Warhammer 40k Space Marine Review

 Today I'm writing a review for Warhammer 40000 Space Marine. This game was published in 2011 for PC, Xbox 360, and PS3. The game was developed by Relic Entertainment and is a third person action shooter. The game takes place in the fantasy world of warhammer 40k. You control Captain Titus, the leader of the a squad of Ultra Marines, and you have to defeat Orks that have invaded the planet Graia.

Story
As I said before, the game takes place in the planet Graia that has a lot of manufacturing factories that build weapons, vehicles, etc. But the main thing built there are the Warload Class Titans which are huge robotic combat vehicles. The orks now want to capture these Titans. You controlling Captain Titus have to stop them. As the game goes on, you get a message from Inquisitor Drogan which seems to be hiding from orks. Captain Titus and his squad go to his hiding location and find out that he has a weapon that can destroy all orks; a psychic scourge. They then go to where the weapon is and find orks there trying to capture the weapon. Captain Titus fights the ork but the weapon accidentally unleashes a huge amount of energy which does not effect Titus. The squad then find a location to detonate the weapon but when they do so, it has unexpected results. It doesn't kill the orks but it opens a warp gate to the psychic realm of chaos. It's then clear that the enemies that Drogan was hiding from weren't orks but were chaos space marines. The ultramarines escape, making a plan to destroy the warp gate using the titans. After destroying the gate, one of the ultramarines is kille by the chaos lord Nemeroth and he stills the experimental weapon. After that Titus and the other Ultramarine decide to stop Nemeroth before he turns himself in a Daemon Prince. He uses the help of Blood Raven Space Marines and also other UltraMarines. He then defeats Nemeroth when falling from a tower and then destroy the energy device by breaking it using had and again the exposure doesn't effect him. After he is saved, he is arrested by Inquisitor Thrax on the fear he might be corrupted by the chaos forces because that's the only way he could have survived the exposure. At the end of the game we see a computer message showing that the planet is under quarantine and capiran Titus is under interogation.
The stoy is fairly good. It has some good twists that are used in mostly all games these days such as death of an important person. Still it's not truely original but it shows a great usage of warhammer series and the Ultra Marines that are really cool.

8/10

Gameplay

The game is a thirs person shooter. The player can do both ranged attack and melee or close combat. The ranged attacks are using diffrent guns that you find through out the game. You start with a regular bolter and a sword. Other weapons are Relic Chainsword, Power Axe, and Thunder Hammer for melee and Vengance Luncher(Grenade luncher), Stalker Bolter(Sniper), Heavy bolter(Heavy machine gun) and etc. You can also use accesories such as Jump Pack, Grenades or power armors. Upgrade mostly come in good times after or before a big fight. The game doesn't have a cover system which really sucks and could have made it a lot better. Each melee weapon has a special combo which you can use. There is also stuning enemies which makes them dizzy and in that time you can perform a special attack which adds health to your health bar. The variery of combos are very small so after half way through the game, you keep repeating everything all over again. The game features fury mode and when you activate it, it gives you more power and your attacks are stronger. Also when you zoom, it slows down time which is usefull sometimes. There is also the power armor that gives you an extra armor.
The maps are good but you spend a lot of time just walking through locations and buildings and that is really boring. 

Enemies are Orks and Chaos units. Orks have around 5 diffrent enemies like gretchins or heavy weapon orks or even rocket lunchers. Chaos are also around 5 groups like daemons or Chaos space marines. Difficulty is good. It's not really easy and its not painfully hard. The multiplayer mode is really fun. You have 3 classes; Assault marines wear jetpacks that confer high mobility, and have a good range of melee weapons to choose between; Devastators are slow but have access to powerful heavy weapons; Tactical troops carry rifles and are balanced all-round.

Overall, the gamplay is designed good but gets boring when you get half way through the game. Variety of weapons are good and multiplayer is really fun.

8/10

Graphics

  The graphics is in medium to high level. The detail of the main character is pretty high but the other UltraMarines have a little bit of detail and have medium graphics. The enemies are also detailed poorly and don't have high graphics. The locations are designed nicely and with great details. The frame rate is good and never gets low. Overall the graphics are good but some stuff are designed poorly.

8/10

 Warhammer Space Marine is a great change in the warhammer series. Changing from strategic game to a 3rd person shooter. The game works good for most of the time but gets boring after a while. The game is a good game and fun. I recommend it to other people to buy and play.

Overall      8/10