Space Hulk: Vengeance of the Blood Angels
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Developed by:
Key Game
Published by:
Electronic Arts
Released On:
01 Jan 1996
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Space Hulk: Vengeance of the Blood Angels , released on September 27th, 1997 for the Sega Saturn, is an action-packed mix of a first-person shooter and a tactical fighting game set in the Warhammer 40k universe. This sequel to the popular PC game Space Hulk from 1993 tells the story of a fierce battle between the Blood Angels Chapter of Space Marines and their arch-nemesis, the Tyranid Genestealers.
As you take control of up to ten Terminators, you must use tactical planning skills in a 3D environment, while also experiencing the thrill of first-person shooting. The game offers a perfect balance between strategy and action, allowing you to give orders and manage your team from a tactical screen or step into the fray as one of the Terminators, taking on the Genestealers head-on.
EAN-13:
5030935348972 (France)
Sega Region Code:
T-5007H-50 (France)
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Manual
Game Guide
Extracted from the original game manual
In the grim darkness of the 41st millennium, you play as a Terminator Space Marine from the Blood Angels Chapter tasked with eliminating an insidious Genestealer infestation aboard a drifting Space Hulk. This science fiction strategy game challenges players to strategically deploy these heavily armored warriors to protect the Imperium of Man from the alien race's corruptive reproductive cycle and genetic horror.
Story
Introduction
The time is the 41st millennium. For 20,000 years, mankind has expanded throughout the galaxy, aided by a phenomenal invention known as the Warp Drive, which allows huge spatial distances to be traversed in a matter of hours. Under the auspices of the Emperor, a psychic so powerful he is essentially immortal, a pan-galactic Imperium has been established, in which mankind has spread and prospered.
The defenders of the Imperium are the Legiones Astartes, or Space Marines. These are biogenetically engineered warriors of superhuman prowess, ever vigilant to destroy the many threats that face mankind across the cosmos.
Your Mission
You are a Space Marine, belonging to one of the oldest and most honorable Chapters known as the Blood Angels. Their battle honors date back as long as the Imperium has existed. You have acquitted yourself well, even among such heroic company, and it is thus that you find yourself assigned to the Terminator company.
Among the thousand warriors that compose a Space Marine Chapter, only the hundred most valorous and gifted brothers are deemed worthy of this honor. Terminators are the Chapter's ultimate warriors, encased in a huge armored suit known as Tactical Dreadnought armor. Protected by this mighty suit that makes them all but impervious to conventional weaponry, and armed with the most devastating weaponry available, Terminators stand in fear of no foe, no matter how potent.
The Genestealer Threat
Among the most insidious of mankind's enemies are Genestealers, a strange and terrifying alien race. Reptilian in appearance, they are huge, armored, six-limbed beasts, preternaturally swift and unbelievably ferocious in combat. A Genestealer knows no fear, charging into combat irrespective of any threat to its life. Incredibly hard to kill, and all too capable of inflicting death themselves, it is no surprise that Genestealers are considered one of the foremost threats to mankind's survival.
However, there is another, more frightening element to their nature. Genestealers are incapable of reproducing amongst themselves and must rely on other races to expand their population. The method they employ for this purpose is terrifying:
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Upon encountering a suitable host, such as a human being, a Genestealer will fix its piercing eyes upon it, mesmerizing it much like a Terran snake does its prey.
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While the host is thus hypnotized, the Genestealer will extend its tongue, which contains a hollow, pointed tube known as an ovipositor.
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It will pierce the host's skin with the ovipositor in a gruesome parody of a kiss, depositing a small egg-like cell that contains the Genestealer's genetic profile.
This cell behaves like a cancer, malignantly coursing through the host's system and altering its genetic profile. The victim shows little outward sign of this infection; in fact, he gains some of the Stealer's remarkable strength, resilience, and longevity, becoming healthier than he was before. The effect is only really evident once the victim comes to reproduce.
