
Ten different weapons range from Assault Cannons to Lightning Claws, although some have limited amounts of firepower (Heavy Flamers, Grenade Launchers and Assault Cannons). Should any member of your squad perish, you'll have to continue the next mission shorthanded! You'll also have to be on the lookout and protect your team from five types of enemies: pure-strain Genestealers, Hybrids, Magi, Patriarchs and Chaos Space Marines. Missions range from sealing off doors to prevent Genestealers from escaping to placing explosive charges in key sectors, or carrying specific objects from one part of the ship to another. Once finished, the game will switch to a first-person perspective looking through the visor of your Tactical Dreadnought armor. While you begin the game as a rookie, you will eventually command a team of your own, issuing orders on the overhead tactical screen to carry out the mission at hand. You must embark on a campaign to board a Space Hulk and eliminate its deadly cargo. Space Hulk: Vengeance of the Blood Angels is a part tactical strategy and part first-person shooter.

The plan calls for intercepting their ships known as Space Hulks, before they can infest an unsuspecting planet. Since they reproduce by finding other races to serve as hosts, they are an aggressive threat that must be stopped at all costs. Your mission? To eradicate man's greatest foe: the Genestealers, a purple-skinned race with razor-sharp teeth and six limbs. Various dangers now threaten the livelihood of mankind. Of course, there is a downside to expanding one's territory in the 41st millennium: alien hostility.

This invention has revolutionized space travel, allowing for great distances to be covered in a matter of hours. Under the guidance of the Emperor, the Imperium has been able to gradually expand across the galaxy using Warp Drive technology. You are a space marine commander of an elite fighting squad called the Terminators, a specialized unit that is part of the Blood Angels chapter of the Imperium.
