Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine Interview (E3's Not Quite Over)

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Thursday, June 11, 2009

Terminator with lightning clawsVideo producer Tracy Peterson is a little bit of a Warhammer fan. And a fan of developer Relic. Which is why, when he wasn't helping us shoot footage for an upcoming Hoe Down during E3, he duct-taped a camera to Michael Donahoe's head so that Tracy could interview Quinn Duffy, lead designer on Relic's Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine.

"I used to paint and mod my own [Warhammer] models, and for the record my favorite Space Marine chapter is Blood Angels, and if they don't have lightning claw Terminators in Space Marine I'll be a little bit sad no matter HOW awesome it is," Tracy told me over email, although I prefer to imagine him saying that without pausing for breath or punctuation. "While I'm very curious how Relic are going to handle an action game, with strategy being their forté, I look at the animation and the artwork and I feel like I'm really in that game, it's the kind of thing a hardcore fan looks at and says, 'Finally, they did it.'"

I do not know what a lightning claw Terminator is (at least I didn't until consulting the Internet) but it sounds pretty cool.


 
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Comments (5)
Lance_darnell
June 12, 2009
I am looking forward to the next Hoe Down! I never got into Warhammer, but the friends I have who play MMO's [i]love[/i] it. It seems Relic is taking what distinguishes Warhammer from WoW and expanding on it.
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June 12, 2009
I don't know Warhammer at all, but this game looks gorgeous. Tracy's ESRB question was hilarious.
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June 12, 2009
This video stops streaming at about 20 secs just in front of the THQ booth, and I just reinstalled Flash to the latest version. Is anyone else getting similar issues? It is quite annoying because I want to see why Relic chose the Ultramarines. If they are going to fight the Tyranids on Ultramar that could be good, but otherwise really not an interesting chapter. Almost worse than Blood Ravens in previous games. And why go with this format of game? And why not have color palette option in Army Painter in DoW2? Is THQ taking more editorial control of content? Argh one of my favourite development houses?! I must find a way to watch!
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June 15, 2009
I've heard some people have issues with this player, I'm not seeing it in Firefox on XP. The ultramarines were chosen because they are the biggest chapter (also the most boring, I agree) and are the chapter that GW tends to use on the space marine books and model kits. In Quinn's words, they are the iconic chapeter. He also indicated that they were either one of several chapters in the game or that they would be swapped out at a later date. The language he used was "they were used for the trailer" and "final decisions about the final chapters and characters are not made". SO, in answer to your question, it sounds like a high probability that they will change the chapter at some point.
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June 23, 2009
Terminators suck. It's all about the eldar farseer warlock mashup. DOUBLE BLADESTORM FTW!

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