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In Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine, players traverse a tumultuous blend of technical hiccups, sparse narrative, and uninspired level design, mirroring the grim landscapes of its Warhammer universe.

The game is overall light on story; the Ultramarines are deployed to the forge world Graia to retrieve the Titan Invictus amidst an Ork invasion. Along the journey, encountering an Inquisitor psyker alters the mission's course, bringing about the involvement of Chaos Space Marines. Surprisingly, dialogue is limited, with long stretches passing devoid of conversation. Upon reaching objectives, story progression often amounts to only a few lines of dialogue. I honestly wouldn't be surprised if the entire game's script could fit on a two or three page document. Levels consist of linear hallways set in dark Imperial industrial environments, drawing inspiration from late 2000s third-person action shooters like Gears of War. Design aesthetics lean towards drabness, with foggy, monotonous color schemes dominating. Despite this, character design remains faithful to Warhammer lore, with intricate details depicting Ultramarines adorned with Purity Seals and Orks clad in makeshift armor.

Gameplay-wise, it's a console experience adapted to PC, featuring floaty movements, imprecise targeting, an oversized reticle, and bullet spread hindering precision. Tutorial prompts reference controls, such as "mouse button 5" which highlights how much of an afterthought that this port is. Technical issues, including launch crashes and memory leaks, persist, requiring external fixes put together by fans (thanks Adrian Lebioda). The game's re-release as an anniversary edition at its current price seems unjustified given its state.

Despite the appealing premise of embodying a space marine and unleashing destruction upon the Ork horde, the game's stability issues, pricing, subpar plot, and console-like gameplay decisions prevent me from recommending this game.

One of the few good 40k games.

DEATH TO THE HERETICS!!!

I refuse to support Warhammer after they released and are standing to Graham McNeil's Lord of the Lance book despite it having Knights imagining f ing the "pretty boys" they had seen. Dont support a company who supports putting pedo material in their books!!

Due to Games Workshop's newest stance of going woke, I will be transitioning to a different IP.

Wokehammer

The game doesn't work on modern machines. It's a known issue that it will crash after the first mission. The only way to fix this is to download a save file set after the first mission. None of the other fixes on PCGW work (Vsync, lowering settings, setting CPU cores to only run on 2). Its a shame, because I've heard its a good game, but as it stands the game shouldn't be for sale.

ANTI-FURRY

I thought this game was below average on console, and it is still below average on PC. The sequel will be terrible because of the writers they have chosen for the project. I decided to take that game off of my wishlist and wanted to remind Sega and Relic that Space Marine 2 is going to take a MASSIVE loss in sales. Mostly for siding with the deranged fools that are changing the whole hobby. This game is just a below average Gears of War clone, the sequel will be the same, with poorer writing.