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\nWarhammer 40,000 is getting a retro first-person shooter heavily-inspired by old-school Doom.\n<\/p>\n

\nBoltgun is a single-player FPS in which you play a Space Marine who shoots the living crap out of all the Chaos Space Marines and daemons of Chaos sprites who dare get in his way. Doomguy would be proud!\n<\/p>\n

\nThe fun video, below, starts off looking back at the ’90s and retro Warhammer 40,000 miniatures through a pair of nostalgia goggles before ripping into some quickfire gameplay:\n<\/p>\n

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Warhammer 40,000 is getting a retro first-person shooter heavily-inspired by old-school Doom. Boltgun is a single-player FPS in which you play a Space Marine who shoots the living crap out of all the Chaos Space Marines and daemons of Chaos sprites who dare get in his way. Doomguy would be proud! 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