Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine

It's rare that you love a franchise, you love a game or a comic book and you want a movie adaptation and you get exactly how you liked it to be. That doesn't happend very often. Given the fan base from the tabletop game, THQ and Relic have done a fantastic job taking on a project this size and capturing the essence of the 40k universe. The campaign's plot is engaging, the gameplay is superb, with a good variety of ranged weapons, a good variety of enemy types, and challenging and varied mission objectives. The camera moves smoothly during melee combat. With three distinct game types already available and more on the horizon, multiplayer is equally enjoyable. It functions flawlessly overall, and the ability to completely customize your character's armor and weapon loadouts keeps things fresh. Anticipating what DLC content will be released in the future.

This game was worked on by those who helped make Gears of War and God of War. You can feel the vibe from these two games in this one. It's a ton of fun.

If you want some deep story go elsewhere, this one is straightforward and is just about you, the player, being a badass Space Marine.

The weapons feel good to use and there is enough variety in them that you can have solidly different play styles.

I highly recommend this if you just want to chill out, chainsword some orks and have a little demonic fun.

Chainsword go Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

When I heard that a new game was coming out, I decided to play it again to remember the first game. I played it years ago and frankly I didn't think there was anything worth remembering about it. The maps are a bit too small and limited. This makes the game too linear compared to similar games. It's an average game except that the graphics look horrible nowadays and the AI companions are useless. It can be played if you like hack and slash games and if you are interested in the Warhammer universe like me. The graphics of the upcoming second game look nice, but it's unclear how story-driven it is. From what I've seen from the gameplay videos, it looks more like a boring online game. I hope it's not just online focused. There's a lot of content in the Warhammer series, but we haven't seen a game in any game genre in years that really uses it in the right way.

Space Marine is about as simplistic as current generation games get. As Captain Titus (Mark Strong, the narrator of Who Do You Think You Are?) all you really do is go forward and shoot/duel, and it's a long game with nothing much sustain the many miles of bad road. For a 3rd person shooter it's basic stuff. Set on a distant planet filled with Orks it is your duty to wipe them all out. The levels/chapters are very slow, with huge, cavernous empty spaces and bombed-out buildings that offer no interaction other than occasionally opening a door or elevator. Half of each chapter will involve you doing nothing but moving forward.

If it were not for the Warhammer brand name this game would be the very definition of shovelware. I played it right to the end, unlocking 34% of the trophies, but to get the platinum you'd literally have to spend over 100 hours playing this game. Quite frankly, I don't want to know anybody who commits that amount of time to a video game, or indoor activities in general.

Graphics B Sound B Gameplay C Lasting Appeal C-

It's a solid game that I think needed more in the story and character department.

The reason I think it needed more is, most of the gameplay is Silent, they don't really talk to each other that much, I really want some more characterization between the space marines, it just feels so hollow when plots stuff happens in the later half, because so much of the game is in silent , and when they talk it's mostly just, oh commander killed some orc we have to do the objective.

But the Architecture and the scale of it all, does feel really Warhammer like buildings that are so tall. It's hard to see the sky and the rooms that are just so big it has the Towering effect that Warhammer architecture have.

I play the game on hard, so the difficulty was a bit weird because I think the game want me to go in melee and get my health back, but because of some of the Orcs have projectile weapons and grenades its very hard to do it, without dying, so most of my gameplay was about standing in the back shooting them, because going in melee was suicide.

And the music was just there, I think I have been spoiled by the more electronic soundtracks of Warhammer games, because this one was just Symphony Orchestra stuff and load me to sleep.

I remember playing this game in 2012, thinking it was a fun and really nice experience, especially because so much of the gaming landscape was third person shooters where we will be hiding behind walls, but nowadays it just feels okay still fun still to appreciate by Warhammer fans, but it has certainly lost a lot of its punch in the years.