From the Archives Welcome to ‘From the Archives’ a look back at old products from GW that are lost to the mists of time and fond memories. Last issue we looked back at Chaos Gate and keeping in that theme this issue is going to be on another computer game Final Liberation: Warhammer Epic 40,000. The game was released in 1997 so only a year before Chaos Gate, the graphics of Final Liberation where not as good as chaos gate, but the game play was so radically different, where in chaos game you had at max a company of space marines and that was only on the final level in Final Liberation you took command of entire armies of guards men as well as the most powerful Titians that the imperium has to offer.
The campaign features a non-linear story line where the player controls the Imperial forces to liberate the planet of Volistad from the menace of Ork raiders. The territory controlled at each stage determines the points available for the replacement and repair of units that you command . The winning of certain maps granted access to certain specialist units such as super heavy tanks or Titans. It also includes live action cut scenes mixed with CGI.
The game like all 40k based games of the time war turned based, with the imperial commander you the player taking your go to command what forces you had , in the first few missions this was a detachment of space marines and then you moved on to the imperial guard as the space marine up and leave , as they seem to do when every they feel like it in 40k. The marine forces were more to get you use to the game play and how the system worked, it was heavily based on the table top version of epic so it was a great way to learn how to play that game or at the very least the basics. Once you had done your missions with the marines the real fun began with as with taking control of the guard the guns got bigger, from leman russ battle tanks right up to shadow sword supper heavies , in latter mission you got Titians which was so much fun it was unreal, please remember this is mid 90’s so we did not have the stuff like there is today, some of you reading this might not have even been born when this game came out so gives us old vets a break, we liked the old day