The game appears to have built up its various mechanics then draped formula content around it until the final stretch, at which point Chaos enter the fray and, while you're still not doing anything that you haven't already been doing for hours, the stakes and ferocity of the games step up considerably. The same can't be said for the sequel-hungry cliffhanger everything wraps up around, sadly.īack to that real problem, though - while not an especially long game (I polished it off in around 10 hours, though men of superior button-pushing are claiming 8), at least half its length is essentially repetition. That said, if you're of a mind to hunt down the audiologs scattered around the level, which isn't a thrilling task in and of itself as all it involves is checking empty corners, the backstory's much more fleshed out, adding valuable context and nuance to the growling of the core characters. It's not exactly short on reverence for the source material, though alas it does ultimately turn it to a rote tale with a straightforward twist that anyone with even a passing familiarity with 40K will spot from a lightyear away. In fact, the amount of ornate detail and a subtly painted look to the characters' armour makes Space Marine the closest we've come yet to Games Workshop miniatures come to life.
It looks spectacular, and there's no question to my mind that this is 40K's grim'n'bloody universe in its most visually pleasing digital incarnation yet. Those ideas and features: alternately smacking and shooting a shitload of Orks.
Space Marine front-loads most of its ideas and features, makes you love 'em, then mercilessly and mystifyingly repeats them for several hours. Me? I was shouting 'Chaos Space Marines! Not more bloody Orks! C'mon, please! I know they're in here somewhere! Hurry up!' At other times, I was yawning my way through yet another near-identical, closed environment, fighting another vast pack of largely identical Orks who were, yet again, pointlessly shouting 'Space Marine!' at me every five seconds. I like the game - at times, I like it a lot. At times, it's difficult to conjecture exactly what all those long months went towards, at least in terms of the singleplayer campaign. Space Marine spent around four years in development. This is only for the singleplayer campaign, however - I'm hoping to turn my attention to the multiplayer shortly. Hello! I've spent my waking hours since yesterday afternoon battering my way through Relic's Ork-mashing sci-fi action game Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine (which was released yesterday in most of the world but not until bloody Friday in the UK) and am now ready to empty the contents of my head all over you.
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