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To be honest, slapping a few skins onto an existing engine and making it play some existing board game rules does not a game worth €28 make. I understand most of that will be a license fee but really, this is kind of ridiculous.
weren't they going to put out an iOS version? I hope that one will be somewhat more reasonably priced but I fear the worst, TBH.
really do like the idea but I can get XCOM for barely over half of this on iOS and that's pretty premium as far as both games and prices go.

This looks much better than I expected, but is still not worth 30 USD. I'd get it for half that.

 mattyrm wrote:
Could be totally awesome. I used to love the amiga version, so a new one would be bad ass!

The original is Abandonware, so if you have that need for nostalgia you can get it anywhere.

I'd honestly price this in the same market as PopCap's offerings. This looks like it could run without issue on a tablet.

 Bolognesus wrote:
To be honest, slapping a few skins onto an existing engine and making it play some existing board game rules does not a game worth €28 make. I understand most of that will be a license fee but really, this is kind of ridiculous.
weren't they going to put out an iOS version? I hope that one will be somewhat more reasonably priced but I fear the worst, TBH.
really do like the idea but I can get XCOM for barely over half of this on iOS and that's pretty premium as far as both games and prices go.

It'll be on iOS and Android as well. They hope to put it out on XBLA/PSN too, but that's still up in the air.

 Alkasyn wrote:
This looks much better than I expected, but is still not worth 30 USD. I'd get it for half that.

Think I'm probably in the same boat.. looks nice, and the multiplayer feature sounds interesting (a necessity after you get through those campaign missions) but I'd much rather play the actual thing around the table with a friend in person.

Well, I think we'd all rather play with a friend in person, but there isn't always a Space Hulk-playing/owning friend in the vicinity unfortunately!

released in about 8 hours , 'ccording' to Facebook anyway.

I'll likely be getting this one after its significantly discounted. Personally, I would have preferred if slavish dedication to the exact mechanics of the board game was just a niche option in the game and not the basic premise. That said, I'm willing to give it a try eventually but not at the price they said they'd be charging (similar to how I treated the Ultramarine movie and I certainly don't regret missing out on the full price of that one). In the meantime, I'll have to just scratch my space hulk itches with the minis in normal 40k and youtube videos like this.

http://youtu.be/P4tmNhtf8ks?t=5m26s

I was going to buy it when it hits Steam Sale, but I figure I'll play it a bit, and it'll certainly be easier than getting a game of the boardgame, since my group always wants to play other things. I wonder if I'll shake off all that rust, and become quite good at SH, thus ensuring that my friends never want to play me again...

I'm hoping for either simple mods to change the Termies' livery (as seen in Space Marine) or inexpensive DLC.

In one of the tech convention videos from earlier this summer during which they play the game and interview one of the devs, they confirmed that you'll be able to download different chapters as DLC but they didn't comment on the price.

Is there hot seat? Can 2 people play on the same computer?

From the dot-points:

Multiplayer head-to-head recreating the board game experience against a friend! Get in the hot seat and battle it out with a friend.

"We didn't have time to put the walking animations in..."

If he admits that, I wonder what else is broken.

$30.00 for an incomplete game...

 Goat wrote:
"We didn't have time to put the walking animations in..."

If he admits that, I wonder what else is broken.

$30.00 for an incomplete game...

What do you mean? I'm prettty sure there is walking animations in it now, there wasn't when they demonstrated the early beta.
I will most likely be reading a review or two before buying this, but if it's even remotely good, I'll probably be buying it.

 Azazelx wrote:
From the dot-points:

Multiplayer head-to-head recreating the board game experience against a friend! Get in the hot seat and battle it out with a friend.

I took that as a figure of speech, so not sure if that ment, 2 people on one computer.

This is priced excellently. I will certainly be picking this up when I get paid.

Can't wait to give it a go.

DId they manage to get a level editor into the game?

I got it. Well I guess I pre-ordered it since I can't install it yet. So my question is since I am new to using Steam, did I pre-order it and get the bonus stuff?

Also how will I know when I can install it? Never pre-ordered anything .

It might just auto download if not click on Space Hulk on the steam menu.
It should have an option to download once unlocked

Went to the Steam forums, it seems nobody has the game yet. No reviews either.

Not being able to download yet, I can understand, glitches what not, but no reviews? Usually when you get a movie or game come out with not allowing any reviews mean it's a bad movie game. Now I am starting to get a bit worried. Usually you get reviews out before the release to hype it up.

Anyone able to install the game yet?

Rik from 40kradio just posted on fb that he downloaded it... can't find it for ios yet though...

Downloading now. Quit Steam, then restart it. Should be able to install it. I am installing it for Mac if that makes a difference.

Hope this is all sorted then, via Facebook

Seems Steam is "doing something". Game went live, but not downloadable. We poked them

But other people seem to be able to access/download the game now.

Well I folded and have bought it. £23 a little pricey for what essentially is just going to be the one player game against mediocre AI (if it follows the Blood Bowl example).

At about 20% download at the time of writing.

Have to admit the 'no copy available for review' is usually a reason for alarm bells (think most recently about Colonial Marines, although this has been a tactic of publishers knowingly releasing a stinker for some time) but I'm hoping in this case it's the fact that it's a small publisher, or GW's twattish policy towards marketing/new releases.

On Mac boo pro, seems ok so far. Tried the hot seat, and it's buggy. Can't get past turn 3 genestealer turn. Nothing happens.

Single player seems ok. I keep dying all the time. LOL.

Just like the board game so far. Trying to play genestealer in single player, don't think I can. So far it's ok, I can see it getting repetitive though.

Looks like no iOS version for now, and not even any word on when it may be released. That's a bit of a piss off, they should have clarified that to fans.

Ah well, Plants vs Zombies 2 it is lol

After playing this for an hour or so:
- you get 3 prequel missions that serve as a tutorial for the game. All of this is based around the 'Sin of Damnation' campaign from the board game, and these missions are stripped down versions of those. Fun to play even if you know what you are doing. You then go into the campaign 'proper' which again are the missions from the boxed game.
- Graphics are nice, isometric view with limited zoom/rotation. The marines are exact copies of the miniatures (names too), IIRC down to scrolls/pendants on them and the silly winged chalice thing on the top of Lorenzo that everyone I know removed from the model
- nice animation, a little bit basic in this day and age but the good news is this should be playable on even older computers with limited graphics cards. Camera zooms in complete with catchphrase when something is killed. Bolt guns make a nice sound, voices make James Earl Jones sound like a castrato (kind of laughed as a marine calmly intones 'avenge my death my brothers' while a genestealer is ripping his head off!)
- Nice little touch with the 'undo' button - anyone who accidentally tried to move a troll through several tackle zones in the BB game will be glad of this!

A tentative overall view so far - it's fun, but with nothing like the depth (or as polished) as the Blood Bowl game. No doubt the multiplayer will give it some longevity, although this has already made me think about playing the actual game again!

Anybody else having trouble "cleansing" the dead Techmarines? I've tried shooting them with the flamer & autocannon as described but nothing happens...

IT does work, it just doesnt update the quest log. IT'll complete when you've dakka'd both though.

I thought it to be pretty boring, slow-paced, and not worth the price tag. I never played the board game.