The marines are chatty, but their dialogue is stitched together from samples. Everything's stuttery and enemies awkwardly pop into rendered CG when they're close enough for a melee animation. The big problem with Vengeance of the Blood Angels is that it came out when 3D graphics and CD audio were new and experimental and rarely any good. Once you do take command, you lead them by pausing to drop commands on the map, which is less innovative than its 1993 predecessor, which had a realtime/turn-based combo, and less satisfying than having full control over them. It's a first-person shooter where you control a squad, except the first six missions of the campaign don't actually let you. This was the second attempt at adapting the board game Space Hulk, and the worst. Space Hulk: Vengeance of the Blood Angels (1996)

In Talisman: The Horus Heresy someone might find a card that gives them +1 to the Resource stat and consider it an exciting turn. In the original board game players got turned into toads on the regular. It's an even more desperate and serious version of Warhammer 40,000, completely at odds with a chaotic beer-and-pretzels game about chucking dice and laughing at your latest misfortune.

This videogame reskins it with The Horus Heresy, a prequel setting 10,000 years in 40K's past that's been the basis for a huge amount of novels, some of which are actually quite good. It was fantasy Snakes & Ladders with PvP. Even if the other players didn't drag you down, the luck of the cards and dice would. It was a race-to-the-center board game, half of which you spent finding a talisman to let you access the middle of the board, and the other half not letting someone else steal it from you. Games Workshop released the first version of Talisman: The Magical Quest Game in 1983.

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