8 Video Games Where Everyone Loses
1. Warhammer Vermintide Franchise
Alright,
I’ll grant you we’re going a little bit meta-narrative in this
return to the Warhammer universe, but considering the first game is
subtitled ‘End Times’ it should really come as no surprise.
Taking
the horde shooter mechanic popularised by the Left 4 Dead games,
Vermintide throws the player into a horrendous world overrun with
Skaven; monstrous rodent-like creatures fuelled by blind hunger and
dynamic AI designed to rush and overwhelm the player at every
opportunity. Joined in the sequel by the disease and decay
worshipping Rotbloods, Vermintide is not short of a few bodies to
hurl in the way of your blood-caked weaponry.
Following
the Five Heroes of Ubersreik, tasked with eradicating the Skaven
threat, these champions are pitted against the Chaos worshipping Grey
Seer Rasknitt, who plans to open a portal to summon the full force of
the chaos army to bear upon the people of Ubersreik.
Despite
their success at stopping Rasknitt, this story in the wider context
does indeed exist within ‘The End Times’, a cataclysmic war
between the combined forces of the world’s kingdoms and the
oncoming threat of Chaos. In the always delightfully chipper theme of
Warhammer, The End Times do indeed live up to their name and signal
an ultimate victory for Chaos, wiping out The Warhammer World, and
the freshly saved Ubersreik with it.