If you’re one of the new breed of puritan who venomously spit at the very concept of the generic ‘space marine,’ you better look away now. Go read the other fifty-seven entries in this list. Trust us, you’ll probably find something to like in the cache of future gaming trinkets.
Warhammer 40,000 doesn’t just have one space marine, the bloody thing is overrunning with the cocky, muscle-bound, slightly dim, cardboard-cutout cosmonauts. In fact, look up, they’ve even managed to infect the game’s official title!
Based on the popular table-top game of the same name, Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine features a squad of four weaponised hard-asses, suited up and ready to stop an invasion of a factory-encrusted Imperial Forge World; manufacturing complexes responsible for the construction of hardware used by the Imperium of Man. One such piece of particularly sought-after military ironmongery is the Warlord class Battle Titan, a bipedal shitkicker the size of a skyscraper and twice as expensive. A bit short on space-bucks, a renowned series evil-doer – an ork Warboss – plans to simply waltz in and make off with one. So, Metal Gear Solid with space-pigs. Got it.
It’s difficult to know why exactly Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine has featured so highly on our list. Maybe we are all closeted Space Marine fanatics (doubt it), or perhaps just simply believe Relic Software, old hats at the W4K franchise, having given us the wonderful Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War back in 2004 and numerous expansions since then, might surprise us with a well-wrought third-person RPG next year. Either that or we’ve been secretly building miniatures in TSA Tower’s basement in the wee hours of the morning, our arcane fixation kept under wraps – until now.
moshi
I’m excited about this game, tried and failed in my school days to paint the figures neatly then just got bored playing the game so this would be a nice to play without all the hassle.
iiekka
dawn of war is worth a look if you havnt already played it. ill be keeping my an eye on this one sounds good so far.
Teabags
I used to play the tabletop for a short while and Space Marines were one of my armies of choice. Though their name instantly issues a gaming stereotype, I always remembered the Space Marines in 40k to be extremely well spoken and somewhat religious.
shields_t
I only noticed yesterday there’s a film coming out (presumably at the same time) called Ultramarines: A Warhammer 40,000 Movie .
moshi
Could be awesome
shields_t
Hope so, though the CGI looks comparable to a game cutscene.
Sympozium
Warhammer is interesting I have two on Playstation and PSP…. so I guess I must try the Dawn of War demo
Charmed_Fanatic
haha my friend will be very happy about this game
YOURMUMANDME
I used to dabble with 40k when I was a kid, Apothecary were my fave.
I used to hacksaw parts off of Titan Legions figures and stick them onto 40k marines, like the Frankenstein of Warhammer ! Mwuhaha
yogdog
I collected it until recently, still got it all boxed up here :)
I’m a stalwart fan of relic and their work (Homeworld, CoH, DoW), so I’m expecting good things from this, it’s in my top 10.
YOURMUMANDME
I must admit I’m looking forward to this too, I would trade this and 90 of the other games for a Talisman game though. That would be epic.
Grey_Ghost13
Armour Penetration +4!
TheShepanator
I thought 40k space marines were suppost to be highly intelligent? I loved Dawn of War so much I’m going to play it now, I was really into modding it, back in the day.. :3
mcduff1979
im looking forward to this game alot
An-dz
I saw somewhere that in this game that you can run through enemy cover and curb stomp people