In the early 90s I bought a pc gaming magazine with a demo of space hulk, installed it on all the school computers, it was a golden age.

Never thought I'd ever see 40k on this channel.

Had a friend who was obsessed with the psx version of the game. I can't remember the number of times I came over to his place only to find him on his 4th or 5th try at a stage and ending up taking an hour or more to let him finish his current run.

I remember seeing the 3do game in a magazine back in the mid 90s and thinking to myself "Games will never look better than this!" Good times. Great review. Do more games Oliver, this work well with your review/narration style.

Deathwing has the board game accurate difficulty option: if a genestealer touches you, you die. Don't know if I'd call it fun exactly, but with a full squad of players who speak the same language it's certainly and experience.

I had the 2nd edition. I loved Games Workshop as a kid with pocket money but as an adult the 1000%+ markup on plastic and metal figurines and accessories has always been rough haha.

Olive Harper making Warhammer videis, now that was unexpected

Loved the tabletop game! I even customized the rules so I could play solo.

The PS1 space hulk left a pretty strong impression on me back then. I was quite happy to finally get Space Hulk DeathWing all these many years later. One of my fav online games to play, even if it does have some serious stuttering issues.

Most excellent retrospective Sir! I have Space Hulk on PS4 if you do ever fancy a game online?

Nice change of pace. More reviews like this to compliment the movie reviews would be fine by me

I remember attempting to play the original PC version of the game. Not an experience I enjoyed. I did enjoy playing Space Hulk and Space Crusade though. … and HeroQuest, of course. All of which sit proudly on my shelves to this day.

Just a note, I'm fairly certain the commander's mouth animtion going 100mph is due to the old games of this era being tied to the CPU clock. That's also why totally unpatched original copies of the game will have sped up chipmunk voices on a modern system as well. Sound's been fixed since, but not the animation.

The 2016 Deathwing game actually got me into 40k its style and atmosphere was unlike anything I’d ever seen at the time and inspired me to build a PC lol. Both of which id say are my main hobbies. Grateful for its existence.

I forget how much I appreciate your uploads, then I see one and lose my shit

Yes yes yes! such an amazing board game! nice to see you looking at this stuff. That Amiga version was HARD! (nice music though)

I had the Deathwing- Enhanced Edition on my wishlist on Steam and got when was on discount. I love it to bits. Sure it is not perfect, but the atmosphere from a FPS perspective is bang on. The details on the environment are simply breathtaking

I loved that 1993 game, it was tense as hell. Switching between marines to hold off the Tyranids was hard work Also I'm willing to defend Deathwing (the enhanced edition). Not the deepest game but the feel of the terminators and their weaponry was awesome

Just FYI, a really good non-licensed version of this is Templar Battleforce, on phones and Steam.

I did actually have the mobile game, though not on an N-Gage, but on a regular feature phone. It did not have the first person mode, only the board game mode, but it worked really well. Back then, you would buy jar files online, so no physical copies existed.

The Dawn of War games are really good too, especially the later version where you can play a version of risk

I completed the 3d0 game without cheat codes and I want to find that version for the pc because I miss it. The secret was to not continue if you lost one of your most decorated marines and just start that mission over. The more missions a marine gets through, the more stripes he gets. The more stripes a marine has, the more ass he can kick hand to hand without dying. When you have a lot of highly decorated marines the aliens don't seem so intimidating. You also have to use good strategy which is why it's so fun!

"Space Marine! Actress, Gina Davis has been stolen! Your mission, to destroy all the 'Gina Stealers'." "But Captain... surely because the Aliens steal our genes, like a parasite reminiscent of a famous movie creature which shall not be mentioned they should be called 'Gene..." "No! It's definitely a woman's name!"

A _magazine review_ of the Space Hulk console game of the mid-90s got me into Warhammer. I found a Games Workshop, flicked through the Warhammer 40,000 rulebook, and thought "wow, _this_ is where those genestealers come from!" Opinions of and interest in Games Workshop and their games have waxed and waned over the years, but I'll always have a soft spot for those pumpkin-headed Alien knockoffs.

The panicked radio shatter and blood curdling screams from Vengeance of the Blood Angels has stuck with me all these years later.

I bought Space Hulk for Amiga because I really liked the Space Crusade board game. Played for 10 minutes and got so scared that I didn't play it again for many months 😂

GREAT video man. LOVE that you started with the old board games! I think we're from the same era, I too played the Amiga one and loved it, still holds up as one of the best. Then it was PS1 for me, which was also awesome. After that I've not found one yet that captures the same incredible tense and tactical atmosphere, as the series seems to have lost something. Or maybe I've just not come across the right version yet?

