

The Gutter Runner is an exact match for Left 4 Dead's Hunter zombie, leaping from the shadows, pinning you to the ground and slashing at you repeatedly with enormous blades. Each character has a distinctive personality, and the voiceovers are both relevant to the action and often very funny. In many key respects it's essentially a cover version, right down to the enemies that map exactly onto the "special infected" from Valve's series. And, make no mistake, Vermintide isn't just a game inspired by Left 4 Dead, or in a similar style. Seeing how Valve is clearly in no rush to follow up Left 4 Dead 2 (it's been six years, folks) that means there's a definite need to be filled. It's Left 4 Dead, but with ratmen instead of zombies and dwarves, witches and knights instead of survivors with shotguns. In gameplay terms, that means Vermintide is incredibly easy to describe.
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Playing as one of five heroes, together with three other players (or AI bots), you must tackle a series of missions to try and restore order. The original's fantasy setting has rarely been visited in games, and the extravagantly punctuated Warhammer: The End Times - Vermintide does a good job of showing us what we've been missing.Īs that verbose title suggests, this game is set during the last desperate struggle of the city of Ubersreik as it is overrun by the Skaven, a race of savage rat-people. Gaming has focused so much on the Warhammer 40k universe, with its zealous militarism, sci-fi trappings and outlandish weaponry, that it's easy to forget that there was always normal Warhammer as well.

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