Leaked Warhammer 40K action-shooter footage heads to YouTube

Posted Sep 5th 2008 9:00PM by John Callaham
Filed under: Action, Trailers, Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War II

THQ has had the Warhammer 40,000 PC/Video game license from Games Workshop for several years now. They company has released a poorly received first person shooter (Fire Warrior)and a highly regarded RTS game series, (Dawn of War) based on the Warhammer 40K property with Dawn of War II and an upcoming MMO already announced.

However it looks like the publisher is planning to bring the franchise into yet another genre; the third person action shooter game. Leaked footage found its way to YouTube which displays about nine minutes of footage (taken from an Xbox 360 version) from what is titled Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine. The footage show some early but what looks like highly playable scenes from the game as the Space Marine of the title deals a lot of damage to its foes with some impressive looking graphics. No developer was revealed for the game and there's no indication when it might be released.

[Via Shacknews]

Tags: games-workshop, thq, warhammer-40000, warhammer-40000-dawn-of-war-ii, warhammer-40000-space-marine

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

IgoCheckout.com has great prices!Posted at 9:29AM on Sep 6th 2008 by KeKo

It's being developed by THQ Studio Australia. See tsumea.com. Posted at 10:43AM on Sep 6th 2008 by Khakionion.com

Wow, they act like they're the first ones to EVER use those "cinemaction" things... What douchebags.Posted at 3:55PM on Sep 6th 2008 by Drago Dracini

Drago, man, calm down, it looks like they are just highlighting their use in this game. Seems to be a nice spin on gears of war situated in the W40K universe. Looks cool to me :).Posted at 4:39PM on Sep 6th 2008 by Gripen40k

Although it does look very GoW (and I wonder how it'll fare after Gow2), as a WarHammer fan from back in the day, I'm looking forward to it very much - GoW was very good, and there's no shame in ripping it off a little bit. There's only so many ways you can skin a cat (or Chaos Marine).Posted at 8:12AM on Sep 7th 2008 by Luc