The Reproductive Cycle
Once they come to mate, the offspring of any victim is born as a Hybrid, a corrupt creature exhibiting characteristics of both Genestealer and host species. The Hybrid itself is equipped with an ovipositor, which it uses in a similar manner to its Purestrain parent.
This cycle continues, with each new generation of Hybrid resembling the host species more and more closely. By the time the Genestealer brood has reached the fourth generation, the offspring is barely detectable as alien, save for a few give-away signs such as unnaturally sharp teeth and a purplish tinge to the skin.
The offspring of this fourth generation is procreated in a conventional manner, resulting in either:
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A Hybrid
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A normal member of the host species
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A Purestrain Genestealer (the only manner in which Purestrains can be produced)
All the generations are linked in a psychic community, so Purestrains, Hybrids, and hosts all conceive of themselves as constituents of the same brood.
Danger to the Imperium
The manner in which Genestealers carry out their reproductive process is of exceptional danger to the Imperium, as whole planets can fall to the Genestealer threat. The affected humans look and act no different from normal, and the hosts are extremely secretive about the insidious curse they bear. Indeed, the first an external agency may know about the presence of Genestealers is once a whole planet has been affected by the curse, requiring total cleansing and repopulation.
Imperial authorities are thus extremely keen to terminate the Genestealer menace at source, before it has a chance to affect any nearby planet. The prime manner in which Genestealers come into contact with humanity is through the use of Space Hulks. These are spaceships of human origin which have become lost in Warp-space, either through a malfunction of the ship's Warp Drive, or just as a consequence of traveling in a medium as uncertain as that of Warp-space.
The human occupants having died, Genestealers and their Hybrid brood move in, settling down to hibernation until the drifting Space Hulk comes into contact with a species ripe for infiltration and domination. So thus it is that, whenever a Space Hulk is detected in the proximity of a human planet, the stalwart warriors of the Space Marines are detached to rid the Hulk of its Genestealer cargo, preventing any chance of another planet falling victim to the Genestealer curse. Such is the combat prowess of the Genestealer that only Terminator squads have met with any success.
Training Instructions
1. Once Bethor has flamed the two rooms, he still has to do the same with
How to Play
Starting the Game
1. Turn ON the power switch on your Segaβ’ Saturnβ’ system.
2. Make sure a control pad is plugged into the port labeled Control 1 on the Sega Saturn system.
3. Open the disc tray and place the Space Hulkβ’: Vengeance of the Blood Angels disc inside.
4. Press START to advance to the Game Setup screen.
Command Summary
The following keys are available for control:
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LEFT SHIFT
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RIGHT SHIFT
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D-Pad
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X
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Y
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Z
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C
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B
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A
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START
Your mission is to rid the galaxy of the Genestealer menace once and for all. Glory to the Emperor! Death to the Genestealers!
Quick Start
Space Hulk is a game of many parts, requiring both arcade and tactical skills. Due to the detailed gameplay it may initially be confusing as to what is going on. This section will walk you through the first mission, a relatively simple quest where you will learn some of the skills required in the game.
1. Press START to leave the loading screen. You will find yourself at the Antechamber, where the left-hand door will be open. Press A to walk through it into the Vigil, where TRAINING will be highlighted.
2. Press A again to bring up the TRAINING mission numbers, where PURGE AND RETRIEVE will be highlighted. Press A again to hear the mission briefing, which will tell you that Amael and Bethor must reach the other end of the Space Hulk, picking up a relic and setting fire to some rooms on the way.
3. Press A to start the mission. You are now controlling Terminator Amael. His role is to collect the relic. Pressing X while in the game will do two things; freeze the game (for a limited period of time, indicated by the bar on the bottom of the screen) and bring up your Tactical Map screen, where the relic is displayed as a yellow dot. Press X again to return to the Action screen.
