3 years and 1700+ hrs later am still not bored of this game, so it's about time i did a review.


- The campaign is a lot of fun and has a great story, plus you will come to see the destrutive power of a single Space Marine and the weapons they own, by fighting wave after wave of Orks plus Chaos Forces. (don't want to give too much away)
- The only bad thing for me was the difficulty, hard feels way to easy i've gone through the campaign on hard and only died once (sneeky Bloodletters) other then that it's brilliant.


- A bit like the Campaign as you fight wave after wave of Orks, but now you can do it with friends plus you have full freedom of which class and weapons you want to use (when you unlock them that is)
- You are best playing this mode with friends as some public players like to show off and get as many kills as they can, this tactic is fine until the waves become harder and they end up dying a lot, then when all lives are gone they leave the game (lives are limited and you need them to respawn)


- First thing, if you are a gamer that cares about how many kills/deaths you get multiplayer is not for you, due to the amount of lag and sometimes hackers you will end up dying a lot, but if you game for fun then this is perfect for you even if your not W40K fan.
- You can pick from 3 class types, Tactical Marine, Devastator Marine or an Assault Marine, each class has different weapons and perks so you can spend a lot of time experimenting to find out what suits you.
- There is also an awesome customization feature, you can pick from many Chapters/Warbands or even create your own, you can also unlock different armour pieces for your Space Marine and Chaos Space Marine (so you could run into battle as a pink Chaos Marine with spikes)


This game offers you something new from other shooter games, you can fly around the map as an Assault Marine or overwhelm your enemy with Heavy firepower the choice is yours.
Single Player: 10/10
Multiplayer: 8/10 Host migration is a pain, it can make some matches unplayable.

Thank the Emperor without him humanity would of fallen a long time ago

EDIT: 03/05/2015
Bin asked a lot lately if mulitplayer is dead, you should be able to find matches for Seize Ground and Annihilation but Capture the Flag, Capture and Control plus Dreadnought Assault are dead for now, but there is a group called Red Thirst that gets players together to play these modes so if your interested in joining, the group is on my profile.

DO NOT BUY THIS FOR $60.

This is the OLD game, and they increased the price to sucker folks into thinking it's the upcoming game. This game was on steam for TWENTY DOLLARS for the past 5 years, often on sale for less than 5.

DO NOT BUY THIS FOR $60

BROTHERS WE ARE GETTING A SEQUEL! THE EMPEROR HAS HEARD US! THE EMPEROR PROTECTS!





Edit: Thank you for the awards and the votes, brothers. Let us not be tempted by the influence of the Warp's insidious 'hype'. And pray to the Emperor that his Techpriests of Focus Entertainment will deliver the sequel to vanquish the Tyranid scum.

Space Marine is everything you need it to be: a cheesy story where you play as the stoic Ultra Blue SPAEZ MARHEENS and engage in combat that switches between third person shooting and hack and slash action almost seamlessly.

There may never be a sequel to this game, and maybe that's ok, because this is the kind of game where people will look back on and be like "yeah that game was awesome".

EDIT: THERE WILL BE A SEQUEL.

EDIT 2: Don't pay $75 for this game. It wasn't even that much when it came out lmao. Get it on sale. It's a ten year old game.

It's super fun. Heaps of replayability. But not $75 worth lol

EDIT: In the biggest plot twist of the year, we are getting a sequel.


It's a violation of human rights that we are never getting a sequel to this game.

Welcome to Warhamer 40k, or as we'll call it w40k, it has six races, each with their own name classes, units, and heroes. And then we have the.... <pause and slide that to the side.>

This is Warhammer 40k, but it's not. Instead this is a third person hack and slash, with ranged weapons where you play a Space Marine (or an Ultramarine) and fight through 18 stages. It is in the 40k universe, but it doesn't require the massive wealth of knowledge or fandom most of these games seem to expect.

And you know what? It's the first Warhammer 40k game I really really enjoyed. Dawn of War is a fine RTS if you really want to play an RTS, or really want to deal with that complexity, however Space Marine brings the user into the universe and creates a reasonable scope of the world for them to enjoy.

It avoid overly repetitive gameplay, it avoids the massively complex world of 40k which will overwhelm all but the few fans of sci fi with the ability to comprehend it all from a game, and focuses on just a single adventure in that universe.

And it works! The gameplay is fantastic, where the main character has a decent amount of options. You can choose from three weapons, and a number of ranged weapons (carrying up to 4 at a time, with I believe at least 7 different weapons, not counting full upgrades). The enemies is a little similar, for a majority of the game you will fight the orks (one of the six races) but there's enough variety in location, ability and configurations that it rarely feels like a slog, surprisingly so.

Even the graphics hold up well for a 6 year old (last gen) game. The story is solid. It's not going to win awards, but it at least has a driving force and while it does dig a bit into the lore (at least i think it does) isn't a distracting trip. If you like the lore, I'm sure you'll get a lot out of it, but if you don't know the lore at a deep level (like me) you'll really enjoy the story.

Overall I like the game, I like the game a lot more than quite a few game. It's definitely trying to be a bit like that "god of war" style that everyone was playing at the time, quite a bit of hack and slash is required, though this game finds a solid balance between third person shooting and melee fighting and it's pretty glorious when you have it right. I recommend it, and considering it's often on sales, it's a great time to pick this up.

Whoever decided to up the price of this game needs to be thrown directly into the eye of terror. BUY THIS ON SALE OR FROM A DISCOUNT RETAILER!

Thank you Humble Bundle!

I rather enjoyed this and I must admit, having played a number of Warhammer 40k games throughout the years this is the only one I've gone through that captured a fraction of the atmosphere and "flavour" of the 40k universe. It's not something I can easily describe, but clearly the developers Relic have an understanding of the universe and the factions within. For the most part the characters, the way they are written and the way they reacted to the games plot and situations was very .. "warhmmer" and it was stronger for that in my mind.

One thing this game absolutely nailed was the scale. The size of the Space Marines versus normal humans, the power armour was correctly proportioned and detailed in all the rght ways, the weapons are the correct sizes, the vehicles, buildings, aliens... everything was bang on as far as I am concerned when it came to scale.

In truth I can't really fault the game too much. It had to step away from the lore a bit to fit in game mechanics, for example a Space Marine Captain (leader of a 100 strong Space Marine Company, veteran of centuries of warfare) wouldn't turn up to battle with just 2 fellow Space Marines in tow.. armed with a standard Bolter and Combat knife, but that had to be done for progression of course... by the end of the game I had a personal force field (Iron halo), a selection of around 7 different firearms, and a choice between a chain sword, power axe and a blummin' two handed thunder hammer. Not really correct in the world... but makes sense in a game.

The game itself was good fun, melee combat was well done, although an ability to parry would have been nice, and the gun play felt very heavy and dangerous. They got the feel and sound of a Bolter just as I imagine it, bang on the money, and at times I really felt like I was playing a real Space Marine from the stories and board games.

The main critism has to be the checkpoint system. Some poorly placed checkpoints sapped a little joy from the experience, mainly the one's that were frequently placed before an unskippable in engine cutscene... which generally pre-empted a major engagement you could easily lose.... only to then repeat the whole scene again when the you're plonked back at the checkpoint. That wasn't good.

However that last point aside, an enjoyable game and glad I finally played it!

I love this game, but what the hell are they trying to pull, marking the price up from $20 to $60 on an old ass game?

Listen, Games Workshop - or whoever was backing this idea - we know that you love money, but ffs, this is just scummy.