!
June 12, 2013 by dracs
It has been going on over a year since our dreams of exploring the grim darkness of the far future online died. But now that dream is revived as developers Behaviour Interactive are working on a new MMORPG they are calling Warhammer 40,000: Eternal Crusade!
Eternal Crusade is to be an entirely different game to the previously expected MMORPG Dark Millennium. In it players will be able to join one of four Warhammer 40k races; namely the Eldar, Space Marines, Chaos Space Marines and Orks. These will be engaged in massive battles over entire planets, with players able to form units, or "Battle Squads" , as well as having access to iconic 40k vehicles. The game will play in over-the-shoulder third-person perspective and there should be a strong focus upon melee and gun based combat.
From this we can gather that Eternal Crusade will most likely focus more upon the conflict and warfare of Warhammer, rather than its extended world. The idea of taking part in the large scale battles we often play out on our tabletops from the perspective of its soldiers and heroes is intriguing and should make for a cool experience.
The game itself will be released for XBox One, PS4 and PC and is looking at a release date in 2015. I for one am looking forward to it and I hope it should be as awesome as it sounds.
What sort of game do you hope this turns out to be?
Mhhh the only two big titles they have is Halo Waypoint and Dante’s Inferno. The second one gives me some hope… but the voices on the website are pretty bad -.- really bad in deed, The CSM sound exactly as the SM , and they don’t have those great voices that makes you want to vote them for president of the entire solar system ( if you remember Gabriel Angelos, you know what i mean ). Even the Ork sound like a pretty normal voice trying to be guttural but failing miserably. The game concept idea looks awesome… but i… Read more »
I think the Eldar sounded a bit odd for sure. Be fun to see where it goes though.
I have my own doubts about Behaviour’s promises (see the forum thread), but I’ll give them a pass on the voice acting for now. There’s no way they’ve done most of the voice recording yet so the stuff on their website was probably thrown together last minute before any real concept design was fully fleshed out. The text on the landing page that’s supposedly from the Inquisition worries me much more. “An empty mind is a loyal mind.” Yeah, the Inquisition is pretty awful, and they certainly have an “ends justifies the means” mentality, but that’s not something that fits… Read more »
I would agree with you in terms of the “an empty mind…” remark not fitting except that the tagline for the Grey Knights used to be “Innocence Proves Nothing”, and equally idiotic yet macho sounding phrase. So yeah I have no problem with that.
I disagree about the Innocence Proves Nothing statement. There’s some gravitas there. It’s not a mindless platitude but a statement about the Warp’s ability to manipulate the unwitting, and the necessity of sacrificing innocent pawns for the sake of the greater good. “An empty mind is a loyal mind” is almost the exact opposite. It’s like somebody read too much Orwell and not any 40k and just grafted the two together. The Inquisition doesn’t stand for the manipulation of the ignorant. They stand against powers that they believe manipulate the ignorant (though they often admittedly do so in a very… Read more »
Agree with the voice acting, but i felt really bad for it, made me think they are not at the level.
About the scripts… yes, none of those shows solemnity that 40k deserves, i think that’s another thing that Bioware will do better if they hire the right people, hope the black library writers jump to that one.
I hope to see some nid and necron invasions like NPC , makes no sense to play a necron or a nid really ( no matter how much self aware the necrons are now ). Tau tau tau…. not until 2017.
Can we expect to see micro transactions complete with GW prices? After all, you want the entire GW experience when you play.
Oh wow. The very first image on the front page for Behaviour Interactive is a promotion for a game called “Doritos Crash Course 2”, and the only MMO they’ve ever worked on is Nickelodeon’s Monkey Quest, the “#4 MMO for kids in the US”. Lots and lots of really regrettable movie tie-in games. They’re responsible for the PSP port of the game, Dante’s Inferno, which is a truly abysmal game. Also, a “takes place in London” version of Zynga’s Mafia Wars which is a variant of Zynga’s Dope Wars which is actually a blatant ripoff of the game, Drug Wars,… Read more »
Spyro. I don’t know who Spryo is or why I can’t edit comments.
http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/954/feature/7493/Warhammer-40000-Eternal-Crusade-There-Is-Only-WAR.html Well it seems i was pretty wrong and this might be actually a very good news indeed ( no, not ironic, check the link and read it COMPLETLY ). Where the rage will be is in the “Ork Boyz f2p, all the others p2p”. In my perspective this is a really good choice and is very well explained. An Ork boy is not as power as a Space Marine and they want to show this by giving the people that want to pay the access to the big factions. But also there is not as many SM as there… Read more »
“By the command of the Inquisition the following content has been classified as HERESY”
A pretty good first impression in my book
Although I am more interested in Slytherines Warhammer 40k: Armageddon
Finally a turn based Warhammer game again (That it reeks of Final Liberation does not hurt one bit)
GW have really stepped up their game in the computer game lately (although the companies are rather unknown, at least they don’t have a bad reputation)
I like the sound of this MMO a bit more then DM. Sounds like they took the idea off the awesome Space Marine game and ran with it. Kudos!