Rahul Kohli has made his love of Warhammer well-known, from his personal model-making journey to championing Henry Cavill’s Warhammer 40,000 series even earlier than Amazon truly went and introduced the rattling factor. Now, he’s getting his personal style of the 41st millennium’s grimdark future… and he’s already making his personal method in type.
Right this moment Video games Workshop and Auroch Digital introduced that Kohli would voice the protagonist of the upcoming retro-styled FPS Warhammer 40,000 Boltgun, which follows a lone Space Marine, Ultramarine veteran Malum Caedo, as he battles the forces of Chaos. The gameplay and aesthetic itself is a hybrid of Quake and Doom type ‘90s PC shooters, with trendy sensibilities—the proper form of pairing for the ridiculously over-the-top hyperviolence Warhammer has at all times trafficked in.
“I’m feeling extremely fortunate to be part of the Warhammer universe”, Kohli advised Warhammer Community. “I solely just lately grew to become a fan and had chosen my chapter (Ultramarines, as a result of I’m a sucker for the field artwork). Over the previous 12 months or so, I discovered the group to be so welcoming, it form of accelerated my love for the interest. To have voiced an Ultramarine in a primary individual shooter? I imply, I’ve form of peaked. It undoubtedly appears like the proper undertaking.”
Besides it’s not truly the proper undertaking—Kohli did that on his personal, revealing alongside the announcement he’s already put his model-making abilities to the check by making his very personal customized miniature of Caedo to go together with the information of him becoming a member of the 40K universe. A modified Sternguard Veteran mini, Kohli’s mannequin consists of swapped out components just like the beak-nosed helmet and new weapons, a pose ripped proper out of Boltgun’s cowl artwork, and even customized painted heraldry like Caedo’s identify scribed on certainly one of his shoulder pads.
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I suppose the power-fist-gauntlet has now been thrown down in Henry Cavill’s nook to color and construct a mannequin of whatever character he’ll be playing on Amazon within the close to future then? Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun is out Could 23 for PC, Xbox Collection X and S, and Ps 5.
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