His next venture is to board the enormous spaceship monastery, the Martyr, which has been overrun by cultists and daemons. The story, from what I understood with my lack of knowledge, seems to pit players into the role of the previously mentioned and chosen Inquisitor, a member of the 40k army’s secret investigative battalion responsible for tracking down heretics within the universe. One thing is for sure though, unless you’re a Warhammer know-it-all, chances are a lot of what’s going on is going to go straight over your head. Neither option is final thankfully and you can switch between them at any time should you decide you’ve made the wrong choice later on. Before jumping in though you need to decide whether you are going to go with either Story mode, which is tailored towards players who aren’t very experienced in the ARPG genre, or the Challenge mode, the go-to option for veterans or those simply wanting a challenge. These include the likes of a wizard type choice in Psker, Crusader who is a brutal warrior, and Assassin – the silent but deadly class for fans of stealth. Once you’ve got all that out the way, you’ll need to decide what sort of character you want to base your playthrough on. It’s not ideal requiring extra accounts and faff on top of your already established Xbox account, but it’s hardly going to stop you if you’ve just splashed out on this new adventure.
It has looting, it has dungeon crawling, it has multiple character classes for specific builds and it has a top down isometric gameplay that the action-RPG genre is so well enamoured with.īefore getting into any of that fun stuff though, you’ll need to do something else first – create a Neocore account. In typical action-RPG fashion, Warhammer – Martyr has all the usual things you’d expect to see in any functional title in the genre. But simply copying an already established franchise isn’t enough when it comes to creating something special, so what does Warhammer – Martyr (the shortened name we’ll stick with for this review if you don’t mind) do that makes it stand out from the crowd.
With such in-depth factions, established rivalries and heavily developed stories, Warhammer is – on paper – the perfect series to introduce to a Diablo-esque action-RPG experience.
Warhammer 40,000: Inquisitor – Martyr, the full name of the latest Warhammer adventure, is essentially what you would expect to see if you mashed Warhammer into the equally gigantic world of Diablo, and whilst it’s suprising to see it’s taken so long to happen, it was inevitable that we were eventually going to get a game of this type in the Warhammer universe.