Using the D-Pad, move your Terminator towards the relics position; Up will make your Terminator walk forward, and LEFT and RIGHT will rotate your Terminator in the respective direction. The MiniScanner in the bottom left corner of the screen will help you as you look for the relic.
The first obstacle you will encounter is a closed door. Pressing C when you are standing next to the door will open it, allowing Amael to continue in his quest. Once you have found the relic, move close to it and press C to pick it up. The relic icon will appear in the bottom right part of the screen to show that you have picked it up.
You now have to move Amael to the Space Hulk's exit. This is best done from the Tactical Operations screen, so press X to return there.
The cross-hatching at the right-hand side of the Map represents the exit. Position the cursor on the cross-hatching and press A. This will issue Amael with the Advance order, which means that as soon as the game resumes he will walk to that point automatically. You will know that the order has been issued when the number 2> appears in the Terminator's Order Panel in the top right of the screen.
Once you have issued Amael with the command, press C to take control of Bethor. His mission is to flame the four cross-hatched rooms on the Scanner. This is a good opportunity to practice using the Orders function.
1. Position the cursor at point A in the above screenshot and press A to order Bethor to advance to this point. Note that he will not move until you return to the game screen, or your allocation of Freezetime runs out.
2. Having given this first 'movement order', you need to order him to fire when he reaches his objective. Cycle through the Orders list by pressing B until the Heavy Flamer icon appears.
3. Position the cursor at point B and press A. This will order Bethor to fire his Heavy Flamer at that point.
4. Repeat the procedure at point C.
5. Now press X to return to the Action screen, and watch as Bethor carries out the orders you have issued him.
If you have no prior Terminator experience, you should report to the Librarian for training. Select the left-hand door with the D-Pad and press A. You will now face the Vigil. To the right stands the door that will take you into the presence of the Blood Angels Commander, veteran of a hundred such battles, to be briefed in your next mission against the enemies of the Imperium.
Options
It is also possible to access the options menu from the Antechamber. Press X and the options menu will appear, with the following options:
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SFX ON/OFF
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MUSIC ON/OFF
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SPEECH ON/OFF
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SOUND MONO/STEREO
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DIFFICULTY EASY β HARD
Press the D-Pad ββ to select an option. Pressing A modifies the selected option, and highlighting EXIT and pressing A returns you to the Antechamber. The Difficulty option is a sliding bar: D-Pad β to change this setting.
The Vigil
In the Ministorum of the Blood Angels there is a chamber steeped in the history of the Chapter, tended by the mightiest Librarians, psychic brothers charged with preserving the spiritual sanctity of the Chapter. Only the most worthy Space Marines are permitted entry.
Those applicants who wish to bear the honour of Terminator Armor must first undergo the Vigil, a state of deep psychic trance that allows the Space Marine to experience the lives and actions of the greatest warriors that have served the Chapter. During the Vigil, the Space
Controls
SPACE
HULK
D-Pad β
Rotate left/right
D-Pad ββ
Move forwards/backwards
LEFT SHIFT+D-Pad ββ
Look down/up
RIGHT SHIFT+D-Pad
Scroll mini-scanner display
LEFT SHIFT+RIGHT SHIFT
Re-center mini-scanner display on active Terminator
RIGHT SHIFT+A (with Assault Cannon only)
Fire on full auto
START
Pause to Quit Menu
X
Freeze time and bring up Map screen
RIGHT SHIFT+X
Map screen without freeze time
A
Fire weapon 1/Strike in close combat
C
Pick up/Drop item/Open door/Close door/Cut through door (if armed with Chain Fist)
RIGHT SHIFT+A
Self-destruct (if armed with a Heavy Flamer or Thunder Hammer)
B
Block/parry
LEFT SHIFT+D-Pad β
Toggle Terminator names on/off
LEFT SHIFT+B
Reverse cycle through commands
RIGHT SHIFT+C
Reverse cycle through terminators
LEFT SHIFT+C
Select highlighted Terminator
Enemies & Characters
Purestrain Genestealers
The pure form of the alien race, these enemies are incredibly fast and cased in an exceptionally hard carapace that can turn aside Storm Bolter shells. They have six limbs and a powerful slash can tear through Terminator armor.
