Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine

The willingness of titus was real special. To save the planet, titus, first had to get his vehical fixed (when you drive by a sun you cant stop for too long). So he took it down to the shop and found out it needed a new passenger seat. Titus said he worked alone, no need to replace it. And his dog (a 900lbs bridge dog) barked one time, which caused the Chandler in the shop to rattle.

This is the fully realised version of how I imagined the Warhammer 40K universe to look. Previously I had played Fire Warrior on the PS2, which is also an FPS game, but it looked a little bit flat. A long time ago I had also played Space Hulk (1993) which felt more like the board game and while it is a very good game it was in places dull to play.

Space Marine looks absolutely incredible, which is unsurprising given it is a late XBOX 360 title. It is arguably one of the best looking games on the system along with the two Crysis games. A lot of time, money and research has been spent in bringing the atmosphere of the game alive. The voice acting is of Hollywood standard, which also comes as no surprise given the cast involved.

The gameplay for me wasn't as fun as Bulletstorm, Crysis 2 or The Darkness. It is very good, but it was a bit repetitive and with 16 chapters often taking around an hour each it is a big game.

Overall this is a solid game, but like games like Castlevania: Lords of Shadow it just lacks the magic touch.

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.

Once again the developers behind a conle game think its OK to convert it to PC by just allocating the different buttons to (COMPLETELY!) random buttons around the keyboard. You cannot change the setup so they make sense, and most are very hard to reach with one hand on the keyboard. I paid for this game and I'm not sure I should have...after 3 really intense missions I'm stuck at the end of the third, mostly because it's not really fun to replay, replay, replay. Clearly another console game that COULD have been great, but at some level it was chosen to make it one of those "just hit a lot of buttons quickly", that are quite hard on PC because (read above :P). The graphics are cool though...

THQ and Relic have really captured the feel of the 40k universe here and to take on a project as big as this given the fan base from the table top game they have done an outstanding job. Campaign storyline is involving, and gameplay is excellent with the camera moving well during melee combat and a wide selection of ranged weaponary, and a good spread of foe types, mission objectives are varied and challenging. Multiplayer is equal in it's enjoyment offering already three different game types with more coming soon, and works very well in all, and the option to totally customise your characters armour and weapon loadouts keeps it interesting. Looking forward to seeing what DLC content is coming in the future