You forgot Alien Assault, a faithful fan recreation of the original board game, which had its name changed under threat from Games Workshop : www.indiedb.com/games/alien-assault I still own all my original Space Hulk stuff. I worked at a RPG store in the early 90s & bought the entire game & all expansions on a 40% off sale one time. An awesome deal. But harder to get friends to play than something like Warhammer Quest which was my group's favorite.

Seeing a review of a game I worked on on your channel is funny : D Great review as usual !

I absolutely loved the sega saturn space hulk game from the 90s. That was my first introduction to warhammer

Great review and a cool new direction for your channel

still playing the 3DO Space Hulk. I need to start the PS Vita version.

due to them adding stats in Ascension the ability to detect genestealers was linked to your terminators Awareness stat normally the starting amount was enough to sense them (get the blip on the map) but sense genestealers also got semi randomised stats and abilities due to the new mutation system sometimes you could get a very sneaky one that could only be seen by line of sight

I liked Both of Full Control's Space Hulks (and completed both); the first I liked most as it was basically the board game which is what I was most familiar with. Space Hulk Tactics is my favourite of the bunch, but took me a while to get a hang of the changes (plus predetermined 'dice rolls') and a major gameplay revelation that only came late in my campaign: just shove a spare Terminator over a Genestealer Spawn point and prevent them from creating blips at critical sections.

4:50 : Actually, the Deathwing campaign in the game is its' own thing, original to the game and does not include missions from the Deathwing expansion. 8:25 : THQs Space Hulk did come out, I had a copy archived somewhere. However, the promised version with FPS mechanics seems to have never materialized

Thanks for the new video Oliver. I love all your videos! Anyone play the Nightmare combination board /VHS game back in the early 90’s?

I remember getting this game as a kid. It was tuned down for Germany, because they thought it was too brutal for us kids. The guns didn’t kill the enemies (at least that’s what 5he handbook said, which we obviously ignored) but created black holes and stuff, to throw the monsters back into the void. Aaah, good times 😁

I had that mysterious phone version of the game! I can't remember much, but I recall being surprised at how good it was.

Thank you for a great review. I played the boardgame for years but also switched to the computer version due to games taking forever to set up and forgetting the rules. I have not played Tactics yet, but my clear fave is Ascension. I use the games video options to make the game a bit more visible. I like that it is hard to play but I also make sure to build up my spacemarines with skills before going for the top levels. You can custom your mission, which is a nice touch. Can´t wait to play Tactics! :)

Here's a bit of lessor known trivia. There was another Space Hulk style game called Dark Crusade. This was long before the RTS. The game was scrapped after only a few levels were made, some PC gamer magazines had a full page ad for it. Many of the FMV sequences were reused for Warhammer Final Liberation. It's hard to tell much from the screenshots. But I believe you were to play in a regular squad of Space Marines fighting Ork and Chaos forces.

I do think that ascension has an option to crank up brightness, so u could see layout. I'm fuzzy on that tho.

I love this! And I love your reviews!

I LOVED! Space Hulk Vengeance of the Blood Angels. I remember beating it and it took Forever! And so many play throughs. When I finally beat it I had to go run and tell my parents. They both weren’t impressed, lol. So glad I found this review of the games.

Really nice retrospective.

Great to watch during breakfast. Have you played the "Shrieks and Creaks" board game?

Special mention for the 40K video games Deathwatch (which is very much like turn based Space Hulk in many regards) though the maps are more open; Dawn of War II Retribution (which includes several missions set aboard a space hulk, and which like the original game offers options to play the mission with other factions like the Eldar or Imperial Guard); and Kill Team (where orks have repurposed part of a space hulk as an assault fortress, and where the player(s) discover the bowels are infested with tyrannids). This is completely aside from other video games inspired by Space Hulk (and/or Cameron's Aliens film more generally), of which there are quite a few!

I loved Heroquest as a kid.

I really enjoyed this episode man. I love Warhammer so when I saw you talking about Sapce Hulk, now that's my jam! Not gonna lie, didn't even know those older games existed...shame on me I guess.

I distinctly remember playing Space Hulk in an old Pre-Smart phone. I think a Sony W810i? Enjoyed it a lot for a small phone game.

I just saw on the PlayStation store (US) that both Deathwing & Tactics (PS4) are on sale as a bundle for $11.99 until October 1st, 2020. I've always been interested in this series and the price seems perfect especially after watching this video. Thumbs up so people can see this deal. Thanks!

