Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine
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Space Marine is an upcoming 3rd-person video game, which will be featured on PC, the ECKSBAWKS 360 and the PS3. It's genre being a hybrid of shooting and hack and slash.
Plot so Far
The story is set in the forgeworld of Graia in the star system of Emperor knows what. It is being invaded by Orks who wish to steal all of its weapons and ammunitions. But apart from that, their real objective to steal a Warlord class battle titan. Captain titus and a company of Ultramarines are sent to stop this from happening.
Recently, it has been revealed that the Forces of Chaos will also have a part to play. So far, it is mentioned that their goals are shrouded in mystery, and Captain Titus has a role to play in their plans. A questionable Inquisitor being there (suggesting questionable experiments to the Ad Mech) before Titus or even the Ork waaaagh says that theres even more than Titan hi jacking happening.
Gameplay
No cover system. As relic man says: "cover is for pussies". Space Marines are too awesome to be cowering behind cover . As a Space Marine, you are given enhance regenerative abilities, Iron Halo shield and three bars of health Green,Orange and red. Their are also brutal killings which the player could do to make the npc's deaths more humorous, To regain health like a man and to show-off the awesomeness of the angels of death. Since you are playing as a Space Marine (And better yet, a veteran of 200 years of battle) you could easily kill thousands of orks with just a swing with your chainsword. Orks are generally the zerg rush type of enemy. The majority of their tactics is to directly charge at you.
The Forces of Chaos are mentioned as being a lot tougher. Traitor guardsmen are still as weak as ordinary ork sluggas and shootas, but are more skilled in tactics and can organize and plan strategies. Corrupted Psykers can easily kill you from afar if your not careful, and can spawn enemies. Khorne Bloodletters can teleport, making it hard for you to shoot them, and have massive amounts of damage. Chaos Space Marines, although in smaller numbers of two or three, are more dangerous due to them being corrupted space marines.
Further gameplay is revealed that Space Marine will feature a Fury system. The Fury system allows you to slow time when aiming a ranged weapon or to unleash a devastating melee attack (provided that you filled up the fury bar by killing enemies of course)
While you first start out with a bolt pistol and chainsword, weapons can range from bolter rifles, heavy bolters, plasma guns to thunder hammers. Recent screenshots have shown that you will also be able to use jump packs.
Characters
- Captain Titus - A Captain of the Ultramarines Chapter. He is sent with his Company of Ultramarines to prevent the an Ork Waaaaghhh !!! from looting a forgeworld. It should be noted that his character was first seen as a bald space marine and later on as having a shaved head in the early trailers, until finally being a space marine HAIR-etic. He is voiced by Mark Strong. Yes...HE"S VOICED BY FUCKING MARK MOTHERFUCKING STRONG![1] Considering known hair-etic Force Commander Hair Gel's escapades didn't end well, one wonder if Titus will either be killed or be corrupted to the forces of Chaos. He will probably become /tg/'s new spiritual liege.
- Sidonus - Grumpy old Ultramarine Veteran too scared to go under the knife for a bionic eye. Hes Leandros's mentor and probably his squad Sargent as well.
- Leandros - A newly recruited Ultramarine clinging to his shortened copy of the Codex Astartes the whole single player. Being the younger of the group, he has a higher chance of becoming corrupted by chaos and go traitor.
- Lieutenant Miranda Nero - The only loyalist petty officer left of the Imperial Guard on Graia that hasn't been thrown to the soul grinder of chaos. She is also the only other Guardswomen in all of 40k, Governor Ellena Derosa getting the privilege of being the first. But Mira is the first guardswomen to have Pauldrons of the emperors holy cardboard.
Things that rock
- Seemingly a better game unlike that Other game where you play as a Space Communist who is apparently a one man army who could single handedly kill genetically modified super soldiers, a daemon prince and a greater daemon of Tzeentch. lolwut ?
- You get to play as a Space Marine
- Humorous amounts of blood, dismemberment and gore
- No casual difficulty setting
- Chaos Space Marines
- BLOODLETTERS !!!
- Mark Strong (Who you may remember from his previous roles from Kickass, Robin Hood, Stardust and Sherlock Holmes) as the voice of Captain Titus.
- Everyone is Alpharius
Things that Suck
- Ultrasmurfs
- Explaining things to the newbs
- They wanted to cast Sean Pertwee as one of the characters, but they already had enough VA's (Though they do express desire to cast him in the sequel).
- Fifthteen weapons reported in the alpha stages.
