Space Hulk: Deathwing
Space Hulk: Deathwing is a First-Person Shooter experience of Games Workshop's classic Space Hulk boardgame set in the universe of Warhammer 40,000, developed on Unreal Engine 4 by Streum On Studio, the team…
Space Hulk: Deathwing is an adventure developed by Cyanide Studio, released 14 December 2016 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Space Hulk: Deathwing is
Space Hulk: Deathwing is an adventure game developed by Cyanide Studio and released in 2016. It was published by Focus Entertainment. It is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal Engine 4.
The premise, in the publisher's words
"A colossal mass of derelict ships, asteroids and debris, known as a Space Hulk, has spilled from the Warp. It’s entered into a system where the Imperium is already beset by a Tyranid hive swarm - the immense Space Hulk is dubbed ‘Olethros’. The Dark Angels Chapter of the Space Marines answer the astropathic emergency calls from beleaguered worlds in the system. However, it’s a more important quest that ultimately draws the Dark Angels to the warzone. Azrael - Supreme Grand Master of the Dark Angels - receives dire premonitions from his psychic Librarians and dispatches a strike fleet to Olethros. Belial – Grandmaster of Dark Angels’ 1st Company, the Deathwing – is charged with boarding the…
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player. There are 23 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the Warhammer 40,000 series
Space Hulk: Deathwing is the 56th of 136 entries we hold in the Warhammer 40,000 series. The next entry was Battlefleet Gothic: Leviathan in 2016. Its critic score of 60 is 11 points below the series average of 71. The highest-rated entry is Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader - Void Shadows at 100.
How it was received
Space Hulk: Deathwing holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 15% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 8 points below the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Core i5-2400/AMD FX-8320, 8 GB RAM and 2 GB, DirectX 11, AMD Radeon HD 7870/NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660. An 8GB memory requirement is modest by current standards; most machines sold in the last five years clear it. Install size is roughly 40GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Space Hulk: Deathwing launched on 14 December 2016, within three weeks of Final Fantasy XV, The Last Guardian, Darksiders Warmastered Edition and Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 3 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Final Fantasy XV, The Last Guardian, Darksiders Warmastered Edition, Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun.
Official trailer
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