warhammer 40000: space marine
“Exterminatus”, the late-addition cooperative mode for Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine, will release October 25, publisher THQ said today. It had originally been scheduled for an “early October” release.
Until recently I was under the impression that Warhammer 40,000 was a tabletop war game played mainly by bookish and bearded nerds in comic shops and out-of-the-way conference rooms at sci-fi/fantasy conventions.
If you give me the option to make a pink and yellow Space Marine, I’m going to make a pink and yellow Space Marine.
Relic Entertainment has proven time and time again with its Dawn of War real-time strategy franchise that it has a deep respect for Warhammer: 40.000. Does that respect extend to the third-person shooter?
I might not know a Space Marine from an exploding squiq, but I know a true action hero when I ram his weapon down the throats of a couple thousand Orks.
Large and bulky like the mutated heroes of the game itself, the Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine collector’s edition could easily take down your average Ork. Let’s take a peek inside.
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine is an action shooter with weight. And that weight doesn’t come from just the screen-shaking heft of the marines you play, it also comes from the deep history of the nearly 25-year-old franchise upon which the game was built.
While its big, burly characters make it look like it wants to be Gears of War, Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine‘s core tenant is distinctly un-Gears-like: Cover is for the weak.
Proof positive that pre-release demos can make or break a game, my interest level in Relic Entertainment’s Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine went from zero to must-buy within 30 minutes of try-before-you-buy gameplay.