Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team
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Developer(s) | THQ Digital Studios UK[2] |
Publisher(s) | THQ |
Director(s) | Richard Badger |
Programmer(s) | Mat Draper |
Artist(s) | Richard Thomas Stuart Jennett |
Series | Warhammer 40,000 |
Platform(s) | PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows |
Release | July / August 2011 [1] |
Genre(s) | Shooter |
Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team is a top-down shooter game with twin-stick control, set in the Warhammer 40,000 future fantasy universe. Players play as Space Marines attempting to halt an Ork invasion spaceship, facing orks and, later, Tyranids. Four Space Marine classes are playable Sternguard Veteran, Techmarine, Vanguard Veteran and Librarian. The first two focusing on Shooting the later two on melee. The game supports single player and same screen multiplayer modes.[2]
The game included a bonus weapon for the use in multiplayer mode in the Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine, obtained by completing a level.[3]
The game was developed and released by THQ for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in July/August 2011. A Windows PC port was developed by UK based company d3t Ltd and released in May 2014.
Tabletop game
Kill Team is also the name of a skirmish level tabletop game set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe and published by Games Workshop.
References
- ^ "US, Japan, Australia and UK releases of the Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team video game - Giant Bomb", www.giantbomb.com, Giant Bomb
- ^ a b Wesley Yin-Poole (2 June 2011), "Warhammer 40k Kill Team announced", www.eurogamer.net, Eurogamer
- ^ Mike Richardson (29 July 2010), "Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team Date Announced", blog.eu.playstation.com, PlayStation.Blog
External links
- Video game
- Tabletop game