The planet of Luteus Alpha has been generating essential supplies for the battles happening in the Armageddon sector for many years. Both the legendary Warboss Ogruk Gutrekka and many others are drawn to the planet. Your most priceless hair squig was taken by Gutrekka as soon as she arrived on the planet. You’ve vowed to do whatever it takes to get your hair squig back and establish your strength out of rage. Your journey on Luteus Prime officially starts now.
A hand-drawn 2D action-adventure game called Warhammer 40,000: Shootas, Blood & Teef will take you on a crazy voyage filled with violence, gore, and explosions. Battle Humans, Orks, and Genestealer cultists as you krump your way through the hive city of Luteus Prime in order to eventually wrest your luscious hair squig back from the Warboss Gutrekka!
Game Features:
- Authentic 2D side-scrolling fun, replete with humorous one-liners, gory kills, and hilarious dialogue!
- Choose your class from one of four distinct characters, each with a special toolkit consistent with the Warhammer 40,000 mythology.
- With a wide variety of weaponry at your disposal, cause chaos. Obtain up to twenty additional weapons to diversify your arsenal. It’s impossible to have too much dakka!
- Waaagh! at the appropriate moment! Rain destruction and carnage on those little ‘umies.
- The most powerful empire in the Warhammer 40,000 cosmos is up for the challenge. Win, bring down the world, and take control of your very own Waaagh!
- By eliminating compelling bosses, reaching milestones, or swapping Teef at the Mekboy shop, you can earn headgear. Teef is gathered by ploughing through the narrative.
- A side-on world has an incredible sense of depth thanks to gorgeous hand-drawn scenery.
- Take a break from the action to enjoy some captivating cinema.
- Enter Luteus Prime in solo mode, or form a group of up to four Ork Boyz to enjoy some fun together! Both local cooperative play and internet multiplayer are options.
- Decide who is the worst Ork in the Warband by brawling it out with your competitors in an all-out epic battle! Both locally and online, four boys can fight it out in the arena.
- Deon van Heerden’s incredible heavy metal score will rock you out of your socks.
- There will indeed be explosions. a lot of them, actually!
Thoughts
Running about shooting or krumping stuff with your friends while essentially soaring through the 40k cosmos is the gameplay loop. The gunplay is very enjoyable, and the action is incredibly fluid. Often, as you dispatch wave after wave of enemies, you catch yourself grinning broadly (like your Ork).
Each intriguing weapon option costs a reasonable amount of teef and significantly alters how you approach fights. I liked experimenting with various weapons to see what was effective and to usually flip between them in order to be the nastiest work possible.
I’m not sure which was my favourite, but it kept the loop interesting and made it enjoyable to play even for a few hours at a time.
Although the pace of the game is not particularly quick, it is fascinating and there is always a squig to discover, humie to krump, or shooting to be done.
Let’s move on to the cons (wow, there are more of these than I’d realised): I know this game has only recently been launched, but I’ve consistently had trouble resuming from checkpoints every time my entire squad is eliminated. The loading screen does appear, but the progress metre frequently freezes at around 70%.
– Moving objects in the level, such as trains and conveyor belts, occasionally appear in various locations for different players. This makes it challenging to maintain your dakka in position and, in more challenging stages, may even result in getting you kilted.
– Throughout the entire time I played the game with my pals, the classes couldn’t differentiate themselves. There were few areas where we even made a conscious effort to adopt the roles in order to maximise their synergy, but it was nearly always preferable to just enhance movement and understand boss patterns.
– The objectives in some places are not well marked. We frequently wondered what to do for a short while at the end of each level before realising that the entire party needed to move to the far right or was required to gather in a chamber or on a lift.
– The campaign mode, in my opinion, doesn’t fit the price tag (I blame GW’s licence cut), which is a slightly more difficult problem. There are only about 3 hours of enjoyable gameplay left, and since there are no more enjoyable game types or stories to complete, the player experience ends there.
– And last, one of the members of our squad (Evil Sunz) simply became invisible to us for most of the playthrough due to an odd bug. Without Discord’s assistance, it would have taken us hours to try to form groups in the proper locations to advance the level because it was so difficult to keep track of where he was.
