Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader Review: "Gets What Warhammer 40,000 Is All About"

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has been a continual presence in the world of video games. From early titles like or, which received a revival just last year, through to recent shooters like, there’s been an army of games of varied quality over the years. Enter from Owlcat Games, taking a RPG approach for the far future setting.

sees the player put into the shoes of a titular Rogue Trader: individuals with a remit for more freedom than the usual humans found in the grim darkness of the Imperium of Man. The player explores the Koronus Expanse, a part of the galaxy away from the strict control of Imperium where xenos (alien) contact is rife. There’s also the matter of the dark forces of Chaos to contend with, as the Rogue Trader solves a wider dangerous conspiracy.

One of the most impressive things about is the way that it translates the setting of into a role-playing game. The tabletop game’s combat focus means that the freedom of an RPG could feel quite jarring, but the game utilizes the use of the Rogue Trader’s freedom well, as the player travels around the expanse solving quests along the way.

also gets the intricacies of the Imperium in its storytelling. It’s a corrupt system filled with a mixture of different levels of dogmatic faith for the Emperor of Mankind, and these factions are constantly at odds with one another — and this translates well into the game’s equivalent of the usual morality system seen in RPGs. The player can choose a path or try to balance different ones, having an impact on their companions and what options come up throughout the plot as a whole.

Make use of your skill at trading to build connections with the trade network of the Koronus Expanse. Trading isn’t as simple as other C-RPGs, and requires the building of