Hybrids
The offspring of a host species infected with Genestealer genetic material, appearing humanoid with pale mauve skin and a bulbous head full of sharp teeth. Unlike Purestrains, they usually have only two arms and possess the ability to understand and use weaponry, often armed with Bolters.
Magus
Hybrid psykers from the fourth or fifth generation who are practically indistinguishable from humans but possess dangerous psychic powers such as Aura, Hellfire, Jinx, and Teleport.
Patriarch
An ancient Purestrain and progenitor of extended Hybrid clans who serves as the psychic monitor of the brood. He has active psychic powers including Jinx and Hellfire and will summon every GeneStealer within range if threatened.
Chaos Space Marines
Space Marine Legions that sided with Horus and now ally themselves with evil elements, serving as uneasy allies of the Genestealers on the Space Hulk. They wear less effective powered armor than Terminators and are armed with Bolters.
Items & Weapons
Storm Bolter
The standard double-barrelled automatic projectile weapon for all Terminators, firing explosive slugs called bolts. Ammunition is unlimited per mission, but excessive use causes overheating and jamming until the weapon cools down.
Heavy Flamer
A powerful flame-thrower that can set large areas of the Space Hulk abligh, often used to support squads. It carries limited fuel for only six shots before needing reloads, and can be self-destructed for a massive explosion at the cost of the user's life.
Assault Cannon
A motor-powered rotary cannon that fires explosive-tipped rounds in 10-shot bursts, capable of destroying doors and shredding enemies. It has a limited capacity of 500 rounds (50 bursts) but can be fired in a spread mode using RIGHT SHIFT and A for area denial.
Grenade Launcher
A tertiary weapon mounted in the Power Glove that carries six impact-detonating fragmentation grenades, triggered by pressing B. These grenades scatter high-velocity fragments and can be aimed at the floor or ceiling using Look Up/Look Down commands.
Power Glove
A large hydraulic fist equipped with a powerfield device that surrounds it with an aura of crackling energy, serving as the standard close-quarters complement to the Storm Bolter.
Chain Fist
A Power Fist mounting a large chainsaw encased in a powerfield, originally designed to cut through impassable bulkheads, though it is unwieldy in combat and offers little improvement in survival statistics over a standard Power Glove.
Power Sword
A sword containing a power-field device that makes the blade incredibly sharp, allowing it to slice through armor or Genestealer carapaces with ease. It is typically carried by experienced Sergeant and Captain-class Terminators as a weapon of honour.
Thunder Hammer and Storm Shield
A close-combat combination where a Thunder Hammer discharges massive energy on impact for high destructive force, complemented by a Storm Shield that generates a protective energy field. The user can also discharge all remaining energy for a thunderous explosion that kills them but devastates nearby enemies.
Lightning Claws
Four claw-like blades mounted on each arm, each sheathed in a powerfield, allowing a Terminator to fight effectively against Genestealers. They are highly skilled weapons that provide immense close-combat power by simulating the impact of multiple Power Swords simultaneously.
Heavy Flamer Reload
An object that provides a Terminator with a Heavy Flamer with another six shots of fuel.
Grenade Launcher Reload
An object that provides a Terminator with a Grenade Launcher with another six fragmentation grenades.
Assault Cannon Reload
An object that provides a Terminator with an Assault Cannon with another fifty shots of ammunition.
Power Field Generator
A portable device that projects a large conical Power Field impassable to both Genestealers and Terminators, useful for blocking entry points or covering explored areas. It activates automatically upon being placed on the ground.
Sequencor Module
An essential component of a warp drive engine that governs the ship's course through warp-space, required for activation as safeguards prevent operation without it.
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