Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine - Anniversary Edition

[i]This is a review of only the main campaign on Normal difficulty because I did not enjoy the game enough to attempt to play other modes or replay the campaign on harder difficulties.[/I] [i]Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine[/i] is a good game that occasionally pales on its own premise, especially for most of its final third. This is basically a horde shooter with occasional melee, and it's at its most fun when the protagonist, [I]Titus[/I], is given powerful guns, melee weapons, or a flying jetpack and mowing down hordes of [I]Orcs[/I] and [I]Soldiers of Chaos[/I]. There's a fairly well-conceived tactical element to the chaos: managing ammo, grenades, super meter, health, enemy prioritization, and positional awareness are key to survival. As fun as it can be at its best, the game has a number of issues: [olist] [*] You cannot hold all weapons at all times, and the game has a habit of forcing you to alternate through weapons mainly because you ran out of ammo. Issue is: there's no way for you to know if the weapon you're picking up is a good fit for the fights ahead, so you may occasionally end up in situations where your loadout is categorically ill-suited. [*] The previous issu…

Waaa'gh!!!! More Dakka! More Shooty!

For the emperor

Finished the campaign, not a big fan of Titus! I'm definitely going to grab Space Marine 2 in the future

A good legacy game. First played it as a kid back around 2016. Never got to complete it. Now I have.

The story is amazing, the gameplay is fun and the music is great. The side stories told by the servo skulls add much to the hopeless atmosphere of 40k that is often missing while playing as a space marine, really do recommend looking for them. The only big downside of this game is seen IF you've played Space Marine 2 first, as the sound design there is much better, making you seem quite light and your weapons weak in this one. PEAK.