Warhammer 40,000: Shootas, Blood & Teef Is Worth Checking Out For The Music Alone
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I’ve never been one for metal – I draw my musical line at rock and punk, but it’s a different story in games. Sayonara Wild Hearts’ synth pop soundtrack is a personal favourite (and tells you a lot about me and my tastes) but on an early Monday morning sometimes you just need Mick Gordon’s DOOM Eternal soundtrack reverberating off your eardrums and pumping through your veins to get you going.
The demo for Warhammer 40,000: Shootas, Blood & Teef is short but sweet, a chaotic glimpse at the latest in a long line of licensed Games Workshop titles. It’s worth checking out if you’re a fan of the franchise – it’s a free demo, after all – but even if you don’t know a Carnifex from a Kroot, the music might just be enough to warrant giving it a go.
Video game adaptations of Games Workshop properties have been hit and miss in the past. For every Total War, Vermintide, and Dawn of War, there is a Space Wolf, Talisman, and Carnage Champions. I’m not saying Shootas, Blood & Teef will dethrone the greats, but its music alone makes it a more enjoyable experience than many of its rivals.
Shootas, Blood & Teef follows in the vast footsteps of the likes of DOOM Eternal and Brutal Legend. 40K’s Orks are as much inspired by punk rockers as they are a sci-fied Tolkien stereotype, and the game’s music embraces this with the vigour of the Waaagh! From the moment you grab your shoota and heft your choppa, an intense rock beat gets the adrenaline flowing and the tension cranking. Like a boxer psyching themself up for a fight, suddenly I’ve gone from idly sitting at my desk to being pumped full of energy and ready to crush some skulls. In the game of course.
The game is by no means perfect. It’s a bit too simple, the machine gun and automatic pistol feel too similar, and the enemies are very samey. Luckily, most of this is promised to change with the full release, which will add a wider variety of opponents, levels, and weapons. A class system and clan system will also be added so you can be a Evil Sunz Stormboy or Deathskull Weirdboy, which will change up the way your Ork looks and plays, granting bonuses, abilities, and weapon loadouts. Despite the simplicity of the demo I found myself punching through swarms of Grots time and time again just to listen to the music and reach the Boss Nob at the end. Because the boss fight is where the band is.
In a clever twist (I mean it’s barely a twist, but when you’re vibing the tunes it kinda counts), the final arena of the demo, where you face waves of Orks and a brutal Nob, is an Ork concert. A play on the classic Goff Rockers miniatures that Games Workshop released in the 90s, the band of Orks plays its intense tunes as hundreds of greenskins look on in awe. You’re at the centre of it all, fighting for your life, unloading shotgun blasts into masses of enemies and eating Squigs to stay healthy. It reminds me of a wrestling match I went to in Leeds that spilled into the adjacent metal concert. I watched men hit each other with chairs and bleed into each others’ wounds as the band raged on. As one went for the pin, the moshpit commenced.
The rocking energy of the Ork band makes the boss fight the best part of Shootas, Blood & Teef. They bring intensity and excitement to an otherwise ordinary demo, and it’s safe to say I’ll be first in line when they announce a world tour in 2023.
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