New Warhammer 40,000 Boltgun Trailer Reveals Retro Shooter's Release Date
Classic and gory.
Auroch Digital released a new trailer for Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun, revealing the game's release date: the retro shooter will be available from May 23 on Steam, PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch.
"Load up your Boltgun and plunge into battle headfirst! Experience a perfect blend of Warhammer 40,000, classic, frenetic FPS gameplay and the stylish visuals of your favourite 90’s retro shooters."
The developers shared that Boltgun features a modern take on past classic shooters, where enemies "were simply dropped into the environment for you to shoot like a very sophisticated target range." There are also areas where waves of enemies are dynamically spawned by AI "to seek the most exciting positions to challenge the player."
Auroch Digital tried to replicate the "vintage aesthetics" of old classics by "taking the best of modern technology and slamming it, pixels first, into the old ways". The studio took a unique approach to its characters and objects: "animated models are “rendered out” as digital images, then virtual cameras take shots of the models from eight directions as they cycle through the frames of their animations." Then the images are imported into Unreal Engine and stitched back together into 2D flipbook animations.
"Every animation is collected together and data for the enemy they represent is created to allow our artists to tweak them and set where in the animation an enemy should deal damage, make a sound, or lob a fireball."
In Boltgun, you will play as a battle-hardened Space Marine on a mission across the galaxy and get to fight against the Chaos Space Marines and daemons of Chaos.
Features:
- Dive into a visceral combat experience, complete with viciously satisfying gunplay, high mobility and buckets of blood to reward your skills
- Dominate the battlefield with the awesome firepower and heavy metal of a Space Marine’s devastating arsenal
- Experience the ultimate homage to retro shooters, blending stylish visuals with fluid, modern FPS gameplay
Learn more about the game here, pre-order it on Steam, and don't forget to join our 80 Level Talent platform and our Telegram channel, follow us on Instagram and Twitter, where we share breakdowns, the latest news, awesome artworks, and more.
Keep reading
You may find these articles interesting
