Final Liberation: Warhammer Epic 40,000
SSI, the masterminds behind the Five Star General Series’, bring their Midas touch to the Warhammer 40,000 world in the first ever video-game adaption of the Epic table-top game. With over 85 unit types, this…
Final Liberation: Warhammer Epic 40,000 is a strategy developed by Holistic Design, released 30 November 1997 on PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Final Liberation: Warhammer Epic 40,000 is
Final Liberation: Warhammer Epic 40,000 is a strategy game developed by Holistic Design and released in 1997. It was published by SSI (Strategic Simulations, Inc.). It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Set in the turbulent universe of Game Workshop's Warhammer 40,000 EPIC, Final Liberation allows you to lead the Imperial campaign in Volistad as Lord Commander Militant. Having eaten five Astropaths en-route to their new stations, Ork Warboss Skroll of the Evil Sunz clan is visited with (demented?) dreams of grandeur and conquest and launches a full-scale WAAAGH! on the Imperial colony of Volistad. With the might of the Bad Moons, the rapacious Evil Sunz and the Orkiest of all clans, the Goffs, at his disposal, Skroll quickly swept aside the defences of Volistad and took control of the planet. Leading an army of Ultramarines and Imperial guard, you must retake the system and cleanse it of…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are fantasy, science fiction and warfare. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
Where it sits in the Warhammer 40,000 series
Final Liberation: Warhammer Epic 40,000 is the fifth of 136 entries we hold in the Warhammer 40,000 series. It arrived 2 years after Blood Bowl. The next entry was Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate in 1998.
What it launched against
Final Liberation: Warhammer Epic 40,000 launched on 30 November 1997, within three weeks of Klonoa: Door to Phantomile, Diddy Kong Racing, Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers and Time Crisis II.
Released around the same time: Klonoa: Door to Phantomile, Diddy Kong Racing, Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers, Time Crisis II.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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