Space Crusade was great, I still long for the days of imagination and that small world feeling and horror of reading the blurb on the back of the box. No RPG has captured that, especially today where TTRPG's are all comedy / slapstick even the spoopy ones. :(

This is the best review out - after watching, I got ahold of Ascension. Its definitely a lot of fun but needs more story

This was a most interesting yet fun idea for a video, thanks :)

Great retrospective

I still have my first edition Space hulk with the Genstealer and deathwing expansions, i also have a book that was released that added rule sets for additional races, i have fond memories of pitting my Grey knight squad against my friends Chaos terminators, and back then Grey knights were stupidly broken so campaign only ever allowed a 5 man squad of them.

great retrospective, thx

Vengeance of the Blood Angels is probably my favorite. I liked the variety of fighting against Stealers, Hybrids, Magus, Patriarchs and even Chaos Marines, fighting against a mix of some of those really had to make you play carefully. I remember beating the PS1 version's campaign a few years back, hard as nails, especially mid- late game. Additional missions also don't pull many punches either. If I have one criticism for it, is that it can become disorienting to constantly switch between different Marines and cycling through the right commands. Also think it could of done well to have some sort of Splitscreen/ Multiplayer. I'd love to see a sequel/ spiritual successor to the game one day.

Great review Oliver, thank you. From where did you source the live action footage at 2:13?

I played the old 1993 game a lot back on my ancient 386 but never made it too far. I remember playing a demo from a PC Zone cover disk that featured a pretty good (for the time) animated sequence of a boarding craft being launched at the hulk from the marine ship; I was disappointed to see that it didn't seem to have made it to the full game.

I remember them demoing the first computer game at the Golden Demon awards at the NEC. Thought it was incredible at the time.

The PC version of Space Hulk introduced me to Spaces Marines, which at that time i mistook for Colonial Marines from Aliens. The first time i read the name i thought it was a gamma guy from space that turns into a purple 4 armed monster instead of a green man. At first the image of the Terminators gave me some security and assurance until i saw the Terminators droping like flies at the (multiple) hands of the Genestealers

Very well made run through of all the games. I’ve played them all , and although I like everyone , my favourite is still the one for the Amiga 500 , closely followed by Deathwing. As a sidenote , I also like Space marine for PC. I know it’s more of a space crusade game , but it fills some of the holes in my inner 12-year old boys action thirst. Thx for upload my good man.

This was my introduction to Warhammer 40k. I have been there for the most part from then on.

Space Hulk for 3D0 was what got me into Warhammer 40k. I was a HUGE fan of Alien and this reminded me of it, only with this crazy setting that felt so foreign to anything I'd ever seen or read in comics or books. I loved the 40k universe because it was dark, but wasn't the usual Space Capitalism Goes Awry. My mom's friend lived in a tiny apartment, so she took in her friend's kid and his girlfriend who were both 18 because we had an extra bedroom. They were the ones who showed me the actual tabletop of 40k. They also tried getting me into Magic the Gathering, but it wasnt my thing. 40k was just too good to resist though, so as a tween, I learned everything I could to try and play when they had invited a couple people over for games. They humored me I think, because I never died, but I had to have been bad lmfao. When I got older and way better at art was when I started really getting into it though, pretty much just because drawing 40k stuff is fun and really satisfying.

I had it on the Sega Saturn (still got it up in the loft) could never get anywhere on it

Where does the footage from 2:19 come from? Looks awesome

in depth again .love it .in a league of your own oliver

Space Hulk II Vengeance of the Blood Angels will always be one of my favorite games of all time on the PS1. Careful planning, and trying my best to not lose a single squadmate. I ended finishing the campaign with zero deaths. Up until now, I was not able to find a Space Hulk game that brings that visceral feel of tight hallways crammed with unimaginable horror in every corner. Taking different perspectives of squadmates and ordering them to one point and pray they reach there in one piece. The recent Space Hulk and Space Hulk Tactics were okay but didn't satisfy my thirst for worthy successor for that game. The gimmick FPS cams kinda ticked me off. Deathwing, man there's so much potential but falls short.

Oliver with a 40k video? As a wise man once said: A surprise, to be sure, but a welcome one

Great review. Thanks for the effort. I'll try and find Tactics.

Love your work Oliver.

Which GW product is the film at 2:15 from ??

Absolutely LOVE it mate cheers

A very good retrospective here Oliver. I just wanted to add a note about Tactics, the servers across all platforms were taken down within 6 months of the launch of the game with no word as to why, from what I could see, which annoyed me and a friend, who both bought it for the intention of playing against each other, deeply disappointing.

Great video!!

I’ve got the original board game from 80s and the expansion set. I also had the mobile version on my phone back in 2009 ish. Used to play it on the way to work when mobile games were a fairly new thing. It was top down only view and played the same as board game was good. Was an old flip top Motorola phone lol.

I had the Amiga version of the game, but never worked out how to play it (without just dying really quickly). I don't think it was evident to me (as a child) that it was meant as a game of strategy rather than action, and it would be a few years before I picked up concepts like 'overwatch' from playing other GW games. I did more recently play Templar Battleforce on Steam though, which is not a GW game (different setting, different lore) but is clearly part of the same genre established by Space Hulk (squad of armoured super-warriors who have to slowly move around a map and make carefully use of reaction attacks to survive against a more numerous enemy).

