France-based publisher Focus Home Interactive held an event dubbed Le What?s Next de Focus in Paris, France just last week, during an unusually heavy snow storm. One of the games featured during this event was Necromunda: Underhive Wars, brought to us by developer Rogue Factor. A turn-based tactics game at heart, it also mashes in some real-time elements for good measure. We were able to take a quick look while at Focus Home Interactive?s event, and have our impressions ready for your reading pleasure.
A Dark Setting
Necromunda: Underhive Wars is based off a tabletop game of the same name, which is itself a spin-off within the Warhammer 40,000 universe. The planet of Necromunda is covered in poisonous ash wastes, thus forcing most inhabitants underground to live in Hive Cities, which are enormous man-made structures built up over thousands of years in order to support the rich and noble, who still live above the clouds in the Spire. The rest of the population live underground, in the hellish place known as the Underhive. Two main gangs have emerged from this nightmarish place: the House Goliath and the House Escher. The Goliaths are hulking, lumbering superhuman-like brutes, who value raw strength above agility. Naturally, then, the Escher members are a cast of all-female fighters, who are smaller but also faster, and are adept with pharmaceuticals and chemical manipulation. Squads can be customized in many different ways. Different loadouts can be equipped, and of course ...