Doom is all about a ridiculously angry space marine carving his way through hordes upon hordes of demons. Warhammer 40,000 also happens to heavily feature superhuman Space Marines fighting an endless war against demonkind. So what happens when you combine the two?

Well, the answer is a sprite-based boomer shooter by the name of Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun! As you would expect from that description alone, Boltgun is all about shooting, melting, exploding or simply chainswordin' your way through legions of pixely and surprisingly adorable enemies spanning everything from the lowly Chaos cultists to more impressive beasties like the Plague Toads of Nurgle or Tzeentch's Lords of Change!

Since words alone tend to be fairly useless at describing fast-paced retro shooters, allow me to share with you the freshly posted launch trailer. It should give you a pretty good impression of just what Boltgun is trying to do. Have a peek:

I haven't had the chance to play Boltgun myself just yet, but I'm pleased to say that the reviews seem to be overwhelmingly positive so far. It really does look like Boltgun has managed to succeed as not only a Doom inspired shooter, but also as a faithful homage to the Warhammer 40k universe as a whole.

That said, there is one complaint I've seen repeated across numerous reviews, and that's the length of the levels. Some of them seem to run for far, far too long, so if you're planning to dive into Boltgun you might want to pace yourself lest you end up burning out before you finish burning all of the demons.

Whatever your plans may be, you can check out some of the player reviews, as well as learn more about Boltgun in general, over at Steam. For the Emperor!