I know this is over a year late but i’ve decided to review the game Space Marine. Now i liked this game and felt like reliving the missions over and over again, as it was one of the most satisfying games made in all of human creation. I may just be saying that from nostalgia though, i’ll just go play it again… *2 days later*
Yep its still bloody brilliant.
Having played this game multiple times i believe that the sentence that you just read sums up every aspect of the game:
- Story-bloody brilliant
- Combat-bloody brilliant
- Graphics-bloody and brilliant
The plot is as follows: you are captain Titus, this planet is being attacked by orcs, heres a gun, heres a chainsword, don’t stop untill you have made an international “orc burger” fast food chain.
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The environments are spectacular and grand, and unlike the golden giled cage that is the maps in COD they are not just good looking paintings to distract from the endless monotany of liniar chest high walls. All the maps are playable and awe inspiring.
The charectors are interesting and sutely unique, whilst being grounded yet over the top, allowing for lots of witty dialouge between the space marines, as well as signs of charector relationships. And befor i forget, when i say “witty” i mean actualy witty and not the “its a reference” americanised witty.
The gameplay is intuative and simple while not being boring. Every moment of combat is more fun than any mortal has a right to have. The missions are neatly split with a few turret and jet pack sections, which add to gameplay like spiking a glass of whisky with water from the fountain of youth. Every instance is well crafted, using weapons that chew through orcs as though they were bits of shouty green paper, allowing for body counts comparable to a robot tiger on a planet inhabited by slow bunny rabbits.
All of the death-sythes that you weiled are weighty and satisfying, making all your muscles pules with manliness whenever you see the next legion of green-skinned sacks of potential for death screeming towards you. And if the idea of using a melee weapon that would make Kratos giggle with glee, and a radioactive batman launcher to almost psychotically carve you way through 12 planets worth of so much metaphorical beef, does not appeal to you, then you good sir are a ponce.
The original non-regenerating health/regenerating shield mechanic spices up combat, making moments truly tense and difficult.
And while i’m on the subject of being difficult, the dificulty curve of this game is like running at the speed of sound into a titanium wall.
Oddly this is in a manner unexpected, usualy difficulty in games, for example deamon souls, comes from being a twig brushing leaves agenst a star powered god-dragon that spits exploding vials of anthrax.
However in space marines you play as an Ultramarine, an unstoppable living weapon that has the kill potential of a bomb that increases in power everytime it rains in Britain. So you would not expect the game to be at all challenging, like playing as the phyisical incarnation of death battling the deathly ill.
Wait a dam blasted minute i’m “the anime man” i should at least mention anime once, so ehem, the difficulty of the game is like yamcha from DBZ or Shinji from Evangalion trying to fight a stick insect.
Okay now thats done, alow me to continue.
As i said in theory the game should be as easy as breathing, yet somehow the game truly is difficult, and i have deduced why, even if you play as “super-saiyan gears 2 nine tails death god” eventualy you must stop to clean the orc guts from your chainsaw, you will very easily get swarmed and surrounded by foes of ever increasing difficulty.
Its not that indavidual enimies are tough just that when there are so many they make the population of russia india and china combined look like brumley, you are crushed beneath their corpses more than they actually hit you.
Now that i have sufficiently typed my fingers to stumps, lets talk about multiplayer! YAY
Co-op should be self-explanitory, more orcs, more marines, more fun
However the competitive is unique in that being late won’t get you killed. Allow me to explain, in most multiplayer games, for example Battlefield, you buy the game 3 months down the line going into a server match everyone has a batman launcher 5000 and you have a broken nail, trying to win will lead to you leaving with a severely spanked bum, so will playing space marine but everyone leaves with a painful arse. As all the gun choices are the same, and the matches in any maps will bend you backward and beat you with lead pipes.
Now the game has flaws and not saying them would make me less a reviewer and more a lady of the night.
So yea the multiplayer lags a bit and the hand to hand combat doesn’t work agents other marines, and the story assumes at least a basic knowledge of the 40k universe.
But you know what i don’t care, the game has enough redeeming features to fill the Marianna trench,
And as a final word, once an orc shouted “again stab me again” so i shot him, a feat so funny i wasted this last paragraph on it.
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