![]() ![]() You’ll still have your constantly-changing objectives, but there are no safe rooms here, breaking up each chapter you’ll go the full twenty-to-thirty minutes of each mission in one go. There aren’t really guns in Vermintide 2, save for one or two characters’ secondary weapons, with the majority of the combat being melee-based. That’s basically where Vermintide 2 and Left 4 Dead differ in gameplay styles. Even in the thick of the most tense battles, with dozens of enemies attacking from every angle, I couldn’t help but smile when Bardin the dwarf would shout about the elf going mad with bloodlust, when Kerillian (me, at the time) had run out of arrows and was forced to wade into the hordes with blades slashing wildly. ![]() It reminds me of the playful banter between Legolas and Gimli in The Lord of the Rings movies, which works just as well here when you’ve got an elf and a dwarf fighting side-by-side. The characters are wonderfully voiced and written though, as they constantly chatter away during the course of each skirmish. At most, it serves as a vehicle for the missions that make up the game. Lost yet? You might be glad to know that the story isn’t really the most important part of Vermintide 2. With Ubersreik destroyed, they are now forced to take refuge in an old keep, plotting their rebellion against the combined might of Clan Fester and the Rotbloods. After attempting to open a portal that would allow the combined forces into Helmgart, the resulting failure’s explosion frees our heroes and they fight their way out of the Skaven lair. The five heroes of Ubersreik (that’s the five playable characters from both games) have been captured by the leader of the Skaven Clan Fester, a horde of giant rat men for those not in the know, and the Skaven have joined forces with the Rotbloods, a Chaos warband. Trying to understand the convoluted twists and turns of Warhammer stories is a Herculean task at this point, but the Vermintide games are set during a time that would eventually see the destruction of the Warhammer World. It’s by no means perfect, but it’s an incredibly fun challenge. That aside however, I’ll just go ahead and say that you need to play this game. Considering it hit half a million sales in its first week on Steam, I’d say the console versions should come sooner rather than later, to avoid the mistakes of porting the first game too late. Warhammer: Vermintide 2 has dropped the End Times subtitle and entered the fray on PC, with console versions due a little later. Very few people knew about this little gem of a game, so its similarity to L4D passed us by. You know what, though? There has basically been a Left 4 Dead 3 since 2015, when Warhammer: End Times – Vermintide was released on PC, then a year later it came to Xbox One and PS4. Well, we all know about Valve and its difficulty with threes. How often have we heard that question? It’s been almost nine years since Valve’s multiplayer zombie sequel released on PC and Xbox 360, and it’s still hugely popular today, yet there’s no sign of a third game in the series. ![]()
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