From those ten minutes reading character and ability descriptions I could see the potential and value in picking the right hero for the right mission. Not knowing I could later switch characters with zero repercussions, I spent a good ten minutes agonising over which charachter to pick before giving up and going with the first character listed: a generic swordsmen with a special ability healing and enemy knockback buff know as Markus Kruber, the Empire Soldier. Setting it apart from Left4Dead is the RPG character specialisms that are available to take into battle. In that sense Vermintide II delivers the same core experience of four survivors (now a mix of fantasy wizards, elfs and knights) fighting across lush locales against the hordes of evil (orcs and mainly rat-people, it seems). I wasn’t looking recapture those memories but I was definitely looking to play something similar in order to enjoy the mechanics of a solid group cooperative experience with your good friend and mine, Rick Lane. Now, I preface talking about Warhammer: Vermintide II with all of the above in order to say it doesn’t really affect my experience. The friendships survived, I’m happy to say, but I recognise I failed to replace those gaming hang outs especially when it comes to cooperative games. While we each departed for different parts of the UK after graduating university the reality is that my departure from regular console gaming for the hallowed PC master race created a break in hardware that broke our regular gaming sessions. The details have become jumbled but that period of cooperative gaming will always be a golden memory for me to treasure. We may have shot him, a noble sacrifice that we were forced to make of course, in order to survive ourselves. I don’t remember whether it was this night that McGill and I finally made it to the rescue vehicle only for Dave to fall on the vehicle’s open ramp succumbing to the zombies that quickly engulfed him. Shout out to the night we spent 4 hours playing the final stage of Blood Harvest on Expert difficulty over and over and over again! I can vividly see every nook and cranny of that stage: from the canyon alleyway through the corn field and into the climactic fight for survival in the two storey farmhouse waiting for the rescue vehicle to arrive. Dave, McGill and I were flat mates and good friends at that but given the chance we would abandon each other and go off to our own bedrooms, turn on our Xbox 360’s and reconnect virtually in the B-movie pulp world of Left4Dead.
I will never forget the countless evenings I spent with Dave, McGill and Ali (or an AI bot if Ali wasn’t free) fighting against the countless hordes of zombies and having an absolute blast. For me the game represented good times with great friends.
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