Based on the popular Games Workshop game 'Epic', Warhammer Epic 40000: Final Liberation follows the story of Imperial forces attempts to re-capture a world from the insidious forces of Orks that have been a constant and irritating thorn in the Imperiums side.
Boasting both a single player campaign mode, and a customizable multi-player mode that can see up to 4 players fielding veritable hordes of troops, legions even. The sheer scale of the forces involved means that a single turn could take upwards of 20 minutes to complete.
Based on the popular Games Workshop game 'Epic', Warhammer Epic 40000: Final Liberation follows the story of Imperial forces attempts to re-capture a world from the insidious forces of Orks that have been a constant and irritating thorn in the Imperiums side.
Boasting both a single player campaign mode, and a customizable multi-player mode that can see up to 4 players fielding veritable hordes of troops, legions even. The sheer scale of the forces involved means that a single turn could take upwards of 20 minutes to complete. And with battles that will last in excess of 7 turns quite casually, be prepared for a few hours in your chair as you seek to crush, or repair, the Imperial forces.
Game play is archaic in comparison
to such modern creations, such as the new Dawn Of War series, but Warhammer Epic 40000: Final Liberation is not without it's charm. Where Dawn Of War is focused on smaller, localized units, Warhammer Epic 40000: Final Liberation is based on entire legions and companies of troops, allowing players to field entire armoured companies, Space Marine Chapters and even Titan Legions with impunity.
The single player campaign follows a rather basic region capture system, with a resource input in relation to this capture. Game play can be long and tedious, but not without it's charm. The ability to customize individual Titans, ranging from the Warhound through to the Warlord variety, with all the various weaponry featured in the Epic wargame, adds hours to the gameplay, as players strive to find the perfect combination of weapons, tanks, Titans and fighting men.
A downside is the relatively downscaled colour scheming and modeling. The Titans are the perfect example of this, their modeling being a poor reflection of the actual Titans for which they are based on. However, with this aside, the over all unit design is relatively accurate and given the small size of the units in-game, surprisingly detailed in comparison to the models for which Warhammer Epic 40000: Final Liberation was based on.
Overall, Warhammer Epic 40000: Final Liberation is a worthy game for any fan of the Warhammer 40k universe, and remains as popular now as it was then.
