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.
Origami Killer
lol i had warhammer, with the sapce marines, i would do the white and black ones, i had a tank and lots of stuff for them, ill keep my eye on this