With various degrees of success, the Warhammer 40K franchise has developed real-time strategy, turn-based strategy, first-person shooters, and third-person character action games. So what does the Games Workshop brand expect to get next?
Caged Element (GRIP: Combat Racing) and publisher Plaion are developing a car combat game called Warhammer 40,000: Speed Freeks. You race with either the AI or with online players across a vast network of tracks.
The game will be available on PC, with a beta playtest session right now for everyone! Below is a trailer and Orkspeak-laced overview:
- Class-Based Racing and Shooter Gameplay: Choose from various classes of vehicles including killers, tanks and support wagons, each with distinct abilities that target a variety of playstyles. With 7 unique vehicles, you’ll always find one that caters to your current gaming mood—especially if it’s just wanting to make things go BOOM!
- Intense Multiplayer Mayhem: Bring out your biggest and flashiest Dakka and fight your way to the finish in chaotic 16-player matches. Featuring a variety of badass vehicles to choose from and richly decorated maps to battle in, no two matches ever turn out the same.
- Epic Game Mode: Speed Freeks’ Alpha game mode is a hard-hitting combat racing conquest that ends in a glorious sprint to the finish. A fresh take on the vehicular shooter, this mode has players racing to capture points where they battle it out for the bigger score, and has them pushing the pedal to the metal in a race towards the finish.
- Snazzy Visuals: Feast your eyes on speedy and explosive chaos powered by Unreal Engine 5. Live out your ultimate Warhammer 40,000 Ork gaming fantasy like never before with authentic vehicles and characters blazing through the grim dark future.
- Speed and Dakka: DO WE GOTS TO SPELL IT OUT FOR YA?!DIS IS WHERE YOUZ GET ALL DA SPEED N’ DAKKA YOUZ CAN GET YER MITTS ON! NOW GO N’ GET IT YA GITS!
