SPACE HULK: TACTICS

This Hulk is less than smashing

Format PS4, XO, PC Publisher Focus Home Interactive Developer Cyanide Studio ETA Out now Players 1 (online multiplayer) The Space Hulk board game came out in 1989, halfway between the second and third Alien movies. And the venerable Warhammer 40k board game really feels like a splice-child of the two. It’s a game of claustrophobic spaces, of tactically opening and closing doors to crowd-control the alien threat, and of heavy firepower clashing with vicious predatory instinct – and this latest videogame iteration sticks to the rule book. “GUIDE TERMINATORS DOWN DECREPIT CORRIDORS WHILE ALIENS SWARM IN FROM THE DARK” Space Hulk is a tactical game designed around confinement, with attacks played out by dice rolls. Each map is a grim grid of single-tile corridors and 3x3 square rooms, brimming with obstacles like gun…

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