My brother still has the old board game and the extension packs. Still love it. Still don't get how the genstealers can rip through all that armour lol. And as they can why do the humans bother?

'Space Hulk' on the Amiga was the first game i ever completed. There was a bug on disk 2 that froze the game after completing one of the levels. I had to send it to EA and they rewrote it for me. I thiught they'd replace the dusk itself, but they didn't.

Playing Space Crusade with my brothers in the early 1990's, some of my fondest childhood memories.

I bought 1995's Blood Angels with my first PC along with Duke 3D. It looked great and I liked the animations but I could never figure out how to play it. I bought Deathwing at a Steam sale a couple of months ago but I haven't played it yet.

Thank you for this!!

*I HAVE SHORT HAIR* *AND I 'M FACED WITH A FEW COMPL-EE-CAY-TIONS~* Sorry, sorry, couldn't resist the Deathwing trailer music reference. Nice to see you covering videogames for once, though.

"Death has walked here!" I'll take that medal. Suffered through the SH2 campaign at the age of 15. Tough as nails but extremely rewarding.

The second PC version, which I got on Steam, is my favourite video version of it.

5:55 hey I have this on the Sega Saturn (it's in a big VHS type case)

I was never into the whole WH40k stuff though I like the lore. I first played SH on the Amiga, then the 3DO. I bought the first SP on Steam in the 2010's and enjoyed it. Then I bought Ascension and got annoyed with the darkness and that you couldn't see the map so refunded it. Then a year later I decided to give Ascension another try and once I got used to it I loved it way more than the first modern one. Not knowing the layout of the map made the missions far more interesting. I got SH: Deathwing on Steam and loved the FPS look of it but found it too run & gun and a bit unplayable when you get swarmed. I would have loved to play it if it was slower paced and more tactical despite being a fps game. And although the graphics were beautiful, the sound was horrible. It just played sound files for weapon fire and generic wind sound file noises for air pressure. Nothing was location specific. So if you fire your gun in a massive cavernous chamber it sounds the same as if you are walking inside some claustrophobic metal pipe when in fact they should sound way different. I want game devs to take sound way, way more seriously. Then I bought SH: Tactics and thought the graphics were beautiful. But I stopped playing it because I got very frustrated by the fact that there are random warp gate portals everywhere. I found it difficult to formulate any tactics and allocate action points wisely when an enemy can just appear from a hole in the wall at lots of places. I just reinstalled Tactics and am giving it another try so hopefully the warpgate issue will be something I can look past.

The first amiga Space Hulk was insanely hard. I had a typical love-hate relationship with it. I loved the Space Hulk 2 for PC tho. Huge technological improvement.

I loved the original Amiga version. Rock hard due to RNG. I'm sure I finished it though. Last mission had lightning claw and thunder shield termies. All the combat was a dice roll so I remember having to repeat missions over and over. None of the later games have grabbed me much unfortunately

7:45 Games Master golden joystick - C'est classique. Is it true that none of the contestants got to keep the joystick?

I've never heard of or played Space Hulk. I'm familiar with Space Crusade from MB Games and I own HeroQuest.

I know I'm a bit late to the party here, but this only just came up on my recommendations, and I thought I'd add a little. The Space Hulk mobile game was released, but not in the form that you showed. It was a top down, turn-based strategy game (that looked like your screen shots, just minus the FPS element) and played... alright, if a bit slow. I don't know what platforms it was released on other than Symbian, as that's what I had it on. Hope that helps in a way, 2 years after the fact? lol

The first Full Control Space Hulk video game did have the undo function that could be 'cheesed' if the going got too hard lol ;)

2:13 what is that footage from?

Hi, I have the mobile game JAR file. It was released. It was a MIDP MIDlet. No physical release and not N-Gage specific though it should run on that. It's actually really good, it's just the regular boardgame, on a mobile.

I was actually a big fan of the Space Hulk: Ascension game. It was my introduction to the series (but I have played other 40k games before) and I loved the hardcore atmosphere. And now you can't even purchase it anymore, what a shame!

More of these please

I have space hulk 3rd edition, painted and all. I really enjoy it and wouldn't mind getting 4th edition.

I got introduced to Warhammer through the 3D0 game, and I play and collect the blood angels as a result.

Doing a bit different can be a blessing or a curse depending on the execution. Personally, I still think the Mordheim setting would make for a great setting for a action rpg like Diablo or a group RPG like Baldurs Gate 3, where you can either lead a small group around your character or go multi-player with different players characters... with a pvp option to compete against other player groups for experience and loot.